The boys over at Metal Hall pointed this one out to me. If you look closely, the Obama “Hopey Changey” logo is very closely related to the Pepsi logo of the 1980s, when Generation X were young teens:
(Image reconstructed by Cowboy Geoff 2.0.)
Could it be they’re playing into Generation X nostalgia?
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
Every so often, I find ideas typed by my compatriots challenged by some readers. There are apparently many misconceptions about what are thought to be new ideas. One of the more frequent challenges centers around originality.
There are two problems with our notion of original ideas. The first is the problem of truth.
There are no original ideas that are useful outside of entertainment. All we have falls within the range of wild fantasy with no particular place to go or things that actually work well.
Since we aren’t in the wild fantasy or entertainment business and at our worst we simply speculate on reasonable possibility, our intellectual property as such pushes toward the ‘probably works well’ gradient.
To anyone’s knowledge, no person invented reality, physics, or metaphysics as systems themselves. The very best creators from (not inventors of) these systems among mankind are relaying to us descriptions, properties, or manifest instantiations derived therefrom as material products we may enjoy.
All of our non-fantasy ideas are drawn from what was already in place prior to us all.
Although the properties of an atom may vary within a range all the way up to electrons blown off the shell and eventually fragmented nucleus, the essential components of an atom are consistent: protons, neutrons and electrons summoned into orbit.
Atoms are instances of structures that actually work using borrowed energy to come into existence. Original ideas are similar in that they describe what can or does already take place. A thinking person is a span of borrowed energy. Some thinking people bring that which works to the forefront among our concepts for a while.
As time has gone on, our simpler concepts have been recombined with others into more complex, often hybridized concepts. Fire. Bonfire. Furnace. Engine.
Notice engines are no longer simply fire or even furnace as such and there are many varieties of engine designs that work. Nor are engines just a hunk of rocky iron ore, or only an ignition system or fuel supply; things also in use in less complex form before our latest engines existed.
Retracing our steps back along the ignition system path, we will find wiring which is copper and insulation material, a power supply, an electrode and so forth, all simpler, less complex instantiations of both material and design idea.
The same goes for fuel supply where we revisit metallurgy and metalworking for piping or tubing, pumps with electric motor wiring, valves, and pressure.
It is fair to state that someone or many others have already described or created fire, metallurgy, fan blades, and tubing. But it does not invalidate the ‘originality’ of the creator of the jet turbine. Nor does the creator’s state of being original or not being original have any bearing on his credibility.
This is the truth of all seemingly original ideas. All any of us can possibly do is recombine or reiterate what was already there to begin with. This brings us immediately to the second problem with our notion of original ideas, beyond our nothing is original revelation.
What is important is not the novelty of any idea, which is as I have shown, a simpleton’s challenge for measuring its value. Instead, for us, an idea increases in value the further away from fantasy and toward the works well when tested gradient it pushes.
There are many arguments that like to point out that religion, tradition and cultures are all social constructs and therefore we should not believe in them, anyone who does is immediately a moron.
This is a piss poor argument which we are frequently confronting, many fool for this. It’s like pointing toward something saying ‘that’s a rock’ and because of this sudden revelation, everyone is immediately disgusted and stigmatised against it, it immediately becomes a taboo because nobody had dared call it simply a ‘rock’ before.
Now they lose all sense of sacredness toward this ‘rock’, unable to see what it symbolically represents and fail to see what it contained beyond the surface. It is now socially worthless and they destroy it to build a landfill, because hey, it’s just a stupid ‘rock’ and we’re modern now anyway so who cares?
Likewise, some halfwits choose to mock more recent beliefs because they are ‘beliefs’, not because they can philosophically underpin the argument and understanding with something greater and more complex - All atheists say God doesn’t exist, a few notice it as cultural expressions similar to those of ancient civilizations, yet most just will not acknowledge anything above the microbial level; but does that automatically defunct a civilization of its moral values? Of its social technology?
No, it means they continue to lie to themselves and follow the same morals with an egalitarian twist of fate where they feast on the carcass of the dead ’God’ ripping out portions of Truths for their own self interest – However, they will be very ‘compassionate’ when spreading this infection until it consumes everything with their charitable biowarfare.
Slowly and steadily they tear it piece by piece until there is nothing but an emptiness and then the values are consumed, this liberates the flesh from the bones as they devour it in a crowd of microbial individualists. They redistribute these morals toward the lesser of society where they can all be ‘Gods’ in their own queer little ‘Right’ and thereby kill the host, the civilization is torn down in decline.
