Drugs & Violence

[Naga_Fireball]

I love you guys. For having a place to talk.


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So. Now that the entire developed world has its mouth lip locked on the Internet tit. People walking off cliffs "catching pokemon". Etc. Can we just be honest and admit that for such humans, the games have replaced drugs.

So how come all these rabidly screen glued wide eyed addicts arent out killing and raping? They are getting the fix for less cost, is why.

Internet is a pay later addiction. Definitely.

I posit that the lions share of drug violence is actually related to the cost of the drug and associated stressors including legality.

Do I want our streets full of meth and heroin? No of course not. But walking off cliffs for pokemon actually happens IRL now, will people accept the human cost of one addiction yet ignore another,

Because the internet is like buying drugs with credit, you pay interest in time and health... And IQ loss etc motor skills peripheral vision.


Not to mention, hee, James Holmes and Anders Breivik. We cant blame cocaine yet the e-drug companies Blizzard et all get away with murder by proxy and continue to market theur crack.





Am I too fascist to get the point of capitalism?

[Hermit]

There's an even more insidious addiction that has a stronger sway over people. It requires little, if no, electricity, and if used correctly can feed entire neighbourhoods. It's called "gardening".

If the power goes out? Who cares! If it's raining? Awesome! If it snows? Great!

If every home owner was able to convert the size of their home into a reasonable living space, meaning "smaller", with land used on a permaculture theme, namely using an ethic of protect the earth, protect your neighbour, and share your bounty with the land and your neighbours, I doubt very much there would be as many shootings as there currently are.

Naga, I know the stats are something like 3 guns for every man, woman, and child. How many hoes, spades, and rakes? Or worse yet, computers?

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With reference to your final statement, "Am I too fascist to get the point of capitalism?" You've said something absolutely brilliant. *IF* the world was actually living under a true capitalist model, we would be living in a permaculture paradise! We live in a world that equates Capitalism with evil, a world where regulators who are getting rich want us to think that this is what Capitalism is; they want the revolution, they want us to initiate the revolution so they can be in charge legitimately. That, my dear friend, is the true root of Fascism. Fascism is at it's very core the self-determination of a people to slavery for the betterment of the controlling elite at the cost of personal freedoms to individuals and groups who are not members of that elite. It is at it's heart socialism gone wrong, and because it is so extremely left of centre, people often (and I suspect those who want/need us to be in that direction support this fallacy) associate it with the extreme right. But it ain't. Capitalism, when it functions correctly, uninterrupted with by taxation or government regulation, works! At least in the very (VERY) few far eastern countries that have minimal (MINIMAL) regulations.

Pax.

[Naga_Fireball]

Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
I'm stuck on floor 2 but envy my neighbor who gardens. She is talented and has major green thumb.

Iirc there is a P patch here with space.
Thanks for the healthy suggestion & I do hope to get into it.


Ty for explaining fascism. That makes sense. F herbert said the far left are closet aristocrats. In essence I suppose the French revolution was a response to its earlier form, feudalism?

Famous Quotes

Fascism is not in

itself a new order of

society. It is the

future refusing to be

born. – Aneurin

Bevan

In democracy its your

vote that counts.

In feudalism its your

count that votes. –

Mogens Jallberg

[Naga_Fireball]

To be fair to the Techies of Peace Lol,
I saw this gentle giant type very fat but serenely happy kid sort of walk-levitating up the sidewalk with a vaguely joyous expression, as I rode the city bus..

But Frank Herbert's Bene Gesserit claim in God Emperor that the concept of strife originated with the first living cell.


Are we to rise above the roots of our original violence and wither in the lack of physical stimulus?

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I recently have found myself realizing the actual difference between amoral evolutionists and the Jedi type schools of thought where losing is actually winning...

Shezbeth could probably help me out here and play Darwins advocate but he seems to be MIA