06-15-2022, 09:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2022, 09:07 AM by FlyingClayDisk.)
Society stops being stupid when society understands the fundamental problem, when they understand the disease not the symptom. But those are just cliche' words, too easy to say. So, here's a different way of saying it.
The fundamental problem as I see it is society does not truly understand the nature of incremental change. How often do we hear things like..."Well, when (this, really BIG thing) happens, THEN people will be out in the street with pitchforks and torches, and by-cracky, I'll be right out there with 'em!! Damn Straight!!"...? We hear that all the time. In fact, someone even said something similar in this very thread.
People are always waiting for the Moon to crash into the Sun, or Armageddon, or a Solar Flare (or whatever). People need to understand these changes happen incrementally, and they're small. There's probably never going to be that BIG event which triggers everyone. In the meantime people should be getting incrementally more angry about small incremental changes. But they don't do this; what they do is get mad a little bit today and then calm down later. Then when something happens they get a little mad, and calm down again. They're resetting every time. This is almost a textbook definition of 'apathy'. People are accepting the incremental hurt which creeps into their lives, and swearing they'll act when the Sun doesn't come up tomorrow. Well, people aren't going to live long enough for the Sun to not come up tomorrow, so they need to be getting pissed off about toilet paper prices going up $0.27. And getting even more pissed off when the same toilet paper goes up another $0.05, and so on. People need to say today, right now, when the price of toilet paper goes up by $1 dollar and nine cents, I am going to REVOLT, and I'm not going to stop revolting until the price of toilet paper goes down AT LEAST one dollar and nine cents! Period.
And whatever that revolt means (be it stopping buying toilet paper and using a sandpaper instead, whatever it is), they need to stick to it!
This is how I operate. Some things are peaceful, like stopping buying something. Others are less peaceful, like someone laying claim to something which is mine. That is going to be met with force...every time.
People just refuse to understand incremental change. They just can't get this concept through their thick skulls.
(...and the government knows this, and they love it too! They use it against the American people every single day, passing more and more laws...incrementally encroaching on freedoms, rights, income and you name it)
Enough!
The fundamental problem as I see it is society does not truly understand the nature of incremental change. How often do we hear things like..."Well, when (this, really BIG thing) happens, THEN people will be out in the street with pitchforks and torches, and by-cracky, I'll be right out there with 'em!! Damn Straight!!"...? We hear that all the time. In fact, someone even said something similar in this very thread.
People are always waiting for the Moon to crash into the Sun, or Armageddon, or a Solar Flare (or whatever). People need to understand these changes happen incrementally, and they're small. There's probably never going to be that BIG event which triggers everyone. In the meantime people should be getting incrementally more angry about small incremental changes. But they don't do this; what they do is get mad a little bit today and then calm down later. Then when something happens they get a little mad, and calm down again. They're resetting every time. This is almost a textbook definition of 'apathy'. People are accepting the incremental hurt which creeps into their lives, and swearing they'll act when the Sun doesn't come up tomorrow. Well, people aren't going to live long enough for the Sun to not come up tomorrow, so they need to be getting pissed off about toilet paper prices going up $0.27. And getting even more pissed off when the same toilet paper goes up another $0.05, and so on. People need to say today, right now, when the price of toilet paper goes up by $1 dollar and nine cents, I am going to REVOLT, and I'm not going to stop revolting until the price of toilet paper goes down AT LEAST one dollar and nine cents! Period.
And whatever that revolt means (be it stopping buying toilet paper and using a sandpaper instead, whatever it is), they need to stick to it!
This is how I operate. Some things are peaceful, like stopping buying something. Others are less peaceful, like someone laying claim to something which is mine. That is going to be met with force...every time.
People just refuse to understand incremental change. They just can't get this concept through their thick skulls.
(...and the government knows this, and they love it too! They use it against the American people every single day, passing more and more laws...incrementally encroaching on freedoms, rights, income and you name it)
Enough!