I'm a serious man. Well, I've been advised that I have what the dating sites call a GSOH, but still, I'm not stupid and I like to reflect, in a serious manner, on things.
So when I hear gibberish like "Nobody is safe until we're all safe" I want to reach for (one of) my gun(s). Of fucking course you're safe, if you're safe. If somebody else on the other side of the country isn't safe, that has no effect on you whatsoever.
Similarly with all your other examples. If one is reasonably intelligent, it certainly appears as though a combination of insane people (Ed Milliband), malevolent psychopaths (Ed Milliband) and immature children who need spanking (Ed Milligand...no, wait...Zak Polanski, that snaggle toothed imbecile) have taken over the world.
How did a fucking obnoxious, permanently surprised looking, incompetent, dishonest, pasty faced, pencil necked, needle dicked buffoon like Two Tier Top Gear Starmer the Farmer Harmer ever become PM? On what ridiculous planet would such an absurd thing ever happen, FFS?
And yet, here we are.
Things aren't *serious* any more. We are fed lies and bullshit and expected to believe that they're truth and champagne. The things we vote for (eg, don't import thousands of savages rapists) are ignored. Everything is circling the toilet bowl.
I'm in my mid-60s now. The world wasn't always like this and it simply can't go on like this. That which can't continue, won't.
I shudder to think what will happen when these things stop continuing. Still, anything would be better than this.
You're onto something there for sure. I think the Calhoun findings are absolutely relatable to today's society - up to and including the 'final' downfall of the colony: The Beautiful Ones - the mice who just spent their time grooming themselves and having no social engagement at all. A lot of our current society are 'beautiful ones', and we're stampeding towards the inevitable outcome of over-stimulated and under socialized living.
The thing with lists is that every single item on a list can be broken down into at minimum two more list items.
It's like that Mandelbrot-thing (incidentally, "Mandelbrot" means "Almond-bread" or possibly "Almond-cake") that just goes on and on.
Occam's Razor meets Zeno's Paradox, kinda sorta.
Zenocca Razoradox, I choose you! - because both names sound like Pokemons anyway.
Let me add to the list (no, I'm not checking it twice, I ain't Santa, despite the beard!):
The private is political
Wanting things to be apolitical is political
If you want it enough, it'll manifest itself for you
Working out at the gym is White supremacism
Milk is a secret code for White supremacy
A frog-meme is a secret nazi-code
Thiomersal in vaccines is dangerous; Thiomersal in tattoo-ink is not
Buying ecological kiwis in Scandinavia is good for the environment
EVs are better for the climate than diesel engines
Petrol cans need signs telling people not to drink the contents
Women forced into prostitution may go to prison over owing back taxes from being raped for pay
Real communism has never been tried
Real capitalism has never been tried
Real Christianity has ... eff it, I'm not writing out every -ism!
The Jews have a right to a stretch of land they haven't controlled for 2 000 years, due to their blood-heritage; insert-White-people-here does not have that right despite having lived on a specific stretch of land since the Ice Age ended
We're too many for the Earth to support us: trying to get Africans, Indians, var. other non-Whites to stop having children is racist
Abortion is a right
Capital punishment is wrong
If you keep doing that, you'll go blind
Doing porn is oppression - wearing symbol/garment/et c is a free choice
Questioning statements and checking facts is science, except when it's not
Owning dogs is islamophobic
Why are we spending money on ABC when unrelated thing XYZ isn't perfect?
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I could go all day, but this feels like work.
Which I miss- Letting 16-20 years olds ask question-statements like the ones above, was a real good tool when teaching pol sci and social sciences in general.
Of course, nowadays that method (the semi-Socratic one) is frowned upon, since it's not quoting the book verbatim, but instead requires the poor sod hiding behind the catheder actually being able to think and even worse know stuff not in the course literature...
ah, it sounded so furryously ack-a-demic, ro-dentally speakin'....I mean the distinguished "Mouse U"...topiary.... a "garden of life" kinda micro-(micro-minnie?) cause'um...
either "dumb human eggsperiments are dumb" OR messy life (mooey far from u-toe-pick) seems ta result in best scenario survival of us human beans who fail ta sprout when un-soiled.... or BOTH!
guess we kin leave all things eu-topiary ta the bespoke gardners.... perhaps Chauncy Gardner had it right all 'long?
ps I'll leave u-toe-pick Moon travel ta Wallace & Gromit (who gladly'd share sum tasty cheeze--Wensleydale?-- with those poor cannibalistic mice)
I share your feelings Sir.
I'm a serious man. Well, I've been advised that I have what the dating sites call a GSOH, but still, I'm not stupid and I like to reflect, in a serious manner, on things.
So when I hear gibberish like "Nobody is safe until we're all safe" I want to reach for (one of) my gun(s). Of fucking course you're safe, if you're safe. If somebody else on the other side of the country isn't safe, that has no effect on you whatsoever.