The argument of freedom fighters and liberals is like microbes, using their own tiny social constructs of passive nihilism together in a mob of individualists to deconstruct other more higher reaching social constructs of traditionalism.
They will obfuscate the definitions and the understanding because describing words do not contain profit for you, you poor little microbe, you. They burst the dam of civilization in their down-going materialism and utterly destroy, decay and disease its being.
But us of higher self interest have put that dam there for precisely that reason. The dam is no physical dam as such, but an order, a homeostasis which keeps a certain pressure within it rather than exploding this and dying.
Not only is it an immune system to prevent this decay and preserve homeostasis of civilization, but it also guides a more complex evolution into greater things. Therefore we are going to create God and damn you behind a wall of greater moralistic laws so that you cannot decay and destroy the healthier individuals.
The individuals will build up behind it and be forced through a social technology which will generate productive results out of the group which benefit the survival of civilization to reach into the impossible, into the future by combining multiple interests toward a similar goal.
When you stop generating electricity through this dam, so will the creation of God cease and He will never exist to you - whatever was created will slowly rot as the individual cells rot off the limb and crawl back into the dirt of lower levels of evolution.
Many individuals fail by nature to realise the social constructs damn their counter-productive interests because they are destructive and are not healthy toward our goals. Through its traditions it blocks the counter-productive undercastes and sequestrates their wealth and power to instead push it into long term interests beyond which they can comprehend - It is a technology of the immaterial, a creation, we created these deities for our own survival, we constructed the social deity like a technology underpinning all materialism, for the future reward of materialism in a higher dimension, in the cosmos.
If you’re not kicking and screaming with microbial vengeance by now, we can now appreciate such great social constructs such as;
Gods appear as cultural esoteric expressions of social phenomena at first, local to each civilization. Each God can represent an element of social and various interactions with the environments we find ourselves within, in Ancient Greece you will find Gods of war, love, fear, terror, life and death. Far more interesting then modernity.
In theistic religions we find they converge and are alloyed into a whole, they are less expressive but still great for warfare and justifying greatness. The deities act as specialized abstractions for damnation of the counter-productive self interests and encouraging more desirable and more intelligent, thought-out interests.
With this it creates guilt towards lesser self interests and a higher sense of strength towards socially acceptable constructs which are (in aristocracies) economical for the survival of the civilization, which in turn fuels the growth of great architecture and art.
All Gods and social constructs are subject to change constantly yet preserve their form in formlessness, thereby existing in nothing – they do not exist in the material and explains matter from outside the box, all religions can reinforce properties of social reality.
These act to us as a source of creativity and vitality for creating life of our own as well as sustaining ourselves as biological organisms.
All ideas that are successful are secondhand from natural selection, a set of ideals comes from natural patterns which are proven to be successful through their million years of evolutionary heritage and are reliable.
If we destroy these because we think our technology is superior now, we will have lost an intellectual wealth to which nothing in a million years could successfully replace. Despite our technological prowess, we are primitives in this cosmos and must learn from those entities which have survived eons through it.
Because we’re modern now, we apparently don’t ‘need’ communities or families, or even to respect our own race – we can all be counter-productive and pursue miscegenation under the unholy empire of globalised economics.
It is evident that since the creation of money beyond barter economics it has allowed more atomised societies to exist on the social level, with this it has become possible to not care about other individuals and how they effect us except of course through the TV and media.
Weakened, enfeebled and corrupted are those rotting inside this vault, they are mutating their interpersonal relationships to the point that without some giant sludge monstrosity of mechanical credit they cannot form any bonds between each other the natural way.
Those who seek healthy relationships will notice the need for a form of empathy that can just as easily switch-blade itself into lack of it when the other individuals involved threaten the survival of something greater.
That means, yes care about roles in civilization, such as the masculine and feminine roles in nurturing the generations healthily, so that individuals get what they need - but not to the point of pity and altruism where we are counter-productively intervening with the irreconcilable faults of others and trying to tear down the healthy structures because they are oppressive towards the least helpful.
These are stronger than they could ever be alone. For example, copper and tin are weak on their own yet smelted together they create the much tougher bronze – but that is only that they have bonds to make, some metals produces weaker alloys or simply do not mix. Appreciating the alloyed nature of things is perhaps a greater meaning toward such ideals of benevolence and compassion, yet they are rare in nature and do not mix well with all socializations.
