I reckon there'll be more reckoning. Recession, greater borrowing costs, and the downfall of the nation's pet grooming entrepreneurs bringing inflation down from 10% to something closer to 6%. That which deserves to die will die.
It's not the prestige so much as the alternative to a sedentary lifestyle. If you import food from the farthest corners of the earth it remains a poor substitute, you're still weaker. Wherever you are in the world animals turn useless things you can't eat into something you can. Meat and seafood are just the simplest way to do anything in the real world.
Lucky you. I got socks, t-shirts and a 72 hour calf bug. One day of flu-like symptoms followed by three days without the use of my lower legs, strangest flu I've ever had.
And not the only thing im sceptical about. Technology and aspects of the culture change so rapidly but we don't. If living forever could work would it even be desirable that it does? To me the world looks like it's going insane already as a kind of grandad blasted into space. No one will be able to relate to anything unless the future belongs to the young.
I don't know what the secret to eternal life is but it would involve the end of life as we know it. If we are to live forever no one new can be born and this is what we are heading towards.
But will it actually work? If throughout this century the nursing home we all live in turned into a morgue I would like to believe humanity could still breed. At least some way to give new life a chance even if it involves an artificial womb, you know how sceptical I am about cheating death forever.
The pandemic simply highlights what we're about in the modern world. The old linger and the young perish. Cheating death is the main focus of attention over giving birth. The average person gets older every year and through the pandemic this person is yet more old still. It was an exaggeration of prior trends where we rob youth of a future to grant old age a security.
But then it begs the question of whether you can cheat death forever? Will the human race eventually become so old that the population crashes?
Utopias. Don't change nothing, it's perfect. That's impossible in my opinion, I think we'd eventually kill ourselves if everything was literally finished.
For every winter baby trapped in a kind of grim fatalism there is a summer baby who believes they gave birth to themselves. The fortunate applaud themselves for the things beyond their control where the unfortunate exaggerate the things beyond their control to not blame themselves. Luck is denied by the fortunate, exaggerated by the unfortunate.
I agree. The nation should pay for national service before we even get into the details. I don't want to say that national service is a jolly or holiday but many people seem to enjoy it, a change is as good as a rest and for many national service actually is dropping into a stream of lower skilled work for a bit. And presumably this would mean a highly-skilled person gets paid more for national service than a fast-food worker performing the exact same service. It would mean more pay for the same work. And you're also right about the employers finding a way of making people redundant.
Technically not a miracle because it's not supernatural. However, the things that are really there really quite staggering when you think about them. The fact we can even have this conversation is like magic, the facts are stranger than the old fictions.
I don't know if anybody has seen the south park episode where Cartmen pretends to be disabled to compete in the special Olympics, and then loses. Well, that's what it would take for me to say she's faking it.
Not saying I'd let her go, I just wouldn't use a genuine illness to discredit her. But if they were using a genuine illness to discredit her then I start leaning towards miscarriage of justice. If there was a miscarriage of justice and they suspect she might be innocent, the system will conspire to disguise that she is. If she was released she'd most probably live longer and potentially garner more attention which would increase the authorities risk of being exposed
I would prefer to take a village as is, fit some solar panels and have a better go at the recycling.
I worry how a group of strangers become more local than local through the force of one man's will. I mean it will probably part ways after a couple of years like students in a dorm, but if it doesn't do that, how? It's all too intentional to survive without one man's dominating intent. No, I'd choose somewhere that already has a shared way of life in which cooperation, at least to a certain extent, is second nature. More local than local but it's actually a group of strangers? The missing ingredient is the fuhrer.
How many collapse into a cult, or simply collapse?
My impression is that these are something more village than a village, but nobody has any roots. Without the domination of one powerful personality, how would it stand?
I thought mass immigration was the only way rich countries can compete at football against the earthy of the world. Where did all of Frances 3 goals come from? By bringing in the colonial sweatfields.
So much for the road to Damascus. What about the road to Royston Vasey we're finally getting? Hallelujah! Let's just hope we don't get a visit from Pog or Lumpi - those soap-dodging road protestors, driving round in their converted ice cream vans, pierced eyebrows, pierced belly buttons, tongues, I bet they'd have their arseholes pierced if they could fit their cheeks in the machine!
I'd shepherd them into a tunnel, knock out all the props and see how they like being close to the earth then!
Well I welcome this new road and every blast of carbon monoxide it brings. If God had meant us to walk everywhere he wouldn't have given us little chefs!.. now for hymm 143 - drive them unto me, thy saviour!
And I guess that makes me not woke. I maintain that we can't compensate for all our biases conscious or otherwise, real or imaginary, the only thing we can do is give things time.
The whole thing must be slowed down back to the old days where it took 20 years to become a conservative instead of 5. The powers that be cannot be the same generation made by the Britain that murdered Alan Turing. It's farcical in its hypocrisy. Stop pretending to be something you're not.
That's the paradox. It takes less than ten years to become a conservative now, but how much do people change between 50 and 60? How long is 10 years when you've been alive for that long? Woke flies in the face of what the country is economically and demographically. And how is woke supposed to go down with the Muslims? The fastest growing share of the population. None of it thinks beyond the next 5 minutes, it all seems self-contradicting
I can't really detach woke from how society is in every other way poverty and intolerance. The 2010s came with an abysmal rise of unfreedom which is intensifying into this decade. I was watching balls of steel from the 2000s I thought to myself you couldn't do any of that today. We've got this impoverished, humourless, aging country with a rainbow flag flying from above that I really don't think can be real, it's going to tear itself apart.
Buy a new sofa. A comfortable place to sit down is the most important thing when everything is decaying. And then eventually the time comes to vote for a charismatic strongman from the far-right, you can't sit down forever.
And miscarriages, too, of course. If I had my way this is where all the miscarried and aborted babies would end up instead. And also a way to make people as healthy today as they were in the past. A womb as good as a 21 year old woman, less of the spergling sons of dusty womb mums. We need new wombs from somewhere in a world of 60 is the new 40, 40 the new 21. Posterity cannot just be the damaged and deranged offspring of the borderline sterile.
And I don't know how conservatives will respond. Sometimes maybe but often I don't think pro-life has anything to do with the welfare of babies so much the idea that life should contain the heaviest burdens. It's not killing the baby but at the same time you could argue that it's making it too easy for us, a bit too convenient and meet opposition because we are not by any stretch a young country. We'd have to be relatively young to believe that the future should be easier than it is today. Every generation sees itself as the end, as good as it gets so to speak, and when you have an aging population it will be. Our elders had it so much easier than their elders because they outnumbered their parents when they were young, but this is no longer the case.
Which admittedly flies in the face of depopulating the world. If women can effectively give their baby up for adoption at the point of conception then it means a lot of orphans. Sometimes dad might take the baby but yes there will be a lot of orphans in a world where no fetus is flushed down the toilet or scrambled with a coat hanger.
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I reckon there'll be more reckoning. Recession, greater borrowing costs, and the downfall of the nation's pet grooming entrepreneurs bringing inflation down from 10% to something closer to 6%. That which deserves to die will die.