Thinking works better when I write it down and I can be quite boring when I put my mind to it. The forums are a means to have less banter in my life, they really are.
Build a wildlife sanctuary and blow up a dog spa. I would prefer a future where the zoo isn't the only place to find an animal that isn't a cat or dog.
I suppose Britain won the moral victory because we were the first to stand up and didn't get any reward for winning the war. The biggest thing ever done in the history of Britain and dead in the water by the end.
The Russians suffered immensely but claimed half a continent.
And the Americans may not have suffered that much but the entire new world was better off 80% of the time. It took more for them to come down to the rest of us; the American self-help spirit set aside just enough to realise that you are part of this world. They ended up making a fortune from doing so - inherited the British empire that blessed America for decades to come they could live like Kings without being very much help to themselves - but it was never certain that they would help us in the 30s and 40s. They didn't have to.
Decadence is unavoidable being a scrooge doesn't actually reverse it. Inadequate healthcare doesn't make Americans immortal; the less support you have the stronger you are - this autistic line of reasoning is plain wrong and you will find that autistic Scrooge isn't attractive to men. This is a man's capitalist world but it would mean nothing without a woman or a girl.
I'm trying to explain why the survival instinct isn't kicking in and the best answer I can give is prosperity. Liberal capitalism and the more open, tolerant world won out but at the price of trust in the people around you. Capitalism is a sensible nerd system that you've always been bribed into by riches to forget that nobody really likes anybody, mass immigration is the completion of that but I doubt that even infinite prosperity could create a completely borderless earth.
I suppose that's the irony. Nationalism is unEnglish and all our children from America to Australia embody boundless independence the idea of belonging everywhere and nowhere. It's in our roots to not value our roots.
In a sense both sides are right. The liberals are right to say you're an immigrant and global capitalism was built by Britain and America. It's anglo to be liberal capitalist. Yet the lower classes are quite right to regard themselves in the position of the Sioux. It's no secret that 500 million in the west are to be driven into the ground. Do you wish to sustain American values when you are no longer the opportunistic coloniser but are instead the Sioux? Or will you rebel against western values and tighten the borders?
We should abandon the idea of moral progress because it’s a sham. The greatest men and women are all dead.
And instead focus on technical progress. If you want a second chance at multiculturalism and liberal capitalism you’ll need to conquer the stars. And if you find aliens eventually you’ll have to do to them what you did to the Sioux.
Liberal global capitalism is based on 19th century America; The immigrants endless expansion across an Indian burial ground, but the concepts of infinite growth and boundless opportunity need that space and in this century the only space to find that space is in outer space.
A lot of this depends on whether there’s another world war or not.
If there isn’t a war immigration will wide down without killing half the species there simply isn’t the room and resources on earth for that perpertual better life for your kids which is the cornerstone of immigration and open borders. Everybody having more stuff and that stuff meaning a lot to you is how you come to accept the nation of strangers. But I’m doubtful that there will be that much more stuff and even if there was it wouldn’t mean that much to you now. On the contrary sacrificing stuff to save your home seems to be the point of these popular uprisings.
There’s a difference between capitalism and anti-communism. Trickle-down and the Austrian economics that belie neoliberalism are not what the classic liberals believed in. Nor did they believe in globalism. King and country, the church there were many things they valued which today’s system of privatised Marxism and inverted communism do not. Greed is good, they never said that.
From America to Australia and New Zealand all peoples tried to restrict mass immigration they were just too weak to defend themselves.
Better to say that the British Empire and America ushered in a new normal where mankind is as loose as money and home is wherever the best opportunities lie. Capitalism is homeless but today capitalism is falling foul of nationalism - making it in on merit clashes with this land is my land. Capitalism says that you should be deprived of your home, property and country if another can tend to them better or cheaper than you can - at least that’s what Ayn Rand said. Adam Smith didn’t say that but before the 20th century people were lukewarm about the idea of capitalism being the sole of ethic society. They considered that unchristian and unpatriotic.
Yes. Partly for the money, I would use my eternal life to become the most powerful man on earth before trying to kill myself in boredom and despair. How immortal will I be? That’s the question.
Only that an undiagnosed oshcotic schizophrenic killed my friend and the girl he tried to save. They were all on a migrant labour camp in Australia which was probably the spark.
It is pretty old-fashioned to say it is your duty to stay alive. To be committed to your own life through thick and thin will eventually go the same way as marriage.
Our hedonistic and epicurean values imo make euthanasia almost inevitable and this will in turn amplify said values. It’s a hangover from old-fashioned values that we don’t allow euthanasia.
Anyway whatever small and silly thing is considered a problem in 2019 will be surpassed by the triviality of posterity as pain avoidance increasingly sets the tone of the times. To lose faith in we all have our cross to bear is part and parcel of our technological age, the AI running the world and systems taking the stress from the shoulders of an enfeebled human race.
It might lower the point in general where suicude is considered the answer.
The epicurean values of consumer society and the first world match the rate of suicide in deepest darkest Africa. None of the rich countries suicide the least and I believe it’s because epicurean values(pain-avoidance)consider suicide to be the answer. When you make suicide the answer in law you may assist suicide in another way which is by lowering the constitution of everyone.
My observation is that the flattery engenders a sense of worthlessness. The charmer is not necessarily angry so much as ashamed of how he lives today. The sorry state everyone forgives is not necessarily forgiven by him. Everyone around him has their standards fall but his don't - he might motivate you, but you demotivate him.
Partly the way women are and partly the way the world is although there's not a lot of difference between the two. Men are more radical because we're deep and narrow to drive a specific thing through with aspie bullishness rather than adhere to the status quo of moderation. Hard Brexit for example.
Women are the ones claiming the ability to manage everything. Women are the more right about everything, stake your life on nothing type of person.
Wire your electrics, plumb your toilet and plaster your house(badly), yes. But I'll never claim to have a knowledge of potpourri. Even the Jack of all trades isn't usually that broad and shallow.
In the modern world there isn't that need to beat women at womanly things like there is for her to beat man at manly things. He doesn't have to always be right in quite the same way as her.
And yet it revolves around jurisdiction and division of labour. I know that I don't know how my breakfast arrived and in my book you're not really independent unless you're surviving in the wilderness by the skin of your teeth. The first world context - the hand that feeds - means that the independent individual is a ridiculous, pretentious notion in real terms.
And here we are now to the division of labour. I admit my dependence on others concerning things I know nothing about but am overconfident regarding my own field. I don't like the first world woman's broad and shallow bluff of independence, if she needs me to reverse the car into the drive I'd rather do so than see it backed into a lamppost.
An undying belief that it'll be alright. You know how she says "it's fine" when that's the last thing it is - on the contrary the little thing in reality is a big deal to her - well I've come to notice that I do the opposite. The famous last words "it'll be fine".
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Thinking works better when I write it down and I can be quite boring when I put my mind to it. The forums are a means to have less banter in my life, they really are.