Thoughts about our current existence

I'm overloaded with all the weirdness it's like a storm of strange....

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Maybe I should smoke the weed and eat the lobster

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That's another approach!

 

libras

 

no parking in the park..

 

My ability to remember song lyrics from the '70's & '80's is often exceeded by my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen.

 

That's just Nature's way of telling you that you don't really need another snack.

 

Of course, not too long ago and security concerns aside, people would have known to automatically remove their hats and sunglasses when entering a building as being the polite and correct thing to do.

 

Control masquerading as safety.

 

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom." Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Example of control as safety:

Take a filled water bottle to an airport checkpoint. It will be confiscated as a potential explosive device. However, they won't dispose of it as ordnance. They will place your bottle in a trash can next to the checkpoint, alongside all the other potential devices confiscated that day by government agents. Instead of the bomb squad, the janitor will cart it off at 11pm.

That's not a political narrative about control. That's how total control works in real time. A system so well done that the citizenry fails to notice its absurdity of action.

My opinion:

It's theater at best. Might be a jobs program too. Think about when it started and what the economy was like. And what else had just happened.

I can't directly address your post, I'd be too political in my reply.

 

Even I am embarrassed by them.

 

It's, sadly, our current reality. I still haven't figured out how to discuss guns in the USA in a way that can't be interpreted as political endorsement or denunciation. And it's sad, because it's a serious and far-reaching topic that has been highly messaged in media, yet people never really examine much in personal life. I'm in the forks don't make people fat camp, but explaining why the other view is objectionable becomes clouded by the emotion in the various audience segments and devolves. Maybe we're actually confusing being sad over lives lost with the need to change a fundamental legal concept.

How'd I do?

 

I avoid that "guns" discussion because I'm not smart enough to have it without things going downhill very fast.

 

Alex, did you pick up on the song I was trying to do???? (I sure hope so!!..at least you gave me a "like").

 

How's this for fouling up song lyrics-instead of "I'm A Soul Man", I thought the words were "I was SO MAD".

 

Except you're making the assumption everyone understands the principal of mortality or that temporary insanity does not factor in. Not everyone has the right to control who lives and who dies in a given situation. If you can't spell your own name, tie your own shoes, or need help dressing yourself, the idea that you have a right to own a tool capable of taking multiple lives or even your own is rather illogical. Along side the intellectually challenged the mentally ill, blind, or folks with anger management issues really don't deserve a right to such a potentially dangerous tool.

The problems that exist surrounding this dilemma are not easy button questions and answers, which is why our society has so much trouble answering them. Reality, policy, and virtue are just as much of a commodity as corn, soy beans, or flat screen TV's.

When everything is a commodity, nothing is sacred anymore.

This is why policy no longer works in modern society, reality changes to suit policy instead of the other way around. Those with the most gold decide not only policy, but reality as we see it(not as it is).

The idea that a more efficient killing machine has nothing to do with how many people die in a given situation is not at all a sound one. This is why we limit who can have explosives, serve in the military, or law enforcement.

To even try to claim only one side of the issue is emotional is not at all accurate either and does not help at all if the goal is to find a solution.

 

Perhaps you missed this thread?

https://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/wanna-talk-politics-not-here-move-along.18460/

 

Looks like I'm not the only one that did. So why is this thread still up ? How would I know not to reply to this thread when it remains open for discussion ?