I've lived among the violent psychopaths of this world. I've felt their cold, blind, rage. They seemed like they were programmed to be viciously brutal. All humanity leaves them in an instant. They pounce like the mercilessly programmed mechanical dog in Fahrenheit 451.
It's not much consolation but I assure you they eventually come to …
I've lived among the violent psychopaths of this world. I've felt their cold, blind, rage. They seemed like they were programmed to be viciously brutal. All humanity leaves them in an instant. They pounce like the mercilessly programmed mechanical dog in Fahrenheit 451.
It's not much consolation but I assure you they eventually come to a bad end. They either age out and drink themselves to death or die fighting someone younger or more vicious or their drug of choice kills them. Karma is real although it comes too late to give solace to the brute's many victims. But you must believe me karma is real and it will eventually get them.
I now live among the folks who believe the narrative. (See I didn’t even have to spell that out.You all know what narrative.) My new hood is filled with “Hate has no...Bla, bla signs and black BLM flags. If Monty Python were to write a script about this new cult there would be a chanting procession of guilty white folks with black BLM flags and “no hate” signs self flagellating and holding a sacrifice lottery. But alas comedy is dead-er than the lottery loser. So far they usually go to someone else's neighborhood to break windows. Cowards do that don't cha know. I hope their victims don't follow them home.
Perhaps we should start by mocking these imbeciles and their narrative. That would be karma enough for me and a good start.
Totally agree with you re-comedy. When I talk to friends from foreign lands these days, instead of coming up with some silly jokes as I've done my entire life I simply open local news from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and read them out loud. Forget about the Pythons: no one could write most of this stuff. Armando Ianucci had a show on BBC called The Thick of It, a mockery of Brit politics. Season 2 had a special called Rise of the Nutters. We are living through this rise. Tragically, this nutterness comes with real-life consequences in loss of life, limb, mind, and soul.
It would all be hilarious if the real world consequences of mocking these cretins were not so harsh and final. I still find it hard to believe that people who consider themselves liberal are oK with destroying people over a difference of opinion. Silence is violence unless it’s required by the G_Ds of Right Think.
It's still dangerous in many work environments to simply point out the absurdities and hypocrocy. As A. Pope said to J. Swift during a similarly politically dangerous period in British history “but this is not the time for any man to talk to the purpose. Truth is a kind of contraband commodity which I would not venture to export,” Back then you could find yourself in the Tower or worse for mis-speaking. Now you can be fired and expelled and even arrested for what someone else considers offensive speech.
As George Carlin said in his “Dirty Words” routine - ‘I wish they would just give us a list’ Then the innocent among us (not me) could know where not to go.
A lot of what is going on seems like a large scale real life version of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Each of us has a tool at our disposal that we could use to inflict serious pain upon others, not just with impunity, but often earning praise in the process. If someone convinces you that doing so is in fact for the betterment of humankind, how could you say no? If you think about the case of Smith College, one could argue that if the student had shot the cafeteria worker instead of going after her on Facebook that the consequences would have been less damaging. If the person in the video, instead of physically attacking the woman, had taken her photo and blasted it all over Twitter accusing her of racism, that would potenatially bring more harm to her and her family than this attack.
This is a serious danger that has to be reckoned with.
As per mocking, I am sure there are ways. Say, if a flash mob of a tens of thousands of people were to descend on DA Offices across the so called "liberal" cities in order to turn themselves in for the crime of silence, which is violence, that would be a fun event. Or showing up in front of the house of someone with the "silence=violence" sign screaming your lungs out and explaining you are doing so to combat violence?
I've lived among the violent psychopaths of this world. I've felt their cold, blind, rage. They seemed like they were programmed to be viciously brutal. All humanity leaves them in an instant. They pounce like the mercilessly programmed mechanical dog in Fahrenheit 451.
It's not much consolation but I assure you they eventually come to a bad end. They either age out and drink themselves to death or die fighting someone younger or more vicious or their drug of choice kills them. Karma is real although it comes too late to give solace to the brute's many victims. But you must believe me karma is real and it will eventually get them.
I now live among the folks who believe the narrative. (See I didn’t even have to spell that out.You all know what narrative.) My new hood is filled with “Hate has no...Bla, bla signs and black BLM flags. If Monty Python were to write a script about this new cult there would be a chanting procession of guilty white folks with black BLM flags and “no hate” signs self flagellating and holding a sacrifice lottery. But alas comedy is dead-er than the lottery loser. So far they usually go to someone else's neighborhood to break windows. Cowards do that don't cha know. I hope their victims don't follow them home.
Perhaps we should start by mocking these imbeciles and their narrative. That would be karma enough for me and a good start.
Totally agree with you re-comedy. When I talk to friends from foreign lands these days, instead of coming up with some silly jokes as I've done my entire life I simply open local news from the beautiful Pacific Northwest and read them out loud. Forget about the Pythons: no one could write most of this stuff. Armando Ianucci had a show on BBC called The Thick of It, a mockery of Brit politics. Season 2 had a special called Rise of the Nutters. We are living through this rise. Tragically, this nutterness comes with real-life consequences in loss of life, limb, mind, and soul.
It would all be hilarious if the real world consequences of mocking these cretins were not so harsh and final. I still find it hard to believe that people who consider themselves liberal are oK with destroying people over a difference of opinion. Silence is violence unless it’s required by the G_Ds of Right Think.
It's still dangerous in many work environments to simply point out the absurdities and hypocrocy. As A. Pope said to J. Swift during a similarly politically dangerous period in British history “but this is not the time for any man to talk to the purpose. Truth is a kind of contraband commodity which I would not venture to export,” Back then you could find yourself in the Tower or worse for mis-speaking. Now you can be fired and expelled and even arrested for what someone else considers offensive speech.
As George Carlin said in his “Dirty Words” routine - ‘I wish they would just give us a list’ Then the innocent among us (not me) could know where not to go.
A lot of what is going on seems like a large scale real life version of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Each of us has a tool at our disposal that we could use to inflict serious pain upon others, not just with impunity, but often earning praise in the process. If someone convinces you that doing so is in fact for the betterment of humankind, how could you say no? If you think about the case of Smith College, one could argue that if the student had shot the cafeteria worker instead of going after her on Facebook that the consequences would have been less damaging. If the person in the video, instead of physically attacking the woman, had taken her photo and blasted it all over Twitter accusing her of racism, that would potenatially bring more harm to her and her family than this attack.
This is a serious danger that has to be reckoned with.
As per mocking, I am sure there are ways. Say, if a flash mob of a tens of thousands of people were to descend on DA Offices across the so called "liberal" cities in order to turn themselves in for the crime of silence, which is violence, that would be a fun event. Or showing up in front of the house of someone with the "silence=violence" sign screaming your lungs out and explaining you are doing so to combat violence?