02-09-2022, 11:14 PM
(02-09-2022, 01:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(02-09-2022, 07:00 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-09-2022, 04:57 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: You are related to the Democratic Party or Acirema, as goes the Democrats so goes you. Do you have any other choice but to go along with Them at this point? I agree with you (Pbower), I don't see America going back to slavery or Jim Crow or sticking with Biden/Harris and all the SHIT that they currently represent for much longer either.
Each crisis was centered on a set of problems. You had a privileged 'nobel' minority and colonial imperialism in the Revolution. You had slavery and industrial power in the Civil War. You had the economy and expansionist autocratic cultures in FDR's time. This time Covid, prejudice, democracy and disrespect for the environment seem to be the crisis issues.
America has always solved the problems, though there has often been a faction that is stuck on the way things have been. The glory associated with America's crises is associated with how they solved the problems. The do not solve problems people are currently advocating death by Covid, prejudice, elite criminality, destroying nature, and letting the infrastructure fail. These ideas do not fit well with America or my idea of a crisis.
They also lead to a certain disrespect for those who want the problems not to be solved.
Thus, I agree we will not unsolve the old problems, but I disagree and expect we will solve the new. We have to. Clinging to old non solutions just isn't the American way.
Acirema? Maybe.
You got one crisis related problem right. Any clue which one it is? Have you ever watched The View? If you do, you are watching a group of prejudice women (its pretty obvious) associated with the Democratic party or Acirema. You would fit right in with Them if you were a female or looked like a female today, Why are you clinging to old narratives and non solutions when you know it isn't the American Way.
I've seen bits and pieces of it, but just enough to catch a flavor. It's not the worst waste of time on daytime TV, but it is TV. A general rule in life is that if you watch a lot of TV, then you aren't really living.
Everybody has prejudices and some of them are valid. If they are that certain ethnic or religious groups are predictably stupid, incompetent, or amoral, then that prejudice is one that deserves divestment. In any event, I doubt that you have much respect for women. I pity your wife and any daughter that you may have.
I can assure you now that there are multiple American Ways, as most people fit into certain boxes at once: ethnicity or mixture of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, region, vocation, level of intelligence or formal education... even being a "horse person" or a "snake person" makes one different. Let's not forget that one's generation defines much, as someone born in 1965 and someone born in 1985 are likely to have big differences just for differences in experiences.
If you don't think gender is important, then my family has had two golden cocker spaniels -- one a neutered male and the other a neutered female. Even though they lived with the same human family they could have hardly been more different. This said, dogs are obviously not conscious of any feminist or male-chauvinist attitudes. They are simply dogs. The male was far more aggressive than the female. (One exception: mess with a a female dog's puppies, and you stand to be hurt badly). OK, both dogs got along well with cats, but that may reflect the human family.
Intelligence? If one is stupid, then I can assure you that one has no desire to listen to this:
It has its delights for someone who has certain acquired tastes for long stretches of finely-crafted music, especially rich counterpoint. Plenty of smart people still can think of better things to do with their lives than listen to Bruckner symphonies. Let's put it this way: if the best that one can hope for in life is to work in a dollar store and have a smoke during a break, then this not for that person.
This is not the German part of my heritage speaking here. I prefer Puccini to Wagner, thank you, and I have no Italian ancestry.
...If I am to make any prediction on how this Crisis Era will unfold, then it will be that the most rational, humane, and decent will prevail. America has a rich basis of tradition upon which to fall back when absurdity arises from recent fads and crazes. America has multiple traditions, none more valid than the others -- and the leaders within those traditions well know that. Those traditions that most foster creativity, learning, enterprise, and integrity typically show why they have staying power.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.