Similarly with all your other examples. If one is reasonably intelligent, it certainly appears as though a combination of insane people (Ed Milliband), malevolent psychopaths (Ed Milliband) and immature children who need spanking (Ed Milligand...no, wait...Zak Polanski, that snaggle toothed imbecile) have taken over the world.
How did a fucking obnoxious, permanently surprised looking, incompetent, dishonest, pasty faced, pencil necked, needle dicked buffoon like Two Tier Top Gear Starmer the Farmer Harmer ever become PM? On what ridiculous planet would such an absurd thing ever happen, FFS?
And yet, here we are.
Things aren't *serious* any more. We are fed lies and bullshit and expected to believe that they're truth and champagne. The things we vote for (eg, don't import thousands of savages rapists) are ignored. Everything is circling the toilet bowl.
I'm in my mid-60s now. The world wasn't always like this and it simply can't go on like this. That which can't continue, won't.
I shudder to think what will happen when these things stop continuing. Still, anything would be better than this.
You're onto something there for sure. I think the Calhoun findings are absolutely relatable to today's society - up to and including the 'final' downfall of the colony: The Beautiful Ones - the mice who just spent their time grooming themselves and having no social engagement at all. A lot of our current society are 'beautiful ones', and we're stampeding towards the inevitable outcome of over-stimulated and under socialized living.
Reminds me of “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
G. Michael Hopf. And here we are.
That's one hell of a list. I think I have to go lie down now.
My right eye started to twitch about mid list!
🤣🤣🤣 It was my left eye.
Reminds me of the bee-keeper's dread...Colony Collapse...
The thing with lists is that every single item on a list can be broken down into at minimum two more list items.
It's like that Mandelbrot-thing (incidentally, "Mandelbrot" means "Almond-bread" or possibly "Almond-cake") that just goes on and on.
Occam's Razor meets Zeno's Paradox, kinda sorta.
Zenocca Razoradox, I choose you! - because both names sound like Pokemons anyway.
Let me add to the list (no, I'm not checking it twice, I ain't Santa, despite the beard!):
The private is political
Wanting things to be apolitical is political
If you want it enough, it'll manifest itself for you
Working out at the gym is White supremacism
Milk is a secret code for White supremacy
A frog-meme is a secret nazi-code
Thiomersal in vaccines is dangerous; Thiomersal in tattoo-ink is not
Buying ecological kiwis in Scandinavia is good for the environment
EVs are better for the climate than diesel engines
Petrol cans need signs telling people not to drink the contents
Women forced into prostitution may go to prison over owing back taxes from being raped for pay
Real communism has never been tried
Real capitalism has never been tried
Real Christianity has ... eff it, I'm not writing out every -ism!
The Jews have a right to a stretch of land they haven't controlled for 2 000 years, due to their blood-heritage; insert-White-people-here does not have that right despite having lived on a specific stretch of land since the Ice Age ended
We're too many for the Earth to support us: trying to get Africans, Indians, var. other non-Whites to stop having children is racist
Abortion is a right
Capital punishment is wrong
If you keep doing that, you'll go blind
Doing porn is oppression - wearing symbol/garment/et c is a free choice
Questioning statements and checking facts is science, except when it's not
Owning dogs is islamophobic
Why are we spending money on ABC when unrelated thing XYZ isn't perfect?
---
I could go all day, but this feels like work.
Which I miss- Letting 16-20 years olds ask question-statements like the ones above, was a real good tool when teaching pol sci and social sciences in general.
Of course, nowadays that method (the semi-Socratic one) is frowned upon, since it's not quoting the book verbatim, but instead requires the poor sod hiding behind the catheder actually being able to think and even worse know stuff not in the course literature...
By the time I got to the end of your list I was banging my head against the wall. It’s all so sad, but true.
Rat Utopia experiments explain to this country raised farmer why Cities are full of weirdest, degenerates and lovers.
Overcrowding aka high density living is not good for people's heads
ah, it sounded so furryously ack-a-demic, ro-dentally speakin'....I mean the distinguished "Mouse U"...topiary.... a "garden of life" kinda micro-(micro-minnie?) cause'um...
https://www.resortsgal.com/blog/mickey-minnie-mouse-topiary/ (um, sadly, it's real)
similarly, the human terrarium 'speriment didn't go so well either...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250703-how-the-biosphere-2-experiment-changed-our-understanding-of-the-earth?
either "dumb human eggsperiments are dumb" OR messy life (mooey far from u-toe-pick) seems ta result in best scenario survival of us human beans who fail ta sprout when un-soiled.... or BOTH!
guess we kin leave all things eu-topiary ta the bespoke gardners.... perhaps Chauncy Gardner had it right all 'long?
ps I'll leave u-toe-pick Moon travel ta Wallace & Gromit (who gladly'd share sum tasty cheeze--Wensleydale?-- with those poor cannibalistic mice)