03-15-2017, 10:56 AM
(03-14-2017, 09:18 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:1. Are we destined to become the modern-day Romans?(03-14-2017, 07:23 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:Quote:Sorry dude, Odin is worse than tragically misguided. Unfortunately he hasn't demonstrated himself to be stupid yet either. Impervious to facts that don't conform to his world view? Certainly but that just means he's more or less normal. I don't often agree with Mr. Bob but he's right in that people don't change their values unless they are harshly shown that they are not working.
I don't blame him too much. He's still young, it's a fairly widely peddled and up until recently quite successful belief system, and like a lot of people from the sticks he's too insecure of his social status to buck it right now. He's not stupid, he reads, and it's much easier to belief in some of the more egregiously stupid progressive shibboleths when you're not getting your nose rubbed in their contradictions on a daily basis.
There's hope for him yet.
Quote:Like it or not the petrodollar will eventually end and the largess of the federal government will implode in on itself.
Yeah, I don't think a lot of progressives have grappled with what the end of imperium, "white privilege", and a shift to sustainability will actually mean in material terms, particularly for them.
1, I welcome the end of empire. The imperial project is a black hole that sucks everything worthwhile to oblivion.
2. "White privilege" is a fiction held by snowflakes that all white people are "privileged" . This concept is silly and prone to open a can of worms.
3. Sustainability will be painful, but less so than stopping behaviors which are unsustainable. Things that are unsustainable, at some point stop.
2. If the feds secede more power to the states, could the former Confederacy basically have carte blanche to restore at least some aspects of Jim Crow, or will the feds retain enough clout for this not to happen?
3. Stopping behavoirs which are unsustainable? You mean like "free love" become unsustainable with the advent of the AIDS scare? Would the sexual revolution have ended even if there were no AIDS or equivalent?