Is that the one where you say thank you for even the little acts of kindness. Thanks for not breaking into my car, thanks for not punching me in the back of the head etc
It may be the one thing we allow and even increase as everything else gets defunded. The fake house prices, the fake money, the fake news, the fake police, the fake courts and the fake education. In a sense small children are supposed to be parasitic looters, all of the state stops being a creche apart from the creche.
And even without those distractions I doubt the outcome would be a nation of thrift and wise investment. More than likely those who rule over us would be set on fire.
Unsurprisingly the majority give up on thrift and saving because it's too much to save and you don't even get any interest. When you add to the stress of work, the ordinary job twice as demanding as 20 or 30 years ago what people will do is piss away their wages. The reward for being wise with money seem so far away but right now you need distraction from how bad it is to work.
But quite a lot if you ask the nationalists who view not going extinct as a national priority.
No, it's the fake middle class with it's fake money and fake house prices that needs actioning. Not many people can follow it. I mean you've gotta be ten times better than your dad just to get the same house.
What it gives with one hand it takes with the other. What the government should do is allow the housing market to crash by tightening the money supply. A young family pays the extortionate rents so that others can borrow from the fake value of their property.
I wonder how the whole shaming anti-vaxxers goes down in South Africa because it is basically all the people who benefitted from apartheid versus all the people who didn't. Must be a touchy subject.
It's going to have to be normal because there's not a lot of support for lockdown or for fulfilling the latest definition of fully vaccinated.
We would end up like South Africa with the apartheid whites quadruple vaccinated and the poor unvaccinated blacks unaffected by covid but desperate for the chance to work. The cowardice of the old rich will have something real to fear if it doesn't stop.
That'll be the lasting difference as I see it. The pandemic has smashed local resistance meaning that developers can do anything they want. Not the empty shelves but the hostile takeover is what we'll remember. They've ravaged up our finances and smashed people power.
It's not been too bad around here. The worst I see is the surplus of unaffordable houses, the shortages are being made worse because developers build overpriced houses that won't sell even with the banks given a license to lend lots of money to fools in the attempt to repeat 2008.
Get boosted if you want to slow the spread. If you want to delay getting it for a couple of months, do your bit for the health service. Not a lot of reason to do this for your own health.
I don't think but if I did think it would mean that we have no free will. Say you had a bad couple of weeks and wanted to go back and do things differently, you couldn't. Anything that happened in that fortnight is the fortnight's fault and not ours, it's just a bad fortnight.
Not to defend Prince Andrew but didn't there used to be naked 16 year old girls in the newspaper? Page 3 of the Sun? With all the men Andrews age knocking one out? I'm sure that was about the same time as that photo.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing is what must come from sending the average person for higher education. Sooner or later society will be saying that man is woman and what a man wants is a great big fat lapdancer in her 40s. This is the war against instinct. And this war is why we can't learn to live with the world as is.
But Africa doesn't have a single one of these problems, their very existence trivializes our problems. Literally in this case by giving us omicron. The milder variant would never have arised amongst the unloved and the unnatural.
The moral of the story is a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. We have Google and we have degrees but we don't have experience with the stormy billows of life. Everybody is like a student and in theory communism works. But plans will be faced with something that comes from outside the intellect, and it's called reality. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The slightly clever declare war on everything that is instinctive, but it's not that simple.
But let's not be too harsh on the virtue crowd because they weren't to know any better. They've always had it brilliant. It's not surprising for it to believe that it's plans will work out the way they expect, most people live in a f*cking cubicle. The authorities, the society, they've never been tested by anything. I guess it would be easy to mistake something as competent because it never had the opportunity to fail.
And that really is the miracle of capitalism. How the unvaccinated did more for humanity without even realising than the double vaccinated goody two shoes ever could. The capitalist spirit has done more than all the virtue signaling and draconian measures combined.
Really the great crime against humanity has been those who made you get vaccinated claiming that not doing so would turn covid into something much worse.
That was a foolish and disgusting lie that completely contradicts the facts. The fact is that those who didn't get vaccinated have been the ones to protect humanity from covid.
They're very small gains you get from dose two/three/four. All they really do is block infection for a short time by activating the defences. They don't actually improve those defences like first doses and natural infection.
And then it's even more complicated because this milder variant has come from the people who braved it. If everybody had been vaccinated we'd be living now with a deadlier covid. It's friendlier thanks to the opportunity to co-evolve with the normal human being.
The future belongs to the young is not a phrase we like. Not since the greatest generation gave birth to the baby boomers have the grown ups in society been old-fashioned. To accept death and create life is breaking the habits of a lifetime.
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RE: Are you psychic?
I thought I was but it turned out to be anxiety.