Subjectivist wrote:
This makes me wonder if, once the hot summer season arrives, we will see riots like those that tore up Baltimore and Saint Louis during President Obama's second term this year?
Those anti-police riots were aided and abbetted by the same kind of city leadership we have recently seen exposed in Berkley California, making me wonder just how widespread this instabillity is? No culture can survive long without some form of control over these riot events. Targeting Police is particularly effective in destabilising things if those police do not get government and citizen support as a result.
Revi wrote:I just read a very interesting book where the author says that when resources run short human societies almost always have a "witch hunt". They look for a group to blame it on, whether they have anything to do with it or not. It's always in the name of some kind of an ideology. In Salem they picked on widows who may have been living on farms they wanted. In Guatemala they called the Catholic Indigenous Mayan people "communists" to separate them from the resources that were underneath the land they lived on. It's an old story.
asg70 wrote:The internet also unfortunately drives people to the poles. There are many who now propose we split the US up into red vs. blue states because of the left/right polarization reaching such dangerous levels. We've lost the ability to have civil discourse. We don't value pluralism anymore. Everything's an ideogical tug of war where you're either with us or against us. Much of the debate here between certain posters is part and parcel of that phenomenon. I think most people these days are closed-minded in a very tribalist sort of way.
efarmer wrote:Mad Max and The Overshoot Predator showed up at my door last Halloween. They didn't say "trick or treat" when I opened the door but instead just grabbed all the candy and ran off into the night. I watched them disappear into the darkness while the Grim Reaper and his two kids, Spiderman and Cinderella took down all the toilet paper in my trees and rolled it up and made off with that. A guy dressed up as Alex Jones came next, he hollered and ranted, then composed himself and apologized for getting too emotional. I told him I was all out of candy, he said he just wanted money anyhow so I gave him a couple of bucks and I watched him whizz in my bushes before he ambled off down the street. The next morning, my neighbor told me he saw an alien with led lights all over his costume steal crap from inside of my car. I am powering down this year and putting out some beware of dog signs.
asg70 wrote:The internet also unfortunately drives people to the poles. There are many who now propose we split the US up into red vs. blue states because of the left/right polarization reaching such dangerous levels. We've lost the ability to have civil discourse. We don't value pluralism anymore. Everything's an ideogical tug of war where you're either with us or against us. Much of the debate here between certain posters is part and parcel of that phenomenon. I think most people these days are closed-minded in a very tribalist sort of way.
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