Pot washer. Start at 8am on a Saturday, finish at 3am on the Sunday, straight to a house party, back in work by 10am. That was my weekend life from 14 to 16. Them were days.
Even Jesus. Abandoned by humanity and nailed to that cross came the weakest moment of Jesus. My god, my god, why have you forsaken me? I relate to this every time I sign in.
The only real love now is the romantic, passionate definition. Young or youthful it's a dare to care thing. Real love for older people was the safe and reliable companion, but these are in short supply in Peter Pan times, and the old and unwise are left in the unenviable position of not having the companion or the ability to dare to care. Time alone makes cowards of us all.
Everything changes so fast I think it's difficult to commit to any one thing for life. Not even the job for life exists anymore. I suppose we have to now substitute the test of time with the intensity of passion. If women doting on you and a woman risking her life for you counts as real love then it's not impossible to find.
Forget Oxfam and forget foreign aid. Simply wire the money into grassroots accounts and allow it to trickle-up.
I think that's the happy medium between the status-quo and the old way. In the greatest generation days we didn't trust Africans to run things for themselves and we'd do the organising for them and things sort of worked(although Africans learned nothing), today we trust them to self-organise and nothing really works.
Africans are too childish and primitive to organise beyond the individual level. Government is odious in Africa because they're not very mature. But just because they're not grown up enough to organise collectively does not mean they're incapable of the much more basic and animal concept of personal responsibility. Buliding on personal responsibility may very well develop them into a people who can run their own government. They may take that civilised step from self into society.
The Kenyan GiveDirectly seems to be working fairly well. Giving them free money has improved their health and increased the numbers of hours they work. We can use technology to bypass corruption it's not as though African countries are real countries with a heritage and identity, they're fake nations of diversity created by arbitrarily drawing lines on a map. There's no reason to honour their government or leaders who spend the money on an amulet made from human finger bones.
You really must appreciate that comes out of the war on disease. We'd be in the dark regarding genetic engineering if it wasn't for HIV research for example, what that virus has taught us about the immune system is going to change the century we live in. Don't think in capitalist terms of instant-gratification, quarterly profits and throwing men overboard, years down the line science pays off in ways you could not imagine.
Instantly what comes to mind is John Salk and his polio vaccine he gave away for free. Contrast this with today's big pharma, baby boomers, and malthusian population control and we're heading for another war. Good times create weak selfish people who create bad times.
And with malaria and other diseases like that the argument can always be made that you decrease morbidity and suffering allow people to go on and lead richer and more fulfilling lives. Treating the 85 year old American's cancer isn't going anywhere productively, it's pure sentiment why we do that, it's keeping people alive because it hurts too much not to.
If we were to reduce our use of medicine anywhere in the west it would be on our aging population. Logically and prgamatically the thing to do would be to make society like the book Logans Run, but no one will do this. The main symptom of modern medicine creating a surplus humanity in the developed world is the aging population and the decades-long retired.
Advancing peoples will likely reform the welfare state from a system originally designed to provide emergency relief into one that provides a basic income. Everyone claims benefits and therefore it is no longer wrong to work and claim benefits, by removing the welfare trap families may stop creating their own emergency in order to qualify for relief.
Welfare state or not there's no overpopulation amongst westerners. In fact welfare state and healthcare etc are all about making the most of each child because there isn't loads of them, gone are the days of massive human surplus(until we opened the borders, that is).
Global capitalism is destroying the world, forced and rushed industrialisation. Descending on utterly ignorant, savage people with absolutely nothing and forcing their world five centuries into a future they can't possibly be psychologically and culturally adapted to deal with. The birth rate takes generations of gradual development and slow learning to come down naturally.
30 years of growing social problems around diet and mental health can no longer be ignored and that's what people seem to accept. Now do you spend a lot of money on resolving these issues - cutting back on christmas presents to pay more tax - or do you wash your hands of it and just say "no man, no problem" like Duterte or Stalin.
Mental health is only of interest to the right because it's a threat. This is a criminal issue and the answer is fencing in people who are a danger, it's not about improving other peoples mental health it's purely selfish and self-preserving in motive. It's not about well-being and healthcare and prevention, it's about repressing the symptoms of the problem from a security point of view long enough for you to stay alive.
Unless you're going to hose them down and rounding them up into camps the right doesn't have any answers for the dysfunctional of society. Duterte is the only right-wing answer to the dysfunctional.
Imagine there's two of you being chased by a madmen with a knife and the other person trips you up to make sure the murderer catches you and not him. That's not the person you ask about the welfare of society.
There comes a point in material advance where you do not need to rely on any person self or other. Your society will become rootless and insured through development.
Watch the ones that aren't political correctness on crack, where they've selected the cast on talent and developed their characters in the plot. The Force Awakens may as well have starred The Spice Girls. What was wrong with Star Wars before exactly? It was gay the whole time.
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RE: I need to run 5 km none stop
There's only two reasons you'd do that - you've taken some drugs or you're trying to not take some drugs.