And besides I reckon your chaos would be a freedom. The beginning of modern society more and more dealing with people different to you are under a hands off state.
In the west the anarchists are more like confused dictators as Benito Mussolini said about anarchists. They like Putin and Trump and they want a state media that says everything they want to hear, and nothing else. Anarchists as confused dictators because of narcissism where everything has to be on your terms. They will be the end of free elections and of free speech, these are chaotic things to have that people in the west increasingly don't have the character or patience for.
I guess the only valid reason not to want the trains to run on time is if you know where they're going is really bad.
Although Brexit I don't think is a good example of that. It's more your neck of the woods where people are overly grateful for trains that run on time. Asian despotism could do with at least some exception to it's overwhelming need to obey.
Deep and meaningless. I don't want to spend my time in conversations over monster trucks or nail polish, but at the same I don't want to talk about philosophy with someone who should be talking about monster trucks. By that I mean I don't want to think about eternity for five minutes and have all the answers in an internet-assembled bedroom philosophy. I don't want to take myself so seriously that I'm mocking up show trials for my murderous fantasies based upon an internet assembled bedroom philosophy. Purely for its own sake it is actually interesting to think about think, no answer is better than the corrupt agenda of a selfish moral blank.
I can think of one reason - revenge. Brexit might not get us anywhere apart from putting a bomb under the lords and ladies of the realm. Blow their paradise away all the people who let us down so badly
And I would describe British humour as the type of clever silly that only works in a world of reason. Crystal skulls don't have any healing powers and that's the basis of British humour, to treat serious things ridiculously instead of taking a ridiculous belief seriously as an unsatirisable people.
I like to think of the gun as primitive but unnatural at the same time. Violence is the answer but not the answer for those who would naturally win at violence, it is something apart from beating a man until both you and the man are crying. It's rifle beats spear, it's the smaller you are the better, it's the reason for women in the army. Guns are the victory of small men.
Using a pen is quite intelligent, Decent. You have to be literate to read and artful to write something worth reading, powerful words don't come from just anyone.
The power of the gun is open to everybody, you don't need skill to fire a bullet or be hit by one.
I struggle to name 12 things we do say to be honest. Do you think a man even has a dozen demands? Women have the long list of demands they'll never tell
Brave new world, 1984, WALL-E. The world today is all and none of these things. Jury's out on trashing the planet but we look like the people from WALL-E. Not really happy but gorged on pleasure so much that we must float around on a giant mattress having lost the use of our legs.
And if nothing else brave new world is kinda on its way out with the war in Ukraine and today's gas prices. A world government has not been this far away since before 1945. 1945 to 2008 was the closest we came to brave new world so far, that cradle to grave generation that never had it so good and saw itself as kinda the end of history.
Today it's high gas prices and global instability, not a world government but a world of the Russians and the Chinese making their mark in a geopolitical landscape much more like 1984 than brave new world. Not a world government but two or three big power combines and a situation for the average man that becomes more difficult year after year.
Yes to the world around us, no to the people in this world. On the one hand the world is full of distraction a surplus of enjoyment, but on the other hand people are not very happy nor are they trusting. Having gorged on pleasure I don't see a people full of pleasure, but a people that would much rather be contrarian/different/interesting than happy per se. Distraction abounds but it is the yearning for recognition that sets the tone today.
Never has to be the answer to that. Many of my friends are married now and it feels like the lights going out, the sparkle in their eye banished to the ether, and the divorced? My god. You go to bed at night asking if you'll wake up in the morning and find everybody dead
Cats. I think of James Corden in Cats and these fists of mine are going to make everything better. But not really, I just play with the cat. The cat knows that there never is anything to worry about.
The monarchy is a different kettle of fish. A silent and unspoken bond that runs deep so that you do not have to promote your patriotism in the same way. Shared roots make it more like a family but a cult was a complete stranger 10 or 11 seconds ago. America behaves like it was a stranger 10 or 11 seconds ago and that deprived you of the wiggle. You have to seem exactly like the group you are in or that group will burst into pieces like a frog. America.
England has monarchists and this is why you can burn any British flag you've paid for. It's not a British flag, it's your own flag, you are burning your own property which is of course your liberty.
America with it's republic and land of immigrants has to go a lot further to prove it's not a traitor. Flag-waving and your recent obsession with bloodlines do in America what the monarchy does here. You can't set fire to your own flag, your own property, and we can't set fire to the queen. The monarchy allows us to disagree with Britain without being labelled a traitor, it allows us to be more individual, Americans have to crawl all over the flag or they're out of the club. Gooble gobble one of us because none of you are really, it's a nation of strangers held together by flag.
That's an accurate impression. For me this is a social media in which we can talk about politics away from friends and more distant family, people I have to work with and so on. It's like a poor man's UN that takes anyone so long as they're a bit knackered. It is the dark underbelly of democracy because it comes from those who have failed to find love amongst their own species - which could happen to anyone. Joining a specifically political forum couldn't happen to anyone, no, it takes a certain type of nerd to do that which I consider to be undemocratic and more like a caste system, too much of a niche.
They don't make old people like they used to but I think age still has its moments. Calm and collected if not at the same time confused by experience so completely different to the world today
I've been to two funerals and they were very different. It depends who's died and if that death could be considered a tragedy. The queen dying was an old lady who I don't know dying of natural causes. Less of an affair than when we buried our grandmother and we went bowling after that. But when those closest to you die heroically in their prime, this changes everything wall to wall tears.
Some combination of the powers that be and the average man. The patrician and pleb wrestle over exactly what usual is. The upper class rule through influence and the working class rule through force of numbers. How tall is tall? Taller than the average man, the average man is the measure of all things, however, the height of the average man is itself influenced by the powers that be. The plebs are getting taller by living more like the patrician class.
But then I think there's a little bit more to it. By nature we don't have wings and that's just it. By nature you still develop diabetes by being relatively less fat than the people around you. What society says is normal is doesn't actually mean it's right or wrong.
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RE: Say Anything
Why can't plumbers design plumbing fittings instead of someone's privately educated brother in law?