Social constructs will always happen, we just don’t need the ones that halt evolution. The social values, they evolve into laws, a civil barricade against undesired evolutionary paths. The dam builds up the water, energy and discipline channels it elsewhere, somewhere more constructive toward goals.
In a society where public appearance matters more than reality, people are afraid to stand up for self-interest. That’s changing, and a new generation are speaking out and demanding that they be allowed to have nice places without others coming in to take advantage of what they have.
Because we’re used to selling each other stuff, we’re accustomed to presenting our “positive side” to other people.
This means we want to appear like Mother Theresa crossed with Gandhi crossed with Einstein: brilliant, brave, unique, different, tolerant, benevolent and pacifist geniuses who have seen the utter truth and realize that love is the answer, peace is the goal, and that we can all just get along. Now buy my stuff.
Our culture of salespeople doesn’t want to admit that underlying everything we do is self-interest. Altruism? It looks good to a crowd and so gets us ahead. Charity? Looks good on a college application or resume, or it’s a tax break. Democracy? It makes others like us, so it must be good. Underlying human action is always self-interest.
However, when it comes to politics, we choke and with disastrous consequences.
Are Republicans Alienating Hispanic and Muslim Voters?
The increasing flaps over the proposed Islamic center in New York and immigration raise the question of whether the Republican party is alienating two voter bases that the Bush administration went to great lengths to woo.
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Former president George W. Bush heavily courted Muslims in his first campaign, winning 78 percent of the Muslim vote in 2000, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. That number dropped off sharply in 2004, following the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, even though the Bush administration tried to appease American Muslims by making a distinction between terrorists and the rest of the Muslim community.
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Bush captured 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2000 and 44 percent in 2004. – ABC
Leap into life with me, folks: Hispanic and Muslim voters are voting on the basis of self-interest. This means the GOP can pander, but at the end of the day, any action that conflicts with Hispanic or Muslim interests sends them scurrying to the Democrats, for whom they vote most frequently.
There is nothing the GOP can do to attract Hispanics and Muslims. They never were on your side, GOP: you’re not only the white people’s party, but worse, you’re the white middle class over age 30 party. You’re for the mature white kids who want to get their act together and live well.
We can’t blame Muslims and Hispanics for voting for their special interests — but we can recognize that this is a pitfall of diversity: too many special interests cripple government, because it will inevitably offend someone, and neuter it.
Our media talking heads seem to think an ineffective government is great and that everything we know will just continue on as it is if we stop acting as a world policeman or using government to stave off disaster. What they don’t tell you is that we have what we have because of both of those things.
In diversity, any group that rises above the rest immediately becomes seen as a Sugar Daddy that should hand out that wealth to others, and if not, they’ll use their votes as a weapon. We’ve seen this before in nature:
“We are now realizing that half of life on Earth is parasitic — each free-living organism has at least one parasite,” Hughes said. “But very few manipulate behaviors and there is a reason for that — it is likely very costly. The fossil now challenges us to think of what past environments acted as selective forces for such cool tricks to evolve.” – MSN
I’m not calling Muslims and Hispanics parasites. I’m calling Muslims and Hispanics in a majority white USA parasites, and it’s not their fault; it’s diversity’s fault. Diversity makes sure there’s always ethnic conflict and different self-interests clashing. It also ensures that if the majority group acts in its self-interest, there will be outrage, guilt, victimhood and endless, endless whining!
But things are changing. People are starting to say “You know what, I’m not judging you in an absolute sense when I say NIMNH (Not in My Neighborhood). Go do your thing — somewhere else. My neighborhood is a nice place my ancestors worked hard to make nice, and your way of life will wreck it. So shoo!”
Thousands of “drug tourists” sweep into this small, picturesque city in the southeastern part of the Netherlands every day — as many as two million a year, city officials say. Their sole purpose is to visit the city’s 13 “coffee shops,” where they can buy varieties of marijuana with names like Big Bud, Amnesia and Gold Palm without fear of prosecution.
It is an attraction Maastricht and other Dutch border cities would now gladly do without. Struggling to reduce traffic jams and a high crime rate, the city is pushing to make its legalized use of recreational drugs a Dutch-only policy, banning sales to foreigners who cross the border to indulge. But whether the European Union’s free trade laws will allow that is another matter. – NYT
You can smoke weed, support drug use, but not want marijuana dispensaries or shops in your town. You may not want long lines of stoned people in your neighborhood, and while you may think marijuana is 100% OK, you may also feel it’s just as OK to say “not here; elsewhere.”
