Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Galen]

(09-04-2016, 10:33 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(09-04-2016, 09:37 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(09-04-2016, 07:47 PM)Galen Wrote: I have encountered plenty of militant vegans myself in the People's Republic of Portland and they behave in much the same way out of the same sense of outraged moral superiority.  There just seem to be more of them in Eugene.  Ironically, one group that often goes vegetarian and does not generally behave this way are the Seventh-Day Adventists.

Given the rather limited choices, in reality they are voting for the lesser of evils.  Clearly there is some disagreement on what lesser evil might actually be.  In the end the herd tends to either vote for one of the major parties and refuse in general to consider any other possibility.  When I ask people about that they invariably tell me that they don't want to vote for someone who can't possibly win.  Sounds like herd behavior to me.

As I said before, it may have been good for you but it tended to suck for anybody else.  The usual self-absorbed behavior I have come to expect from Boomers in general.

It was certainly not self absorbed to give people more civil rights like for women such as myself. Heck even men as they can now go into jobs that were considered "women's work" back in the day. They gave us more freedom culturally. People who want to go back to older days when a mans place was ...... or a woman's place was ..... are insane and will hopefully die off. I will not have my rights taken away from me. People should be allowed to do whatever they wish. It is not self absorbed to give equal rights to people. You are just seeing it through the eyes of a child who went through it at the worst possible time. But the result meant future generations could enjoy that freedom. I am seeing it through the eyes of a child who experienced it after the dust had settled and i could enjoy more freedom than what earlier generations had experienced and I deeply appreciate it.

I certainly have much more sympathy with women fighting the old traditional cultural limits than I have for meat eaters.  Who is the self observed one here?  Do you want sympathy and a kleenex to dry your tears?

Nice pictures though.  I've been aware of how the technology shift from horses to tractors freed up a lot of manpower.  Lots of folks moved from the farms to the cities at the peak of the Industrial Revolution.  FDR's New Deal actually started with more emphasis on rural area problems.  Improved technology resulted in improved efficiency and production.  Neat, right?  Folks had to go with the new stuff to compete.  Except the laws of supply and demand turned increased production into decreased prices and less profits.  A lot of the move to the cities was had to rather than want to.  Good to catch a glimpse of the transition period equipment.

Its more complicated than that cultures are shaped more than is generally understood by economics and technology.  So are governments and legal systems because they depend on the logic of violence.  Boomers got away with what they did because the circumstances were just right for it.  Even then they still made a huge mess that will only get worse as conditions change because they borrowed from the future to indulge themselves.