Holy crap. Is the entire generation of 18-25 year old people going insane, or what?Troy wrote:This isn't my favorite privelage. My favorite is Thin Privelage.
White Male Privilege
First country that invades us in 50 years or so, we'll fall like cards.GORDON wrote:Holy crap. Is the entire generation of 18-25 year old people going insane, or what?Troy wrote:This isn't my favorite privelage. My favorite is Thin Privelage.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
We simply have no adversity.
There's no world war forcing people into service. Everyone has a phone and a TV and internet access. The cold war is over.
Everyone's out trying to find a cause or a purpose.
That's why there's so much stupid shit floating to the surface these days.
We need an enemy or a massive disaster with lasting effects to make the stupid shit go away. China never really stepped up as the next "big bad".
Save us Putin, you're our only hope!
There's no world war forcing people into service. Everyone has a phone and a TV and internet access. The cold war is over.
Everyone's out trying to find a cause or a purpose.
That's why there's so much stupid shit floating to the surface these days.
We need an enemy or a massive disaster with lasting effects to make the stupid shit go away. China never really stepped up as the next "big bad".
Save us Putin, you're our only hope!
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Everyone's out trying to find a cause or a purpose.
I'm not. The fuck would I want one of those for?
We need an enemy or a massive disaster with lasting effects to make the stupid shit go away.
What an awesome species this is.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
That's just natural selection. Without outside pressure or stress, even the stupid live long enough to reproduce. And, our current society actually encourages the weak and stupid to reproduce.Malcolm wrote:What an awesome species this is.We need an enemy or a massive disaster with lasting effects to make the stupid shit go away.
We are bringing the upcoming disaster upon ourselves. This is exactly how we want it.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
The biggest problem is we have no more frontiers. Historically when things got too stupid, the best and brightest would go out to whatever the colony or frontier was that was being pushed at that time. It would be many many years - sometimes even centuries - before the stupids all caught up with them.
With no more frontiers there's no more self-selection and we're just basking in the stupid. We need to start colonizing space. Soon.
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With no more frontiers there's no more self-selection and we're just basking in the stupid. We need to start colonizing space. Soon.
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What an awesome species this is.
Eh, we're still young in the grand scheme of things. Give us a challenge, and we keep busy trying to beat it. Give us nothing to do, and we act like the children we are.
But frontiers are where natural selection can still take care of that problem.
A massive space race would be awesome.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Give us a challenge, and we keep busy trying to beat it. Give us nothing to do, and we act like the children we are.
Why waste all that time setting goals when you could just go do shit? Do you really need external pressure to force you to? If all it takes to wipe out humanity is tiny window of boredom, perhaps the aliens are avoiding us on purpose.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Why waste all that time setting goals when you could just go do shit? Do you really need external pressure to force you to?
First day as a part of humanity?
History might be full of interesting people who did interesting things, but for every one of those there are tens of thousands more who didn't do shit.
With no obstacle to climb publicly, the dumber voices have more volume.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
It would stand to reason that it makes the non-stupid louder. Or more willing to tell the stupid to sit down and shut up.
If Godzilla showed up tomorrow and attacked New York, I'll bet it'd be the last time in years that we'd hear about Sam who was born a man, but identifies as a woman named Samantha and how she should be allowed to fight as a woman in the UFC's Female division.
(The names aren't correct, but that's an actual debate current going on.)
If Godzilla showed up tomorrow and attacked New York, I'll bet it'd be the last time in years that we'd hear about Sam who was born a man, but identifies as a woman named Samantha and how she should be allowed to fight as a woman in the UFC's Female division.
(The names aren't correct, but that's an actual debate current going on.)
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
It would stand to reason that it makes the non-stupid louder. Or more willing to tell the stupid to sit down and shut up.
Sounds the non-stupid are slacking off or aren't motivated and the stupid are a constant. The latter group doesn't seem like the problem.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
You're looking at it the wrong way.
When you have a very visible obstacle that we all face, we are all more likely to be interested in things about it. Thus, bullshit gets ignored no matter how loud the morons are that scream it.
Without that very visible obstacle, everyone is less focused and they hear the morons yelling, so they listen to what they have to say.
This is human nature 101. Idle hands and such.
Our society faces issues, big fucking issues, but they're not as apparent to the masses.
Godzilla would be a major threat, but if he was invisible he'd be just as big a threat, but you'd have a harder time rallying people.
When you have a very visible obstacle that we all face, we are all more likely to be interested in things about it. Thus, bullshit gets ignored no matter how loud the morons are that scream it.
Without that very visible obstacle, everyone is less focused and they hear the morons yelling, so they listen to what they have to say.
This is human nature 101. Idle hands and such.
Our society faces issues, big fucking issues, but they're not as apparent to the masses.
Godzilla would be a major threat, but if he was invisible he'd be just as big a threat, but you'd have a harder time rallying people.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
Thus, bullshit gets ignored no matter how loud the morons are that scream it.
I'm still having trouble with this. That means WWII and the Cold War produced ... less bullshit than today?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Sure.
There's always bullshit. ALWAYS. There are always crazy people. There are always conspiracy theorists. There are always people only looking out for themselves.
I'm just saying their influence is lessened when there is a national crisis or a goal that we all are striving to achieve.
There's always bullshit. ALWAYS. There are always crazy people. There are always conspiracy theorists. There are always people only looking out for themselves.
I'm just saying their influence is lessened when there is a national crisis or a goal that we all are striving to achieve.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” - Dr Thomas Sowell
There's always the same bullshit (see the First Law of Bullshitdynamics) it's just that during wartime it's easier to ignore because there's more important things to do.
It's like your girlfriend always being worried about those pants making her look fat, but who gives a crap about that when the house is on fire put on the damn pants so we can go outside before we die!
It's like your girlfriend always being worried about those pants making her look fat, but who gives a crap about that when the house is on fire put on the damn pants so we can go outside before we die!
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