And what opposes this? Well — inertia, with a side dose of the “good feelings” we get when we feel that others approve of what we do. These good feelings don’t come from having achieved something, like real good feelings; they come from having other people tell us we’re OK. They’re like spiritual junk food, and proportionately addicting:
In the brain, junk food and drugs have some similar effects, the researchers show. Rats habituated to a diet of HoHos, bacon, cheesecake and frosting (or, in journal geekspeak, “palatable energy-dense food readily available for human consumption”) behaved like addicts — they got their junk food fix even when it meant enduring a painful shock.
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The most telling data came from the brains of these animals. The pleasure centers in the rats’ brains became sluggish after becoming habituated to the junky food. Caught in this vicious feedback loop, the rats needed a bigger dose of junk to get the same good feelings. The rats fed junk food had fewer receptors that respond to the feel-good brain signal dopamine as compared to the rats that ate healthful, low-cal chow. – Science News
This is the new face of conservatism. On one side are the globalists, who are defined by (a) international capital and (b) the liberal democracy hybrid of consumerism and leftist politics that ends in absolute rights to the individual, in defiance of common sense, and subsidized by those who are even barely wealthier than the rest.
We’re not saying you’re wrong, or that you’re bad or stupid. Tentatively, temporarily, we embrace relativism. But we are saying: not here. We’re standing up for our self-interests finally and saying that whatever you do is great, but we do things a certain way here, and we don’t want what you’re doing ruining the good thing we’ve got going.
When you wake up to this planet, you realise one thing sticking out the side of people’s heads; their thoughts are not their own but are subservient toward a domesticating agent, a memetic Brainslug.
We can coalesce many ill thought out ideologies with little substance and stereotype them as Crowdism. Crowdism contains memes such as but not limited to; liberalism, egalitarianism, democracy, socialism, communism and greenism.
What unifies these revolting ideologies is that they do not benefit the individual although they claim to be doing so, they are a Brainslug that prefers its own survival over yours individually, because it manipulates you into believing passive lies.
Brainslug owns the population, the majority do not think for themselves and have this parasite wedged into their skull awaiting big daddy Technium to erupt from the Hivemind – or in terms the above average human should understand, ecocide and death, whatever prevails after that is not concerned with the ecology as we know it, if anything.
The rules of the game are simple;
Now on a more serious note, for those who have removed their Brainslug, here is the introduction to a text which covers much ground on the psychology of Crowdism;
IN its ordinary sense the word “crowd” means a gathering of individuals of whatever nationality, profession, or sex, and whatever be the chances that have brought them together. From the psychological point of view the expression “crowd” assumes quite a different signification. Under certain given circumstances, and only under those circumstances, an agglomeration of men presents new characteristics very different from those of the individuals composing it. The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly defined characteristics. The gathering has thus become what, in the absence of a better expression, I will call an organised crowd, or, if the term is considered preferable, a psychological crowd. It forms a single being, and is subjected to the law of the mental unity of crowds.
We have been seeing in the news recently about the Pakistan floods and how evil nature is harming the poor, innocent Pakistani people, here’s a few reasons why we shouldn’t concern ourselves with other societies problems:
Twelve million are affected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, while a further two million are affected in Sindh. In Indian-administered Kashmir, at least 113 people died in mudslides. Meanwhile, it has emerged that a charity connected to a group with alleged al-Qaeda links has been providing flood relief.
Flooding has submerged whole villages in the past week, killing at least 1,600 people, according to the UN. And the worst floods to hit the region in 80 years could get worse, as it is only midway through monsoon season.
According to the federal flood commission, 1.4m acres (557,000 hectares) of crop land has been flooded across the country and more than 10,000 cows have perished. A UN official, Manuel Bessler, told the BBC that with crops swept away by floodwaters, some Pakistanis could be forced to rely on food aid to get through the winter.
Nature has many ways of thinning out the herd, especially in places like Pakistan where reckless overpopulation has created hordes of simplistic people with a mean average IQ of 81, that then, unable to create a higher civilization from what they have inherited, consume and savage the wildlife and landscape:
The current floods could also be blamed to some degree on deforestation and more people living in flood-prone areas as the population keeps growing.
