I think you're overstating the burden it is because you like them in the same way that you have no sympathy for a young man crossing the sea on a punctured lilo because you don't like him. But which would you pick? To be king or to cross the sea on a punctured lilo? At any rate I could be a better king than Charles and it would certainly make my life easier.
It's a bit sad but she had a good innings and a very luxurious life, not really a tragedy. And as for Britain we have William and Kate to do a reasonable job of regal behaviour.
I don't know if deserves is quite the right word there must be a billion people who do more good deeds for far less reward. The respect for her says more about humanity being a vacuous lickspittle than Liz being an especially good person.
Or maybe we should do a state funeral inspired by David Bowie. Make a eulogy out of random words cut from a newspaper and listen to fan(atic)s say how meaningful and significant these words are. I love how Bowie used to take the piss out of his own fans, especially the ones who took him seriously.
The people will want her to have one and she paid her own way to be fair. Even if I myself am a bit Bowie and wish people were a bit more grown up we still have to deal with humanity as is. It likes to live vicariously through others rather than come up with their own doings. She's a tourist trap and perhaps shouldn't be, but she is. And what Kate puts on for an evening makes billions for Britain - perhaps it shouldn't, but it does.
Now obviously there's the good Samaritan who would help anyone whoever they are but that is not how altruism normally works. Normally it's about playing favourites and capitalism helps to break down that nepotism and cronyism by appreciating that someone is right without having to like them. It's much easier to give a fair shake through capitalism it doesn't require a saint for it to be done.
And also the materialism. Making it on merit has much to do with material things - I don't really like that baker but I do like his bread. It requires some objective standard like the best bread rather than who you like or dislike. Now is benevolence going to treat people equally like that? Not normally, no. Often it will decide that certain types are entitled to more help than others. The closest we actually come to equality is the sense of fair play - I don't like him but he's right, his bread is better.
It most probably has something to do with the capitalist idea that the greater good is served by self-interest because selfishness is a much harder worker than benevolence - which in most people it is. Capitalism will always come up with the goods where benevolence tries to feed people with good intentions at best and virtue signalling at worst. The problem for benevolence will be if you can't do, teach, and it'll just be words lots and lots of sermons without any improvement to the general welfare. However, the problem with capitalism is that it only works as a system of checks and balances, only works when all the selfish people are relatively equal in power and therefore can only win by being the best. It fails where any one is in a position where you can't lose because that means you win without being the best.
I was about 8 in the whacky warehouse. I suppose I did see it coming we were on and off throughout primary school, but not long after she moved away and it broke my heart. I just had to become a womaniser for many years after that, regretfully I couldn't tell you a thing about the first time I made love.
A personal chef. One is an art form and the other is lifting a weight off the ground to put it back down again. And whilst we're at it friends can harass me into going to the gym consistently no need for a paid mithering.
The problem is that the first thing depressed people are going to do is people please. To hide your dissatisfaction and hold on to it forever. The depressed usher in a society of morale drubbing because a yes man will not say no it'll just come out in some extreme out of sight way like the gas chambers.
Maybe if your idea of stress is your neighbour's larger swimming pool or more attractive wife. If envy was your main problem in life.
Yet I don't think triumph of the will is the answer for a Jew in Germany or having to choose which of your children gets to eat and which you have to bury.
I think happiness is a choice so long as the causes of unhappiness are not present. You have to be lucky and then not feel bad about a neighbour who has been even more lucky. Unlucky won't have misery created by envy - unlucky feels grateful not to be dead - but it will have troubles that the fortunate ones cannot imagine.
I think this belongs to an easier time where cosmic money energy flows towards you particularly after your parents die. The late last century where by default you couldn't lose, not really, you were always going to be alright and it didn't matter what you do. Essentially it was how the golden agers applaud themselves for the better world bequeathed to them by their parents.
Pushing through the market square So many mothers sighing (sighing) News had just come over We had five years left to cry in (cry in) News guy wept and told us Earth was really dying (dying) Cried so much his face was wet Then I knew he was not lying (lying)
I heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat, skinny people And all the tall, short people And all the nobody people And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people
A girl my age went off her head Hit some tiny children If the Black hadn't have pulled her off I think she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest And a queer threw up at the sight of that I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlor Drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine Don't think you knew you were in this song And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there Your face, your race, the way that you talk I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise Five years, stuck on my eyes We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got
We've got five years, what a surprise We've got five years, stuck on my eyes We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got
And in addition to this, and also an expression of this, we had the space race and the moon landing. People were looking up at the stars but that died away into shoulder pads and made in China. The culture had a collective aspiration for a bit and it was a different time back then, more respect for people who can use long words and oftentimes the people who used long words could hit you back. The culture is divorced now you don't get thinking people who are handy and that's why we don't respect the sophisticated, we don't place our hopes in the intelligent.
If you were to ask me my favourite years they would be 18 to 22, and not just because it's 18 to 22, but because it was 2005 to 2008. Not just me, but everybody's life has got worse these last 14 years. Everybody in the west at least. Not just the end of my youth, it was the end of the golden age in society itself.
I don't think I would argue against it neither. The early boomers were the best of both worlds, liberals who came from a less than liberal society are the only good liberals because something goes wrong when people never have it so good. The liberals now are not smart, not creative, not anything that a liberal should be because I think affluence makes society more interesting than the people in it. The early boomers were good because they were raised under the discipline of old with the opportunity of the new. But by the 1980s these people were spent and music never really recovered from the 1980s.
All the danger of death gets condensed down into the act of child birth - which used to be a very dangerous thing - and it doesn't actually matter if they're pregnant the women are still women. The oldest get-out in the book, so if a madmen bursts in with a knife you have to confront him. That's the deep end of what a man should be, an unrequested fight to the death.
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RE: A thread of respect for Queen Elizabeth who died this day 8th September 2022
I think you're overstating the burden it is because you like them in the same way that you have no sympathy for a young man crossing the sea on a punctured lilo because you don't like him. But which would you pick? To be king or to cross the sea on a punctured lilo? At any rate I could be a better king than Charles and it would certainly make my life easier.