Probably not but just because it doesn't appeal to me. The modern world would never have got started without the gun. The British redcoats beat the zulus because they were hard? No. Rifle beats spear. All the laws that we have are ultimately enforced by the violence of the state, the police are equipped to take down criminals in an unfair fight. I don't think they'd be able to keep order in a fair fight.
If we were that tribal then we'd dead by 35 anyway. Lockdown was torture but we wouldn't have done it if we weren't civilised. It was a very expensive insurance policy for a very precious people. Second nature to have done it. China on the other hand is evil.
Help an old lady cross the road and there'll be daggers from all the traffic you've stopped. No good deed goes unpunished which is why to do good is not enough, the good must be hard, really really hard.
And obviously there's irony in that because it's not actually a benefit to be obese. Obesity is a new normal that may garner softer treatment but that can only render anyone with less will of their own. Always the path of least resistance which is not necessarily a good thing although it be normal
Right and wrong is often a question of usual versus unusual. Smokers are persecuted because it's no longer normal, but being fat is normal and this worse vice is met now with acceptance rather than classic shaming - there are no pictures of little starving kids and a dying rainforest on your burger, or a picture of your rotting internal organs.
More than a goal I don't know if being easily offended is just the natural course of development. My cat was basically fine after being hit by a car and losing a leg. No I just think civilisation is unnatural and when it peaks we get offended by anything. I think of it as the supreme inorganic more than an active conspiracy to take offence.
And the plan was working beautifully until covid came along. But now they've adopted the wrong plan it is extremely difficult for a fascist to change its mind. They're coming a cropper of their own fascist design for life in zero covid. Once fascism starts to go wrong it cannot be righted but the west can go wrong and become right again because we accept being human.
And that's really the main problem with woke. The fact that it is Marx but it isn't Marx. Proper Marxism might not work but at least it understands the necessary preconditions of everywhere feeling like London, Paris and New York. Marxism anticipated a world where work was hardly work at all and wealth was so easy to get that it became practically worthless. In that context the rootless cosmopolitans can do what they do, no limits.
And then there's Donald Trump of course. That's the whites finding a flamboyant man of their own, but I'll tell you what's wrong with it. Living vicariously through him, we don't really want a president Trump what we want is whites to be more like him before we die of woke anxiety.
To answer your question it's the gays and the blacks as the sole free members of the free world because they exercise their newfound freedoms. The rest don't really bother in fact they're more likely to feel guilty for the fact they ever were free. There's just one black guy commanding the room of white whimps who still think this man who dominates them socially needs more encouragement as they say, should I sit here? Should i sit there? Did I use the right word? Did I ask the wrong question
Yes, and I think that's why we have to fake it until we make it. I will go to the ball even though I don't really want to, being at the ball will make me feel a whole lot differently.. perhaps
And what I suggest to our erstwhile progressives is to read something of history because progress is not a linear trajectory that twirls towards freedom for all. The 19th century was considerably more conservative, much more repressive, than the liberal optimists of the 18th century. History moves in cycles and this is one thing the Chinese get right.
One example of jist how much people really don't believe in human equality is queueing up 48 hours for the queens corpse. It wants to stick to what it knows ee by gum. Take a look at that rainbow flag and the lady doth protest too much, methinks. It flies in the face of the way things are going, this is undeniable.
Suffice it to say that as we become more like the developing world it will come with less of the childless, work a day for world peace brigade. All the grown ups living off the cosmic money energy derived from being so much richer than the rest of the earth is a road coming to its end. There won't be that level of privilege and superfluousness to sustain woke.
And there are other examples. Tony Blair's son, in stark contrast to his dad, maintaining that a great many universities that used to be an indoor swimming pool should be bulldozed, bulldozed and replace by apprenticeships. This would inherently reduce woke in favour of practical realities. We need a degree in secular religion to get a job in bookkeeping? Do we really? All this is going to die away along with the parasitic class of fake teachers that it employs.
If you actually look your neopuritan creed is losing the fight to worldly reality. One example right now is Keir Starmer lifting the immigration policy of the labour party from UKIP.
And another reason is the aging population. Liberalism isn't going to work without an actual baby boom which you can't get without being more conservative. What we experience now is an aging population (conservative), a poorer population (conservative), and a less white population (conservative). There's no way of escaping the reality.
We all suffer though because of what they could have been. They've taken people's ability to do anything in the real world and replaced with a secular religious education, but neopuritan piety doesn't bring home the bacon.
And where does it end? The lockdown generation has a million times the ammunition. When kids today come to power I hope they nail the neopuritans to the wall
Well it would be nice to find a species like that. Maybe if they evolved without the food chain the problem would be solved. In this world peaceful are the ones who get eaten, and a dog eat dog world working in telesales amongst the privileged people ever to have lived.
Well you could commit suicide but no, we are connected to this life, this time and place, for better or worse. Did you choose where you were born? And if you could choose where you were born would you choose the last days of the house, the late-stage of a civilisation crumbling under the weight of its own silliness and decadence? No, we are connected to our ghoulish has-been dying society for better or worse.
Always remember that there is someone in a worse situation than you. Don't look up to the elite and sub-elite who will dismiss the gravity of your situation as they deal with the serious problem in their hands - covid and who spilt nail polish on the cat. Don't give yourself to this pitiful pitiless because you are lost if you give up on yourself as these people do.
There is always someone in a worse situation in life even if they cannot be found in middle class suburbia. Think of people from the olden days or those who cross the sea on a punctured Lilo, life could be worse.
The people who believe they can find themselves by not eating the same tea every night, or conversely, the people who believe that eating the same thing for tea every night means they're real.
And the reason why is because whether rich or poor the woman's prerogative still stands. There is no such thing as the man's prerogative no matter how rich his parents were. All men are working class when it comes to romance. You have to work, it is not a choice this is something you have to do. And more than this you're working for a reward that might never happen like you were self-employed. At any rate never date a woman expecting something to be got by it. The reward might turn out to be even better if you don't care what it is.
RE: would you work in the gun industry?
Probably not but just because it doesn't appeal to me. The modern world would never have got started without the gun. The British redcoats beat the zulus because they were hard? No. Rifle beats spear. All the laws that we have are ultimately enforced by the violence of the state, the police are equipped to take down criminals in an unfair fight. I don't think they'd be able to keep order in a fair fight.