Pakistan has lost vast areas of forest over the past few decades, while overgrazing often strips degraded land of whatever plant cover is left. The government has set a target to boost forest cover from 5.2 percent to 6 percent by 2014.
What may be the case here is that a more severe natural event has occurred where a more severe human event has occurred, that means having lots of offspring without weeding out the less desirable has negative effects on the surrounding ecosystems; which would be required to maintain a steady population that evolves in quality rather than growing in quantity.
The usual solutions are not of this quality, unfortunately, and are destined to fail by neglecting that simple fact, the writer then goes on to explain the usual, socially acceptable explanations of climate change:
Scientists say nations will need to start adapting to climate change impacts such as more intensive droughts and floods but poorer nations with limited cash face the toughest challenge.
Pakistan, like any flood-prone country, needed early warning systems, better storage of drinking water, even to move people from vulnerable areas, said Andrew Ash, who leads a climate adaption programme for Australia’s state-funded research body the CSIRO.
“There are definite limits to adaptation. We often talk about adaptation as if we can adapt our way out of trouble,” he told Reuters. “But these sorts of events highlight that we can’t adapt our way out of all the impacts of climate change.”
Pakistani food expert Abid Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, said the country would need to work on seed varieties to adapt to climate change.
If they were that concerned about surviving they would build away from the flood plains and remove the least productive individuals thereby solving overpopulation and impoverishment; they also need to allow the majority of their land to be forested naturally and allow their most intelligent higher rights to then build more streamlined infrastructure so that when heavy rains come, it doesn’t get dragged under a flood of aid and stupidity from self hating westerners throwing money at the problem.
Instead they could have their intelligent generate wealth for themselves, or if they’re too stupid, they can perish naturally allowing a more competent society to conquest it, but that’s not going to happen whilst modern society still slouches its clumsy altruistic-domesticating tentacles all over the planet, when clearly they do not want it.
But Pakistan, being a corrupt society itself, does however prefer convenient solutions rather than paying attention to the signs that reality shows us;
Don’t be a guilty white prole, don’t give aid to a failed state, be instead concerned for your own survival because any disaster that occurs back home will receive no aid back from them, and you will have injected all of your wealth into making the problem monstrously larger and only prolong the misery.
Street gang culture in Britain and perhaps most of Europe highlights something interesting. The gangs have no underlying culture to unite them, so what do they use to identify themselves? Postcodes.
Yep, how fucking pathetic that in the UK morons, mostly low IQ immigrants from third world countries, are spray painted offensive digits on different homies turf, forcing them to strike vengeance by stabbing and shooting each other, all thanks to the post office;
They chased him through the children’s play area, shooting frantically at the fleeing figure. For almost a mile Jonathan Matondo ran through these Sheffield streets with four armed “hunters” on his heels. Just beyond the playground, the 16-year-old found himself cornered. Matondo was shot at the place where graffiti now say: “Peace. Love. Unity.”
In the district of Burngreave, such well-meaning sentiments are buried beneath one of inner-city Britain’s bloodiest gangland feuds. Matondo’s murder 18 months ago intensified the spiral of retribution between gangs named after two of the city’s postcodes. Five minutes from where he was shot, Spital Hill still marks the front line between the S3 crew of Pitsmoor and the S4s from Burngreave. Gun culture sweeps through Sheffield estates as postcode gangs do battle
Police maintain that Sheffield is one of the UK’s safest major cities, yet within this small knot of estates perched on a hill north of its gentrified centre a gang culture rules. Ten days ago a drive-by shooting left 1 dead and 3 injured. This month Sheffield crown court heard how an S3 gang member ordered a killing from his prison cell. The feud between the S3 and S4 gangs has led to 3 murders in 18 months. A police dossier chronicles at least 40 occasions on which the two gangs have opened fire on each other.
Gun culture sweeps through Sheffield estates as postcode gangs do battle
This is unacceptable that poor people are shooting each other thanks to the post office in an identity crisis, now the post office has blood on its hands, maybe it should be closed down and those responsible should be hanged for the creation of these gangs, so no more innocent lives can be lost to this postcode-ism!1!!
Steven Lewis, 15, was set upon by a group of youths, knifed repeatedly in the chest and left to die in his 16-year-old sister’s arms. Friends of the teenager on Sunday linked the killing to a gang from a neighbouring area in east London.
