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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 1, 2021 12:09:52 GMT -8
I was a bit astounded by the frankness of that one yute who wrote that opinion piece -- the one Rod linked to in his initial article.
I'm like -- wow -- it's even worse than I thought. And I wouldn't put this down to mere confirmation bias. Nothing this kid said surprised me. And I had inklings of much of it but not all of it. After all, I don't hang around with yutes of that general age group. I can read about them and try to piece together what they are really thinking from their invective or BS (such as "Marxist soy boy ray.") But dammed if that boy didn't just come out and say it.
Again, maybe he's right. Maybe he's wrong. But he abided by that old Reagan maxim: Don't be afraid to see what you see.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 1, 2021 19:23:25 GMT -8
There is one thing about which he is undeniably correct, A large percentage of today's yutes are fat slobs and sloughs in a way that American yutes have never been before. This is simply a natural progression of what has been taking place for 30-40 years. Computers and social media merely sped up the pace.
As I have mentioned before, there were only two chubby kids in the schools I attended. And they weren't pigs, just a bit zaftig.
The yutes the writer describes sound like a bunch of 60 and 70 year-olds physically.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 1, 2021 20:26:17 GMT -8
I think there are a lot of issues at play here. The Kid (and Rod) must have touched on twenty or more.
Many I think bear the tentacles of feminisms. In the broad view, boys have been marginalized. I think this is one of the primary or ultimate causes. The secondary causes are getting fat, being lazy, etc.
That kid touched on (surprisingly) the idea that a lot of singe-parent families are just not the right place to raise men. We also know one of the other primary causes: Having things too easy.
The third (if we are to have a proper trinity) would be the spiritual/psychological ennui that comes from the acid-drip of the unholy trinity of Marxism/Freudiansim/Darwinism.
So, baste anyone (include kids) in the muck of feminism, spiritual/psychological ennui, and having things too easy and you have a recipe for all the subsidiary causes we see. And all this is mixed up in and amplified by the poison of "social media."
It really does sound like a disaster in the making out there.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 1, 2021 20:34:12 GMT -8
Sometime in the 1970s when living in Europe, I came across someone or read some German philosopher (I can't recall which) who pointed out that "the struggle is what is important in life." That has stuck with me these 40-50 years. Of course, this is largely correct. If one doesn't have to work and strive for something, one does not value it very highly. If things come too easily, one generally doesn't appreciate the gift called life, plus one has little true self-respect as one has done little-to-nothing of value.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 1, 2021 20:54:55 GMT -8
Anyone living in the West has had it easy compared to any other time or place in history. Even the things I struggle with are not the primary food-clothing-shelter triad that has always been the basis for most struggles (other than evading predators and murderers of one kind or another).
And yet I had to work hard for what I have. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. The idea of having to work was instilled early and often.
And yet there seems a greater poison at work here than just laziness.To me, this quote says a lot:
The sheer pessimism of the Left has been the greatest instance of mass child abuse the world has ever known. Everyone can't be a victim. But clearly a lot of these kids have been absolutely failed by: parents, teachers, politicians, and you can add in entertainers, cops, the FBI, the media and about any other institution you can think of.
In effect they have been mind-fucked. Perhaps we can understand many kids turning inward. It is the only avenue to get away from the craziness....akin to the masses of people who have left liberal cities and such.
And I blame most of this on feminism. Until I am proven wrong (not likely), I'll keep saying this.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 2, 2021 15:38:40 GMT -8
I believe most people need to work in order to achieve a sense of accomplishment. (Maybe not intellectuals)
The rest of what that writer is talking about is, more or less, vegetating. Existence without any type of creative impulse or creation.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 10, 2021 14:31:10 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 12, 2021 8:59:13 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 18, 2021 16:30:29 GMT -8
I don't know exactly where to post this, but I think it is a very good example of how the world works without some very tough measures to maintain control. It sounds like a few .22 calibers and 20 and 12 gauge shotguns might solve the problem pretty sharp. Simians snap
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 18, 2021 18:45:04 GMT -8
Wow. I've never seen anything like that. And although I fully concur with the .22 or shotgun. I believe this gun would do the trick:
Grenades would be optional.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 18, 2021 20:39:45 GMT -8
I believe this gun would do the trick: Any belt fed weapon is going to do the job.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 18, 2021 21:12:19 GMT -8
There's a lesson in this for conservatives. I'm not for throwing blameless dogs off a wall. But at least monkeys know when they have been attacked. And they do something about it. If the monkeys were led by George W. Bush, the primates would have all been "reaching across the aisle" to the dogs.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 19, 2021 11:51:17 GMT -8
You mention one of many lessons to be learned. There are lessons at many levels here. In my opinion, the biggest lesson to be learned is the basic way nature works. The monkeys may have been attacked without provocation, (I doubt that as there are continual problems with monkey bands in India) but as is the nature of the beast, they struck back hard and again, as is the nature of the beast, the monkeys got the taste of blood and winning and pushed things further and further. Uncontested victories impelled them to go further until they started going crazy and attacking humans, who presumably had nothing to do with this.
What you are seeing is nature run riot on blood and victory. The little bastards can't help themselves and are forcing others to unite against them. Without some sort of control, nature runs off the boards. This is why Libertarianism never works. It only ends up in blood or stupor.
By the way, one should also note the difference in species here. Clearly, dogs, monkeys and men don't naturally get along unless some sort of social order is imposed or a couple of the three is eradicated.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 19, 2021 11:59:47 GMT -8
LMAO. I didn't offhand see a libertarian critique in that but I knew there was more material to be mined.
Of course, George W. Bush did hit back hard after the monkeys attacked the twin towers. But I suspect the monkeys never said about the dogs that they were "Canines of Peace," although it's difficult to put the simians in the role of the good-guys. Certainly the dogs would never say it was just a few of the monkeys who were bad and that otherwise they were "Simians of Peace."
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 19, 2021 12:16:07 GMT -8
Frankly, I see a lot of material which could be mined in this simple piece, but I am still too tired to give much thought and effort to write about it. I lost 16-17 lbs in a week which is a bit much. It will probably be a while before I can sit down and really concentrate.
As to libertarian themes, let's just say that the whole thing starts off in a "state of nature" which Rousseau raved about, and modern-day libertarians seem to agree with. They think everything will end up just fine, whereas we understand what happened with the dogs and monkeys is more the norm, thus has to be dealt with with external force.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 19, 2021 12:45:45 GMT -8
Mr. Flu's Patented Weight Loss Program.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 19, 2021 13:13:14 GMT -8
It comes with a cat-o-nine-tails with which one can speed along the weight-loss process. Frankly, I don't recommend the program. In addition to the body-wracking pain caused by the lung problems, there were a few days and nights there during which I visited places new to me. I did come up with a fair amount of material for writing some stories, but have forgotten most of the strange themes over the last couple of days or so.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 9, 2022 13:03:26 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Jan 9, 2022 15:27:25 GMT -8
Which had the more deleterious effect on this boy's mental state?
1) The drugs his mother consumed when pregnant.
2) The genetic mental problems he inherited from his mother.
3) The crazy environment he grew up in.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 9, 2022 16:09:35 GMT -8
Since I don't know if Sine-Aid took drugs (extra credit if you know where that name comes from), I'm going with #3 for sure. That said, intellectual honesty demands that I mention that even good conservative parents have lost kids to the Cult of Progressivism. Still, I'm going to err on the side of "she was just another liberal nut in the entertainment industry."
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