They used to warn us about violence in video games and the media and I do believe that plays a role, but what happens when people become media? A lot of reality with a bit of game is one thing, a lot of game with a bit of reality? That just makes me very nervous. I always think it couldn't possibly get anymore shallow, but then it does. It's not playing call of duty but the absence of real life we should be angry with. But how can we stop it? Anything we say here is playing into their hands
But so much for the past. Today the politics seems to me self-defeating in a worst of both worlds. Lockdown should never have happened but we should also invest heavily in mental health services and do something about the American culture that's gone global. Try to be a little less saccharine, a little less like you're reading from a teleprompter in the way Americans do. They're even trying to people into a living teleprompter, your own personal life sponsored by big corporations. This is your life brought to you by General Motors. No, contrary to today's appearance we need to re-establish the sense that other people and their lives are real.
Which goes back to the original reason for the right to bear arms - the insanity of the hive not the individual. It was to live in a space less safe so as to avoid monstrous tyranny. The founding fathers were considerate of threats from above which is why the average man could be armed to the teeth. They saw the system as worse than the average person which is not how we live today. The hospitals don't take care of us, we stay home to take care of the hospitals as we are groomed into an illiberal era where our lives are meaningless without the state, where we exist for the sake of the system rather than a system that exists for our sake.
Basically I do see a connection between European gun control and world wars. That it empowers the state to murder us instead. I think Biden knowing he could get shot curtailed the worst excesses of lockdown in America. If we forfeit our own mettle then we leave ourselves wide open to goose-step and genocide in the biggest way possible - it just won't happen as often.
To be honest I don't know, don't really trust that safety that comes from being next to a powerless person who hates you and praying to police is even more doubtful. There's a part of me that thinks gun control makes us safer until it doesn't, until the authorities themselves become criminal which is inevitable that they do at some point.
I think the Americans need to be more pragmatic in a world where nobody likes anybody anymore. You have to make it so people can't hurt you no matter how much they may want to. You'll not be making anybody want to hurt you less, particularly after lockdown which has a hand in these massacres. If anything after lockdown we should be breaking everyone's fingers to prevent fist fights. With no chance of doing the right thing humanity must be made powerless to act and start praying to police.
Exceptions exist for a police officer and a politician, a bouncer or a kingpin, I would just prefer to trust people who trust because they know that it's all worthwhile. Not being guarded and gossipy makes life more worth living
I have a cat with three legs and the mind of a dog. He's the low maintenance of a cat with the emotional support of a dog, really come into his own since he lost a leg.
I think they're strong but on other hand the meek inherit the earth. In the old days only the strong survived part and parcel with having 8 kids to watch the weakest 5 die. Nowadays the weakest might not be the weakest those traits that make a scientist weak in the jungle are a strength in the lab. The worst survivor in a state of nature is an asset today. We need more of the creative type in society and society can protect the fragility of creative types.
But unfortunately this isn't the way it goes. Being strict, punishing people brutally, and not really knowing/caring if you've got the right guy come in a package. That making an example of someone has the opposite effect, it's an example to all the guilty that they're no better off being innocent. It's worse than doesn't work.
At any rate if you must have strict laws then you need to do it through crime detection. It's that people think they're going to get caught which deters crime not the harsh punishment that comes with being really bad at catching criminals. The will to let's just say guilty and cut out their tongue that so often comes with not really knowing if you've got the right guy. To deter crime you need to make it understood that people who are actually guilty can be caught rather than mutilating the guy who probably didn't do it but you desperately need the result.
What about when alcohol was an illegal drug? The era of prohibition?
At the end of the progressive era they tried to instill an age of discipline that resulted in two world wars and the Holocaust. The establishment was terrified of the freedoms and luxuries that modern society made possible so it manufactured a crisis to get people when they're down. How else do we turn people into a stern father without vital reason? Invent a reason to be punitive and unkind because nothing a lowlife likes more than lowering the status of other lowlifes.
Basically put I'm skeptical of it turning out like Portugal and actually becoming more like the opioid crisis in America. The law will be used by the forces of corruption to prey upon losers in a way that would make a heroin dealer blush.