‘There is rivalry. It is neighbourhoods, postcodes – E13 versus E16,’ claimed 15-year-old Leroy Baptiste, who laid flowers for Steven. Steven was murdered on Saturday night after a church hall party held by a charity which campaigns against violence in black communities.
The party finished at 10.30pm and 15 minutes later police on a routine patrol came across Steven’s body in Plaistow. ‘He was stabbed through the heart. His sister was holding him. His little brother saw everything and he’s just 13,’ a member of Steven’s extended family said.
This has been happening for quite awhile now, most of the news is old, but I can’t help but notice going around my town really stupid graffiti depicting which areas they receive their post, and being mostly african immigrants doing this with a few chavy undermen following in their shadow, as if that was the meaning for their entire existence – partially fuelled by the media and their brainless promotion of rap, hip hop, dub-step and other wankensteins of creation.
I can just imagine these kind of backward retards getting into politics and starting World War 3 because Iran has a different postcode, let’s wait and see.
When it comes to ecology, the closest your average joe gets to being concerned for it is ‘the environment’ – this is a code word for thinking climate change is our only problem, and even that is just a symbolic glance over the real issues of a self destructive society unwilling to realise the consequences of cancerous population growth and its unrealistic demands on the biosphere:
Engineers say a forest of 100,000 “artificial trees” could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world’s carbon emissions.
The trees are among three geo-engineering ideas highlighted as practical in a new report. The authors from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers say that without geo-engineering it will be impossible to avoid dangerous climate change. The report includes a 100-year roadmap to “decarbonise” the global economy.
No silver bullet
Launching the report, lead author Dr Tim Fox said geo-engineering should not be viewed as a “silver bullet” that could combat climate change in isolation.
He told BBC News it should be used in conjunction with efforts to reduce carbon emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate change. Many climate scientists calculate that the world has only a few decades to reduce emissions before there is so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that a dangerous rise in global temperature is inevitable.
The authors of this report say that geo-engineering of the type they propose should be used on a short-term basis to buy the world time, but in the long term it is vital to reduce emissions. – BBC NEWS
Concerning the overall impact of humanity on the biosphere, ecocide is the real threat that will finish modern society off - the ‘climate change’ is a surrogate, symbolic veneer over the real threat in itself.
The artificial trees will not work at all because stupidity still exists, and with stupidity many attempts to solve an issue will be optimistically nodded at whilst nothing significant changes – the stupid will see this as an excuse to continue being stupid because anything else is inconvenient, the only real solution is to cull the stupid like many animals in the wild, culling their insignificant and weak offspring to aid the collective survival of the species.
Being cultureless and consumerist, the majorities only concern is getting to their ‘job’ which is little more than neurotic paper shuffling and button pressing, many more get paid on welfare (especially in Europe) to do nothing. But to the worker drones, they get to their fake work through the veins of one global monstrosity carving up the surface of the Earth into queer little squares with endless fences with metal trickling down the middle in smoggy motorways.
Suggesting artificial trees, water sprays into the atmosphere, solar panels and other technological surrogates just to null the negative consequences of stupid people, is nice sounding and gets many nods but a closer inspection shows this to be totally ineffective. Aside from a golden few, the majority of ‘scientists’ dare not mention the unrealistic population demands on the land, oceans and biodiversity.
Let’s think, if we allowed fake trees to be created what would really be the cost?
The artificial tree is an insult to injury, firstly it tells us that modern society and its inhabitants are unwilling to change their self destructive ways but also that they are unwilling to allow nature to take control. They want one thing that will only cause more problems by ignoring the real ones, scientists think technology will solve ‘our’ problems, and by ‘our’ problems we mean those caused by the feckless undercastes of society continuing to exist.
The global population must be reduced of these car driving, pointless people, not be paved over with concrete and fake trees insulating the dumb from their own stupid actions, their exponential stupidity has no limits.
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“National Lowered Standards Day” Celebrates Decline into Apathy and Mediocrity
Psychologists propose “National Lowered Standards Day” to ease American transition into irrelevance, through the apathy and thus mediocrity of its citizens.
August 4, 2010 — Psychologists at the Miskatonic University are proposing a “National Lowered Standards Day” to ease the transition Americans will experience as they go from being a nation of competent, hard-working people united around success, to a backwater of the third-world levels of dysfunction owing to the apathy, complacency, stupidity and laziness of its citizens.
