SimonF Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 a familiar ideology... [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqXXO0GGNRI]
Rick Horton Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 a familiar ideology... [View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqXXO0GGNRI] LOL!!! What bullshit!!! Talk about fantasy!!! "lets all just have free money!"...
Guest darkskyabove Posted March 24, 2013 Posted March 24, 2013 Thanks, SimonF, for the update on the latest madness. Although there still exists a dim glow in the distance, the tunnel grows darker. I suppose I have the "right" to have children I cannot afford to raise, because they will have a "guaranteed" income. Or, does my "guaranteed" income automatically increase every time I have a new child? I suppose I have the "right" to a cell phone, high-speed internet, a credit card, and artificially depressed prices for food and energy, because these are "necessities" in the modern world. Ultimately, I suppose I have the "right" to tell other people what to do with their lives, because everyone must sacrifice themselves to my well-being. (And if all of you don't start sending me money, I'll make a video about how unfair you are.) One of the most frustrating aspects, for me, is that people have believed false predictions for millenia. The one time, as far as I can tell, someone has made an accurate prediction of the future, it is disregarded, at best, mocked, at worst. That prediction comes from a book now over 50 years old: "Atlas Shrugged". Without quibbling over details, Ayn Rand made a good case for what would happen as Statism continued to reach its slimy tentacles into every facet of our lives. When humans were used to a more brutal existence, the only way the State could succeed was by being the most brutal. As humans have become more "civilized", the State has realized that direct force and fear are not as productive to their ends. The State has learned how to play one's emotions like a fiddle. Of course, they now have an enormous advantage in the indoctrination of the young; called public education. But how to account for the people who went to public schools, who have recognized the inadequacies, moved to a higher level of knowledge, yet still won't realize the fallacy of the State. I say it is the emotional context. All recent, going back about 50 years, proposals for State encroachment have been expressed in emotional terms. Ohhh, we've just got to help the ... (insert your favorite cause.) What about those of us who do not want help? What about those of us who will, gladly, help a neighbor, but resist being forced to help "everybody"? The new "trick" of Statism is the emotional manipulation. Politicians have learned this fallacious rhetoric to a tee: "Politics is the art of lying while appearing totally sincere." In a twisted way, I say, let them continue. The sooner their ideology, or lack thereof, bankrupts their system, the sooner real people can try to rebuild. (I do feel a twinge of sympathy for the ignorant.) Not sure that Statists can truly do any more damage, except to start eating into their own lives. By the time the Statists are FORCED to recognize the errors of their ways, it will be far too late for them. An analogy is the theist who DOESN'T find out that there is no afterlife, as his corpse is consumed by the worms. Mmmm, wormfood.
SimonF Posted March 25, 2013 Author Posted March 25, 2013 LOL!!! What bullshit!!! Talk about fantasy!!! "lets all just have free money!"... It seems to me that as the fascistic state collapses under its economic fallacies and most people get poorer, they swing over to Marxian economic fallacies like this instead. Having said that I do think there are legitimate reasons to require the banks and financial elites to return a lot of the wealth that they and the state have plundered together.
nathanm Posted March 25, 2013 Posted March 25, 2013 Hmmm, that plan will never work cause you can't play the guitar on the MTV anymore.
Alan C. Posted March 26, 2013 Posted March 26, 2013 In psychology, the term "arrested development" was used to refer to a person with impaired cognitive development. A person would age and appear adultlike while retaining the reasoning ability of a child. It didn't mean that they were mentally retarded; they simply lacked life experience or were raised in an environment which didn't foster growth. Although the video was likely produced by an adult, it was conceived by the mind of a child or adolescent.
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