To some extent. But we live in a strange world where to work we must change ourselves constantly, never has the society and the economy changed so much in such a short space of time, but to shop is almost the opposite. Right or wrong we will be told how right we are. To earn money we have to adapt more than even before, to spend money we stay the same like never before.
To me this seems much fairer than either kicking the strikers back to work or the baby boomers out of retirement. And yes I know rail workers are notorious slobs but that's still better than doing something completely made-up.
And we need to do things like not troll the feminists by making the period dignity officer a man, but simply have anybody who talks like this pressed into a workhouse as we bulldoze the college that used to be an all-night petrol station. We can't afford every third job to be something preposterous.
And they say the era of cheap money is over because of raising interest rates. But if the base rate is 2.25% and inflation is 10% then cheap money isn't over at all. It's actually cheaper than before. It depends what you buy but on most occasions you are going to be 7.75% better off spending the money that wasn't yours. Cheap money isn't over until it pays to keep your money in the bank, pays in real terms.
I'm sure it feels normal to them and speaking objectively that must be normal compared to popping down to tesco. Popping down to tesco is really weird when you think about it, it might be comfortable but it's certainly not normal. We might prefer it but the rich modern world is really weird in reality.
The junior guy takes the bullet and bring on Mr Straightlaces. I'm still waiting for a Chancellor David Beckham, he queued up for miles to see the Queen and goes down well in Qatar. Plus he has nice hair.
Lineage being a good reason not to send women into battle because we may as well send children into battle. No, you need the gender that after losing a leg will say at least I've got my hands. Those who take it on the chin like an animal. It has to be the expendable where you are not disabled by losing a leg, but lucky to be alive. Women were born to create life and men were born to die. Men were born to feel lucky to be alive and that's why we must face the heaviest burdens.
Memory helps to avoid being taken advantage as it's first and foremost a record of negative things. We can survive if we forget where the berry bush is but not survive forgetting where the lions are. Even now we are ten times more likely to give something a bad review for this reason, for the sake of warning.
But memory is not the whole story because things we can't remember everything that happened to us, and things that may have happened to your ancestors but not you, are alive in you. Particularly your female ancestors. If your grandma was at Auschwitz you will have night terrors today whether you know of your grandma or not. Even if you were adopted and estranged from your lineage the lineage will apply.
The irony of communism is that it comes with more opium of the masses than any other system until eventually you're back in the medieval era. It's supposed to be completely democratic but isn't at all, it's not supposed to have a god or a strongman ruler but comes to need both, it's not supposed to march around at all but in practice spends most days on parade. Communism in practice takes us back centuries psychologically. There is not one aspect of social progress that it will not undo.
It's not really that I fear the unknown it's that I fear the people who fear the unknown. What today's society really needs is 48 hours queueing up to see the dead queen, the culture as one homogeneous block none of this foreign muck or the strange ways of technology and the internet. It's having a laugh to believe it can handle diversity it needs to stick to what it knows, anything actually diverse it will kill.
To put you off. I like talking to strangers but I don't think it's a good idea. I think we need to unlearn what we were accustomed to in a free society which are things like openness, trust and freedom of association.
And our cultural inheritance is absolute. Your parents could leave all their money to the cats home(or vote for higher taxes)to avoid spoiling you rotten, to teach you the value of things. But there's no way around the society in which you live. A society won't deliberately give away all it's money because it thinks that would be character-building for the kids. This might happen by accident but it would not happen by design.
Very limited is the material advantage(or disadvantage)bequeathed to you by your parents if you are a squirrel. There's a handful of nuts between the rich young squirrel and the poor young squirrel. All squirrels will have to work at least a moderate amount. Humanity is not like this. Our posterity can never have it so good but it could also spend the rest of its day trying to de-salt the earth. For better or worse inheritance plays a much greater role.
All animals have to work. I guess the rabbit is as close to being on welfare that the animal kingdom gets, but even then a hawk could swoop in and whip you away.
Man is the only species with money and money may or may not be earned. If you pay for something from an unearned income then it's free for you. It's not free for the parents who left you a fortune in their will, but it's free for you.
I guess the mistake is to say man-made and nature-made as though these things were completely different when in reality man is part of this world. Nature is what we freely do by accident and manmade is what we craft by design. Manmade is the minding about things and the natural is off the cuff. We do both. Now the natural will most probably die younger and make more mistakes in life, the manmade will live longer in a scripted life where all the people are vampires - the unloved and the unnatural sealed in a box for longevity.
And perhaps that's why a loving heart judges people by their intent rather than by result. Because we're talking about something that occurs at random it is a mystery why it is this way and not some other way. This is what love is, this is what life is at the end of the day a gamble. If there's no such thing as an accident then there's no such thing as love.
And if you put business with the human-made you'd have to put love in with the state of nature. If you wanted to build a brand you would calculate and manage your emotions just as you would do these things if you wanted to become repellant for women. Love is wild, love is spontaneous because it happens in spite of our plans. Love like nature has a will of its own, we cannot make it so it just happens beyond our understanding.
And if jaded was the symptom of the civilised then for the nature-made it is awe. The scarcity of pleasure in a state of nature heightens the emotions involved to the point of ecstasy in the same way that the scarcity of pain around the civilised heightens the emotions involved to the point of weariness and disgust.
Allergies. The human-made makes us eventually far too important to be able to eat wheat. High status = low tolerance the tendency to take offence at, well, take offence in general.
Infectious disease. The nature-made afflicts us with so much unpleasantness that eventually we have to ignore it become tolerant of it.
I mean that those in power can and will make it up as they go along and the only check against this is to remember what really happened. Without memory or foresight we can and will be groomed into just about anything.
Which is to be avoided. It's for the axe to forget what it did to the tree, but it is not in the interest of the tree to forget what the axe did to it. The business of the defenceless tree is to remember what really happened, remember what the axe is and remember what the axe does.
And if people could remember things better, and think about where they were going, then they'd have burned down the stock exchange years ago - and rightly so. Not being able to remember things is the main reason why modern humanity is so passive in the face of criminal rulers and a system that creates a worse life for the kids. We'd burn the stock exchange down if enough people had any idea of what's been done to them, and where they are going. What luck for rulers that men have no memory or foresight
It's only because time exists and people can remember things that people say to the WEF "no I won't eat bugs". Thanks to the existence of time the WEF faces the very difficult task of doctoring all history to persuade people that they have always eaten bugs. Without time we are the Orwellian nightmare by default, we will already be there.
My issue with living in the present is that no matter what happens it should feel normal. Auschwitz would feel normal without a yesterday to say that it isn't. Living in the moment makes the situation more easy to deal with at the expense of any ability to change the situation. If there was no time then everything is permitted. Every day a new normal even if it was horrendous.
ChesneyChrist Forum Posts (7,144)
RE: can you change yourself for someone else?
To some extent. But we live in a strange world where to work we must change ourselves constantly, never has the society and the economy changed so much in such a short space of time, but to shop is almost the opposite. Right or wrong we will be told how right we are. To earn money we have to adapt more than even before, to spend money we stay the same like never before.