I'm not interested in throwing addicts in jail, however, I reckon that full legalisation would to a legal version of preying on losers. Suits pushing drugs harder than the dealers ever did using the government, courts and media that they own.
The anxiety is off the charts but I think we the human species can go through a lot worse and then feel better about it. It's happened throughout history. Afterwards they don't go on and on about what happened, they have a cup of tea and invent the NHS. We come from people who survived a million times worse
There's a bit of a difference. What's happening in Ukraine is a big step down from what was happening before and Ukraine has got over abuses that came from the west and the east. But I just don't see the middle east ever getting over anything. Its a merchant/bandit zero sum kind of place with a lot of bad blood and yet we still do more for Palestine than the Saudis. And with Israel there's the historic sense that we are responsible for them being there. Israel is a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.
In fact the whole thing is going to be very interesting when the penny drops that conservativism is all about being penniless. Will it forego all the liberalist mod cons like the amish? Or will it continue to do both? Live like nothing that came before whilst espousing conservativism?
I think the latter will be the case. Let the psychological rut do what living in a hut used to do. It will be the hypocritical traditionalism of this forum, the unhappiness of modern conservativism exists on some level because they know they're fake. Like I say they really hate the optimism of western progress but at the same time they'd be extremely uncomfortable living traditionally.
It's not quite openly said yet but its poverty they want. Which is why we have the paradox of boomers who support pro-life complaining that the kids live in the basement when that is the traditional, conservative household. They think that they could take money, economic freedom from capitalism, without freedom in any other sense. And they're completely wrong about that. We'll go back to a time of real conservatives who never liked capitalism, but for a very different reason to Marx. They didn't like it because they knew that money and power would destroy the traditional way of life. If you want social conservatism you need to get yourself into a communist country where the economy has been wrecked
Which is how it ties in with nationalism. Christianity in this hour is not an ethical creed so much as an identity bracelet. More like supporting a football team, an act of loyalty more than a principled belief. Most fans would support their team cheating to obtain victory which is obviously in stark contrast Jesus being nailed to a cross which was an act of not cheating even in the face of the most unjust law.
And that makes perfect sense. A restaurant wants to know what you really think, it's advantageous for them to know the truth, but the customer must never know what the restaurant thinks of them because the customer is always right. That's the line.
And it's a bit like men and women on a date. A waiter and a gentlemen allows the customer and the woman to maintain their fiction. The man is there to get what he wants like the waiter and the woman is there to hear what she wants like the diner. The poor will generally be the people to both lie more yet know what the truth is. But fiction amongst the rich and powerful may as well be gospel truth. Whoever holds all the cards has neither reason to lie nor reason to accept bitter truth.
Sometimes easier, sometimes more difficult when you have to remember what the lie was.
But then the biggest liar is the well-mannered. The biggest and the wisest liar is manners, that poker face and collection of prepared statements that may or may not be true. I had a great time this evening, but did I? There is a difference between manners and respect. You can earn respect and therefore someone might tell you the truth now. You can't earn manners, manners are for anyone you want to make a good impression with. They're lies for people you don't trust that much yet.
Or if not a war then another covid done in the style of survival of the fittest. Don't save the lives of those who would have died soon anyway, save the futures of people able to do things the youth challenged to build and maintain armies of robot bees and the other things we need to manage our own biosphere. When old people die war will become much less likely.
I'd say the goo needs to get real good real fast or pow. Technology must convince the human species that it hasn't been ground into poverty and rationing or survival of the fittest will kick in i.e. war.
Well I only took the one dose as a way of saying that there's nothing to fear from covid or the vaccine. It's all been like the 1980s when a person would leave the swimming pool when a man with HIV entered the water. The hysteria, the prejudice is one to remember.
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RE: Texas school shooting
They used to warn us about violence in video games and the media and I do believe that plays a role, but what happens when people become media? A lot of reality with a bit of game is one thing, a lot of game with a bit of reality? That just makes me very nervous. I always think it couldn't possibly get anymore shallow, but then it does. It's not playing call of duty but the absence of real life we should be angry with. But how can we stop it? Anything we say here is playing into their hands