France is a country of luxury wages and antiquated jobs, swathes of it is run and there's lots to do with nobody doing it. It's a different place to the countries of Reagan and Thatcher with our peanut wages and spurious tasks, nobody can honestly claim the French don't need a kicking.
David Bowie. Famous people dying feels nothing like losing somebody close, apart from old David. There'll never be another like him all human history you know my view is that those born between 1940 and 1950 represent the zenith of human creativity, to have combined classic discipline with modern expression. They were the first generation to become free and the last generation to receive a proper education.
Most female employment exists on a spectrum between nursing and Harvey Weinsteins PA. Is there any merit in what she does? Did she make it on merit? Does her employment make the world a worse place? These are the questions that count.
On the other hand you’ll do better pretending everything happens for a magical reason around women. We can dream something up or else the unexpected would mean nothing to us, in no way would the unexpected be big enough a deal when we expect it.
The more you do the more things happen by chance. Fancy seeing you here out in the big bad world.
The less you do the more they happen by formula. In a bubble there’s less chance of anything happening by chance. Online ads really are targeted at you personally, there’s a steady erosion of coincidence and explosion in taking things personally.
And thats the wilderness definition of truth and justice. Trial by those closest to you was the way things were done before science and the law, society and the idea of neutrality.
The facts of the matter are clinically detached. You’re talking about triumph of the will where confidence is king. Whatever you say goes regardless of the facts.
And maybe that’s the point. We don’t always like the facts therefore we want to control the facts. Does my bum look the big in this? An echo chamber of esteem-boosting reassurance is being sought after here. It’s very personal and completely about favour, the opposite of facts.
There’s a whole world out there you cannot explain and you miss the things right there in front of you. The fact is that there’s never been a moment in history where you’ve known so little about the facts behind your immediate daily life.
Quality of life and life expectancy should creep up slowly as a culture accustomises itself to mod cons and choices.
Doubling the life expectancy of half the world when it still feels itself to be a peasant. That’s the problem. If industrialisation was a matter of centuries like it was in the west there wouldn’t be this problem where mod cons and choices are NOT second nature. Fast-breeding in the 21st century as though it was the 11th.
Respect is due regard for people and precisely what regard is “due” is open for debate. Unblinking reverence to authority is the reason the mafia and prison endlessly talk about respect, it wasn’t important leap forward to judge each case on its merits. To say an authority is illegitimate if it’s incompetent or to say that there’s a difference between fear and respect. Impartiality you don’t have to like(or dislike)something to respect it.
Criticism is necessary only when there’s a genuine rapport. You have a laugh together or there’s some sort of gentleman’s agreement, a shared understanding which means you don’t cry about it.
It’s not necessary in prison or anywhere where you’re suspicious of everyone you meet. You don’t criticise social death and you don’t criticise a frenemy. Wherever circumstance has unhappily thrown you together is a place to either hold your tongue or avoid direct conversation with anyone.
It’s a nice idea. A society of reasonable no-men with a sense of fair play.
However Marxism comes from criticism and overstating how fair people are actually going to be. Suspicion, bias and corruption rob criticism of its merits, will a person actually be equal opportunities offensive?
Children of single mums seem to have an almost boundless enthusiasm for what is their true calling. Competition and envy are weaker motives, passion is the reason to do anything. The nation may require an army of boring engineers but an upbringing of total mother means that no man loses his life in a field of engineering.
The upbringing of total father seems to work the other way. Duty or competition how you *decide* to act comes from the outside, you're put upon like in the army and you live how another man would live your life until you turn up to the office one day with a Kalashnikov and 500 rounds of ammunition.
And satanism is a real-life religion for an absence of hell on earth. Not feeling grateful for or guilty about the good life, the real world is more like Eden and you're here to say you made it in on merit. Deny god/blessing/luck/other as a means to take credit for your inheritance.
There's a reason why the boomers of 46 were exceptionally creative where the boomers of 64 are as mediocre as average. And the reason is merit, competence, structure, discipline and judgement. John Lennon was talented because he didn't grow up in the world of imagine, and that's the irony. To be a free radical required some sort of merit, it actually needs obstacles and difficulties and repression because overcoming these obstacles is the art. When everything is permitted there can be no art.
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RE: Yellow vest bank run.
France is a country of luxury wages and antiquated jobs, swathes of it is run and there's lots to do with nobody doing it. It's a different place to the countries of Reagan and Thatcher with our peanut wages and spurious tasks, nobody can honestly claim the French don't need a kicking.