This proposed holiday, which would occur every year on August 4, would “soften the psychological impact” of having once been the world’s leading nation, and now being “another banana republic where the cops are corrupt, the politicians are con men, the media entertainment, and the average person a total lazy idiot who thinks he’s a victim of circumstance, which justifies his further apathy,” according to lead psychologist Dr. Jungman Werther.
“What separates first-world nations from third-world nations is not geography or politics,” said Dr. Werther. “It’s degree of organization. In the first world, you have rule of law, cleanliness, social order and values in common. In the third world you have none of that, so those societies are totally disorganized through a process we call exponential entropy. When a first world nation, through the apathy and dysfunction of its citizens, becomes disorganized, it becomes a third-world type nation instead, even if it’s far from what we usually think of as the Third World.”
Werther’s group is distributing leaflets and posters to convince Americans that it’s OK to be mediocre, disaffected and oblivious. Doing so, he says, reduces the shock of a whole nation finding that it’s suddenly irrelevant. “We’re going to ease people into this transition,” said Dr. Werther. “It’s like any other transition in life — old age, death, disease or retirement. Our past phase was a vital, full life, and now it’s time to sit on the sofa in the retirement home, play bingo, eat bland food and watch lots and lots of exciting television.”
On the official website for National Lowered Standards Day, the text proclaims: “For years, we have struggled to maintain higher standards, but it just hasn’t worked. It’s inconvenient. To recognize this, we propose a Federal holiday to celebrate a lowest common denominator state of mind.” It is hoped Americans will recognize the wisdom of these words but as Dr. Werther admits, “it’s difficult” to make apathetic and mediocre people even take notice.
Ever wanted to just take short cuts or cheat to get the darn thing over with, but still get the award or certificate everyone else got?
Me either.
But some personality types among us that should have been naturally selected out by now have simply had enough with meeting life a quarter or a fifth of the way and then as a result usually failing.
So they have ideas for how to make everything work out better for themselves by redefining losing out from “they were not good enough” to “they were too exceptional and made us look unequal”.
Some think the national system is a no-brainer, but others say the convenience of having everyone on the same page isn’t worth what might be lost.
But, for this big idea, this new world order to work out, we will all have to play along.
National Standards: Lowering the Bar The Boston Herald editorial board is outraged at Massachusetts’s predicted capitulation to the national standards, pointing out that the “three sets of reviewers” claiming the standards were on par with the state’s current ones were “hardly independent.” In fact, the review by Sandra Stotsky, formerly on the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and another participant in the Times Room for Debate discussion, found that the national standards were below those in Massachusetts. “Do we really want literature to be only 50 percent of assigned high school reading?” ask Herald editors. “Do we really want to wait until fourth grade to have students sound out multi-syllable words? No, we don’t.
What’s a non sequitur?
Latin for “It does not follow.” An inference or conclusion that does not follow from established premises or evidence.
Can you spot the non sequitur in the American liberal ruling regime’s rationalizing?
Last summer, a federal judge ruled that FDNY discriminated against blacks and Hispanics with an exam used in 1999 and 2002. Two weeks ago, the same judge ruled that New York City intentionally discriminated against minorities by continuing to use the exam.
Earlier this month, Barack Obama’s DOJ filed suit against New Jersey and its Civil Service Commission for using an exam that “discriminates” against blacks and Hispanics, because these groups scored “statistically significantly lower” than whites.
“This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices with unlawful discriminatory impact on account of race or national origin will not be tolerated,” Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez told The Star-Ledger. “The Justice Department will take all necessary action to ensure that such discriminatory practices are eliminated and that the victims of such practices are made whole.”
Let’s spell this out for those of our readers who have difficulty with reading comprehension because they are victims of institutionalized discrimination. If the impersonal requirements everyone is held to cause some to fail testing requirements, but others to pass, it must mean we’re singling out individuals for unfair treatment.
The implied solution to avoid legal penalty is to lower the bar to maintain our Constitutional guarantee to diversity. By this rationale, the ruling liberal regime would like everyone to know that:
We on the humanitarian far left agree and that’s why we have a new idea for August 4th, a National Lowered Standards Day. With a few rough guidelines, America will show the world we are no longer biased against any identifiable group of people.
Since we aren’t protectionist, everything American is for export, even lower standards day. Maybe we can take the proposal to the United Nations for an International Nobody Left Behind day. We’ll end up with a Third World planet Earth that everyone hates, but hey at least our intentions seemed benevolent. For a while.