Every time people judge a middle eastern leader for being a bad guy, they take that leader out and it turns out the bad guy was actually holding back an even worse guy.
Leftists are suggesting a mass presidential pardon for every illegal immigrant.
I'm thinking though, that doesn't actually change anything. It isn't like anyone was going to be charged and convicted, they're just going to be kicked out of the country -- and as far as I know you can't pardon your way out of kicking a foreigner out of the country.
It's like "Congratulations, you're not going to jail, but we weren't going to throw you in jail, just back to Guatemala."
I'm thinking though, that doesn't actually change anything. It isn't like anyone was going to be charged and convicted, they're just going to be kicked out of the country -- and as far as I know you can't pardon your way out of kicking a foreigner out of the country.
It's like "Congratulations, you're not going to jail, but we weren't going to throw you in jail, just back to Guatemala."
Most of humanity knew how to live lives that made them happy, but we deconstructed and tore down all the things that made us happy because they were also the things that were difficult and would hold us to account to standards. People thought that once you removed standards and taking responsibility for things that all that's left is happiness, but in reality it's at least trying to hit high standards and at least trying to take responsibility that is the only thing that can help you achieve lasting happiness.
I don't want to be misunderstood as saying there's no such thing as mental health issues, but the *crisis* we face is separate from that. People have always been mentally ill, but it wasn't a civilizational crisis until we tore down everyone's meaning, values, and sense.
"Mental Health" is in some ways a community issue, where individuals are sick because the culture is sick, and common morality is a community solution, helping everyone pull in the same virtuous direction.
Most people who think today is particularly unique don't understand history. We had a lot of technology through many different eras. People had high levels of social cohesiveness during the modern era that preceded the postmodern era we live in where most of our technologies already existed. It was the collapse of meaning in the postmodern era that seems to have correlated with the crises we face.
I don't want to be misunderstood as saying there's no such thing as mental health issues, but the *crisis* we face is separate from that. People have always been mentally ill, but it wasn't a civilizational crisis until we tore down everyone's meaning, values, and sense.
"Mental Health" is in some ways a community issue, where individuals are sick because the culture is sick, and common morality is a community solution, helping everyone pull in the same virtuous direction.
Most people who think today is particularly unique don't understand history. We had a lot of technology through many different eras. People had high levels of social cohesiveness during the modern era that preceded the postmodern era we live in where most of our technologies already existed. It was the collapse of meaning in the postmodern era that seems to have correlated with the crises we face.
I have used the metaphor of China as the West's picture of Dorian Gray. We stop manufacturing anything, we let them burn all the fossil fuels, then we pretend we aren't actually doing it because all the "sins" are contained in the photo.
We have seen some people on the right start to criticize video games and gamers who consume those video games, and they are surprised when they start to get backlash. If you want to go Anita Sarkeeaian on us and start telling gamers why they're bad people for liking things they like, then expect some backlash.
Reality is, the alliance between gamers and the right is and has always been fragile. It is contingent on the idea of "if you can sod off and leave me alone to enjoy what I enjoy, we can be friends". The left used to have the same deal, but they got too big and tried to renegotiate the terms of the deal. It turns out people who just want to do their thing, largely alone in a room by themselves don't want people who aren't even in the same room yapping at them.
I think it's surprising number of the people on the winning coalition on the right at the moment have similar views, that they just want to help whoever will leave them alone.
Now it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask what's the point of having a bunch of people on your side who by definition don't really want to follow your ideas. Besides the fact that you always need supporters whatever system you're living under, the fact is that once you have someone ideologically, cultural osmosis happens regardless. A lot of gamers are looking at changing regardless because upon being exposed to ideas that are fundamentally good they choose willingly to follow those ideas without being attacked into it. As an example, a record number of Bibles are being sold right now, many to first time buyers. That's the new coalition putting their noses down and doing their homework without being prompted.
Reality is, the alliance between gamers and the right is and has always been fragile. It is contingent on the idea of "if you can sod off and leave me alone to enjoy what I enjoy, we can be friends". The left used to have the same deal, but they got too big and tried to renegotiate the terms of the deal. It turns out people who just want to do their thing, largely alone in a room by themselves don't want people who aren't even in the same room yapping at them.
I think it's surprising number of the people on the winning coalition on the right at the moment have similar views, that they just want to help whoever will leave them alone.
Now it's a perfectly reasonable question to ask what's the point of having a bunch of people on your side who by definition don't really want to follow your ideas. Besides the fact that you always need supporters whatever system you're living under, the fact is that once you have someone ideologically, cultural osmosis happens regardless. A lot of gamers are looking at changing regardless because upon being exposed to ideas that are fundamentally good they choose willingly to follow those ideas without being attacked into it. As an example, a record number of Bibles are being sold right now, many to first time buyers. That's the new coalition putting their noses down and doing their homework without being prompted.
Also just pretending you stay the same age forever.
It's not healthy. We age, we get wrinkles, we gain fat, and we change in our minds, growing wiser, more sentimental, more cynical perhaps. Clinging to our early 20s is a recipe for tragedy.
It's not healthy. We age, we get wrinkles, we gain fat, and we change in our minds, growing wiser, more sentimental, more cynical perhaps. Clinging to our early 20s is a recipe for tragedy.
Started laying out my third book today. The second book is a techincal book, the third is a science fiction book.
I mean, the fact that I would never let her live it down kind of makes me the cunt she married LOL
"Could I have a drink hunny?" "Well I'm comfortable" "don't worry about it, I just leaped into a polar bear cage, (that's the latest landbound predator on Earth by the way) to save you but don't worry about it I'll go get my own drink"
"Could I have a drink hunny?" "Well I'm comfortable" "don't worry about it, I just leaped into a polar bear cage, (that's the latest landbound predator on Earth by the way) to save you but don't worry about it I'll go get my own drink"
Ngl, if I ever did this for my wife she'd never hear the end of it. She'd for sure wish the polar bear had finished me off.
I could absolutely imagine it as some spoiled rich kid who never got the memo that you're not actually supposed to act on your luxury beliefs, you're just supposed to cash the checks and pretend you hate capitalism.
I'm still a bit of a doomer economically in the immediate near term, but things will get better after that.