There has always been a fascination with the villain. Whether it is Dracula, Robin Hood, the Mafia, serial killers, Professor Moriarty, up to and including Satan himself. Probably just because of the fantasy of being free of the restrictions of morality Because, as we all know so well, those restrictions are to keep others in check, our own motivations are as pure as the driven snow... :)
There has also been a culture of conspicuous consumption. Whether it is a $22 smoothie, a rare tidbit covered in gold leaf, or crappy fish eggs. It always works up until the kid says that the Emperor is naked and breaks the spell. More telling is that the conspicuous item is a $22 smoothie rather than the $2200 handbag or the $220,000 car...
The problem with a lot of retirement and pension systems is the fact that they have been used to buy votes by promising other people's money in a ponzi scheme. It doesn't matter if we are talking about the USPS retirement or the Social Security system. The fact that they are playing fast and loose with it is just them trying to make up for the fact that they promised more than they were able to ever be able to pay. Don't worry though, they will just keep kicking the can down the road to be solved by someone else until it totally collapses.
Yes, temporary. Like freezing tax allowances for five years as a "temporary" austerity measure, and two years in saying five won't be enough "temporary" and we need a second period of five years added to it
You were saying; "Eventually, we land at wrong is right." and I saw it happening, especially during the Covid PsyOp. It's a quandary, as we're subjected to media propaganda so convincing and powerful these days, making it much more difficult to assess truth and reality.
The "bad actors" of Covid had an agenda that relied on deception and manipulation, not only to sway and convince the public but also to legitimize their crimes.
It was a "set up" in the works for years, decades even, incremental nudges and normalization of immoral deceptions such as false advertising, and virtue signaling. It's allowed, apparently to bend the truth (for the greater good?) or maybe just huge payouts for the perpetrators.
But I wonder if somewhere down the line it will come back to haunt them, because eventually they will be seen as the villains they are, when the walls come tumbling down.
And as a rebel myself I know that even "the bad guy" is in need of understanding, and that "wrongdoing" is sometimes the right thing, when seen from a different perspective based on truth and reality, we didn't see before.
Shut the USPS down. It’s a money pit. We The People can’t afford to pay the wages and salaries of this obsolete monster. People will either use alternatives which already exist (email, UPS, Amazon) or invent new solutions without the overhead.
We never needed Dubya’s TSA, so fire them all too.
Seems like the gray area that could become the slippery slope rests in “legislation” that is clearly unconstitutional and entirely detrimental to one’s own survival. At what point should we disregard “laws” and mandates that are clearly harmful to the populace? That said, I do agree with you about the elevation of the bad guy in today’s society. Admittedly, it’s because I’ve fallen prey to the whole “he got what he had coming” notion once or thrice. One of our toughest commands is to love our enemies. Without a strong faith, it’s virtually impossible.
There has always been a fascination with the villain. Whether it is Dracula, Robin Hood, the Mafia, serial killers, Professor Moriarty, up to and including Satan himself. Probably just because of the fantasy of being free of the restrictions of morality Because, as we all know so well, those restrictions are to keep others in check, our own motivations are as pure as the driven snow... :)
There has also been a culture of conspicuous consumption. Whether it is a $22 smoothie, a rare tidbit covered in gold leaf, or crappy fish eggs. It always works up until the kid says that the Emperor is naked and breaks the spell. More telling is that the conspicuous item is a $22 smoothie rather than the $2200 handbag or the $220,000 car...
The problem with a lot of retirement and pension systems is the fact that they have been used to buy votes by promising other people's money in a ponzi scheme. It doesn't matter if we are talking about the USPS retirement or the Social Security system. The fact that they are playing fast and loose with it is just them trying to make up for the fact that they promised more than they were able to ever be able to pay. Don't worry though, they will just keep kicking the can down the road to be solved by someone else until it totally collapses.
Yes, temporary. Like freezing tax allowances for five years as a "temporary" austerity measure, and two years in saying five won't be enough "temporary" and we need a second period of five years added to it
You were saying; "Eventually, we land at wrong is right." and I saw it happening, especially during the Covid PsyOp. It's a quandary, as we're subjected to media propaganda so convincing and powerful these days, making it much more difficult to assess truth and reality.
The "bad actors" of Covid had an agenda that relied on deception and manipulation, not only to sway and convince the public but also to legitimize their crimes.
It was a "set up" in the works for years, decades even, incremental nudges and normalization of immoral deceptions such as false advertising, and virtue signaling. It's allowed, apparently to bend the truth (for the greater good?) or maybe just huge payouts for the perpetrators.
But I wonder if somewhere down the line it will come back to haunt them, because eventually they will be seen as the villains they are, when the walls come tumbling down.
And as a rebel myself I know that even "the bad guy" is in need of understanding, and that "wrongdoing" is sometimes the right thing, when seen from a different perspective based on truth and reality, we didn't see before.
Shut the USPS down. It’s a money pit. We The People can’t afford to pay the wages and salaries of this obsolete monster. People will either use alternatives which already exist (email, UPS, Amazon) or invent new solutions without the overhead.
We never needed Dubya’s TSA, so fire them all too.
Seems like the gray area that could become the slippery slope rests in “legislation” that is clearly unconstitutional and entirely detrimental to one’s own survival. At what point should we disregard “laws” and mandates that are clearly harmful to the populace? That said, I do agree with you about the elevation of the bad guy in today’s society. Admittedly, it’s because I’ve fallen prey to the whole “he got what he had coming” notion once or thrice. One of our toughest commands is to love our enemies. Without a strong faith, it’s virtually impossible.
Yes it’s definitely a challenge to “love your enemies”. We posed this as a question for all in a Substack note this morning: https://substack.com/@collapselife/note/c-241915892?r=2qggrf&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action