The eccentricity and diversity. There's more variety between two villages in the same country than there is between New York, London, Sydney and Paris and the standardised modern individual they produce.
Moses/Muhammad are as simple as telling people to do something and them doing it where Jesus was the one with the feminine side supposing you do the right thing without having to tell you.
I contend that if there was any hope for a better world somebody would have burned down a stock exchange during the great recession. But we did precisely nothing until Brexit. Brexit and Trump are the closest we've come to burning down the stock exchange and we're long overdue for burning down the stock exchange, this is a fight against a modern world become so passive that grandad revolts, but grandchildren don't. The truth is that the regressive and the reactionary open the door for progressive rebellion, we need people as nasty and selfish as Trump and irresponsible as Farage to show what capitalism truly is and everything wrong with a world run by sociopathy alone.
Having said this the only way to make the powers that be do right by you is to make it more expensive for them to do wrong by you. The powers that be hope that between Facebook, video games and meditation the masses of the people never try to impose themselves on the real world again and will thus go gentle into that good night. The good thing about Trump/Brexit is that they represent a change in a self-enfeebling culture that was almost terminal in its refusal to take action.
Why else would Boris Johnson and a variety of other right-wingers claim that Brexit will increase funding for Britain's most socialist insitution(the NHS)?
Not because it's true, but because they know who they're talking to. If they really knew what Nigel Farage thought about the NHS they'd shoot him. And that's problem. The leave vote was a vote for left-wing economics and that's why we have right-wingers promising to increase funding for socialist institutions and as these promises get broken the whole man of the people image will shatter alongside them.
Once you have a welfare state you can't simply dismantle it and I believe what will cost Leave is more austerity. People knowing that it means more austerity. If you never have a welfare state the sick and less able are simply left to die which in theory gives the country a competitive edge, but once you start caring about quality of life for the bottom 80% of society there's no going back on this without society descending into chaos. If we were to become as elitist as America worshipping self and wealth and allowing the poor to die in the streets this would ruin us. To imitate American self-absorption would be the last thing we ever do.
It'd probably go the other way if there were to be a second referendum. 52% voting for Remain caused by a shift in the urban north. Leave can count on the provincial queens, but lose some of its working class supporters whose vote to Leave was a protest against things as they are(whatever that is).
Generally speaking I find people to be live and let live and if they do try to change you it’s more helpful than not.
My view of the typical person is that he’s mostly indifferent to me and my life but leans slightly to good/lawfulness when it comes to public behaviour. There really was a policemen around that corner and the drinking public stepped in to correct my behaviour and save me from a fine.
I have always felt that being on CS is less wrong when a man does it, like pissing in the street. He’s probably lost his house and kids in a divorce and is here to rant in ways that nobody else does. It bothers me that the women seem to have no local friends especially when they only say anything if it’s trivial. A smaller than life personality that still seems to not fit in locally begs the question what is wrong with them?
Mental illness is a difficult one for me to label as stigma. It isn’t stigma to avoid something actually dangerous and there are books and films dedicated to turning people on to the dangerously mentally ill. Lots of people identify as a sociopath without even realising it which doesn’t mean they are sociopathic it just has the effect of stigmatising low-sociopathy.
The important thing to remember about stigmas is that they’re a blind spot. The biggest stigma is the one we won’t easily or very often realise is a stigma.
Newborn babies. They too are an example of the orchestra of one, the person who cannot be influenced socially. Newborn babies and autistics are the best example in my mind of people who are consistently the same thing in any milieu.
Actors may tell you their role now is all that they are - convincing you of that is the point of acting - but autism is the only thing that does this in reality. To be completely indifferent to company and social rules allowing the autistic individual to be an orchestra of one deaf to any influence beyond tself.
If the criminals in our jails were allowed to operate our borders this whole issue would have worked out differently.
The least among us do the best job of keeping out anything worse. We need the malicious and suspicious from time to time who saves Gondor from the Orcs in Lord of the Rings? Evil ghost men who dwell in the mountain.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?
It makes you look like you've got something to hide and people like to see expressions, to see it in your face how you react to not just them but life itself is part of seeing somebody as a proper human being. There's more to it than concealing beauty you're thinking like a Muslim patriarch.
In the longterm I'd maybe possibly regret skimming over the courting ritual, the pertinent question is has she made it difficult enough for me? It might all be meaningless without the labour of love. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
And it's nothing new. Baby boomers imported it in from the east under the new age, but their own parents meditated - keep calm and carry on. They never put a name to it but i can remember my Grandma and others her age entered into a trance-like state of quiet time which seemed to compose them the rest of the time. It's nothing new people have been self-meditating in the context of horrors for a long, long time. Your parents did it.
But that is the point. What avoidable horrors go unavoided by being so ready to accept them? Yes, they had keep calm and carry on during the war but after the war they had a cup of tea and invented the NHS. They did all these things and more knowing that hunger, bombs and polio were not an acceptable reality, it wasn't just the case of feeling better about polio they were determined to produce a vaccine for polio and actually allow people to live better.
It comes from the far-east, in the modern world that's the land of the suicidal two-faced and in the past kamikaze two-faced with unparalleled atrocities. Narcissism, fake it until you make it and detachment from life is why meditation is popular in the online age, but it's too much navel-gazing it's too much American psycho it's too much grooming and passive acceptance of the horrors. You've completely given up on a better world retreating ever further into yourself.
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RE: The advantages of Living in the countryside ..
The eccentricity and diversity. There's more variety between two villages in the same country than there is between New York, London, Sydney and Paris and the standardised modern individual they produce.