31 May 2022 7:40 pm
The one safe bet I could always count on was that tomorrow was likely - very likely - to look a lot like today.Monderegal » 31 May 2022, 11:13 am » wrote: ↑ I found this article in the Atlantic interesting for several reasons. First, it is about American culture itself. We bombard ourselves with violence and anger that has gone to the level of being desensitized to the reality of death. Now, more and more people are taking up arms and acting out their fatal fantasies. This is not simply a gun issue. It is a cultural issue where we never even second guess the media we consume for entertainment as a loathsome effect on our psyches. This used to be a question of political importance but it seems voices that condemned such notions have now gone deaf. With this culture at work, the anger and dark tendencies of human nature will probably rear their ugly head again and again to a point that such violence could become even more common.
The second note here is that it seems many people have given up hope in a better future. The decline of spiritual practices and the alienation of citizens and their government are both signs of this. Even masks are seen as an intrusive government on a public that has given up on civic engagement. The debate on Covid safety measures, of course, is one of democracy but the reasoning sometimes points to a complete rejection of the government in general. Nihilism or the complete rejection of meaning in life was the result of the secularization of American society in my opinion. This was mostly not the case at first when most rejection of organized religion still instilled spirituality in some sort of form. Now as time passes the world has become more bleak for many and the rejection of any sort of meaning in life is much more common. This is a proper analysis of the state of American society at this point in my opinion where we find ourselves looking in the mirror again with the latest mass killing. Link to Atlantic article here.
On Y2K I lived in San Francisco, and I didn't have so much as an extra bottle of water stockpiled. I have never been one to panic - to believe in any of that "the end is near" ****,
Currently, I am at my bug-in, in the hills. I am sitting on a **** ton of staples and getting my chicken coop put together. I have my water and energy contingiencies coming together. I have no confidence whatsoever that tomorrow will look anything like today. I identify more with 20th century Kulaks than I do with the 21st century urban slackers that I used to kick it with.
"What changed," I asked rhetorically. Well, rhetorical me, I will answer that. What changed is that my government pulled the covid scam, and used it to unlwfully, fascistically pressure citizens into participating in drug trials which it knew were extremely dangerous to public health. In the aftermath, all-cause mortlity is up 25% - statistically, in line with an asteroid strike; far greater than the rise we would expect from a global war.
You ain't in Kansas anymore, Dot - that is the real answer to the OP's question, wha-happa?
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?