I am surprised that I still have all my fingers. As a kid I packed cutoff match heads into used CO2 cylinders to make improvised rockets that sometimes exploded when set off. I like to tell my grandkids about how as ten year olds with paper routes my friends and I once rode our bikes to a nearby small airport. We gave a pilot we didn’t k…
I am surprised that I still have all my fingers. As a kid I packed cutoff match heads into used CO2 cylinders to make improvised rockets that sometimes exploded when set off. I like to tell my grandkids about how as ten year olds with paper routes my friends and I once rode our bikes to a nearby small airport. We gave a pilot we didn’t know a couple of bucks for gas and he flew us over our homes in a Piper Cub. When I got home and told my mom her response was “that’s nice, get ready for dinner” and that was it. We lived in a Chicago suburb and would ride the train to the Loop and wander through the big department stores and once ended up on State street south of Van Buren outside a burlesque show hoping to get a peek inside. A friendly doorman waved us in for a free show. That we never mentioned to our folks. I fear for the current coddled generation.
All of us (especially guys) who had similar childhoods, can plainly see how these last 2 generations have been poisoned and then self normalized their contamination - as normal and righteous. These new masters of the world (I mean that literally - because they're the ones who will sit in seats of power/influence now and going forward) have been so demoralized (stripped of any moral compass) that they cling to perversions, fear, deviance and self hatred as if they were hallowed axioms, chiseled on stone tablets.
So many like to bloviate that this will swing back, there are more of us than them, etc., but attrition is a bitch and those of use who did things as kids - that would have todays drag queen story hour customers quaking with fear (hell that happens if you take away their screens for an hour - literally) - are steadily dying off.
Put another way - Our baseline of "normal" is quickly being replaced with the "new normal" and won't be getting switched back anytime soon or very easily.
Will there be a remnant, who have taught and been taught the fundamentals that allowed this country to function and gain a high level of prosperity, yes there will be. However, they will only be able to keep the flame lit, they will not be able to turn the tide.
They will be the 100 sanitation workers collecting trash, in cities where millions produce it hourly.
The tide will be turned when the crash comes (whatever that ends up being), those who caused it are drug off into the woods and buried and societies have to start from a relative position of "scratch".
The real trigger that triggered support for vigilantism last week is the case of the murdered CEO. How are a lot of the coddled youth you mention not horrified by a cold-blooded killing?
I've been shown a lot of disrespect and faced a lot of vitriol recently because I believe vigilantism has no place in democratic society.
Much more disrespect and disagreement than I would have faced over twenty years ago.
What's changed in regard to moral conscience since then?
When I say coddled, I don't mean that they don't have the ability to inflict damage, harm and chaos. I mean mentally they are incapable of dealing with perceived insult, harm or injury without acting out or going to extremes. Evidenced by every single nut job video out there where people are melting down over TDS and make serious threats against those they see as assaulting and harming them, through a voting choice. The coddling was no one ever telling them "no", "sit down and be quiet", "you are wrong", and the like. They have always been right, never allowed to hurt, want, be sad or scared and if they were it was all the bad old worlds fault.
This is just my opinion on your question, but I think this "I can do what I want because I "feel" a certain way and it's justified" is at the heart of all of this woke, omnipotent stupidity we are seeing - not only in the youth, but their parents as well. Also there are no swift and overwhelming consequences for their lower level tantrums. If anything they are catered to, as with the campus protester BS. What that does is reinforce their notion that they have power and sway and are right - so anything justifies their goal, to include murder. Lastly, this is just conjecture, but like toddlers who can take themselves from a few tears, to an enraged, unhinged, emotional hurricane in seconds, these people have been groomed societally to see rage and acting out as "the justified norm". I refer you to the idiots posting videos.
So, while there are tons of theories about this guy's motives, I'd say that in general the lack of inhibitions of crossing that line - that many have stood at, but don't - is a factor here.
We, collectively, have bred a generation or two now, to think everyone else is wrong and they're right. Add a level of mental illness into the mix and that only gets magnified. They also have great, "popular". examples, that affirm that. The most recent is hunter, with a 10 year blanket pardon for any and all crimes committed during that time. Hell fauci is another, who profited from the deaths of millions.
No fear of consequence = anything goes. That's goes for world leaders, politicians, governments, idiot woketards and toddlers.
I am surprised that I still have all my fingers. As a kid I packed cutoff match heads into used CO2 cylinders to make improvised rockets that sometimes exploded when set off. I like to tell my grandkids about how as ten year olds with paper routes my friends and I once rode our bikes to a nearby small airport. We gave a pilot we didn’t know a couple of bucks for gas and he flew us over our homes in a Piper Cub. When I got home and told my mom her response was “that’s nice, get ready for dinner” and that was it. We lived in a Chicago suburb and would ride the train to the Loop and wander through the big department stores and once ended up on State street south of Van Buren outside a burlesque show hoping to get a peek inside. A friendly doorman waved us in for a free show. That we never mentioned to our folks. I fear for the current coddled generation.
All of us (especially guys) who had similar childhoods, can plainly see how these last 2 generations have been poisoned and then self normalized their contamination - as normal and righteous. These new masters of the world (I mean that literally - because they're the ones who will sit in seats of power/influence now and going forward) have been so demoralized (stripped of any moral compass) that they cling to perversions, fear, deviance and self hatred as if they were hallowed axioms, chiseled on stone tablets.
So many like to bloviate that this will swing back, there are more of us than them, etc., but attrition is a bitch and those of use who did things as kids - that would have todays drag queen story hour customers quaking with fear (hell that happens if you take away their screens for an hour - literally) - are steadily dying off.
Put another way - Our baseline of "normal" is quickly being replaced with the "new normal" and won't be getting switched back anytime soon or very easily.
Will there be a remnant, who have taught and been taught the fundamentals that allowed this country to function and gain a high level of prosperity, yes there will be. However, they will only be able to keep the flame lit, they will not be able to turn the tide.
They will be the 100 sanitation workers collecting trash, in cities where millions produce it hourly.
The tide will be turned when the crash comes (whatever that ends up being), those who caused it are drug off into the woods and buried and societies have to start from a relative position of "scratch".
The real trigger that triggered support for vigilantism last week is the case of the murdered CEO. How are a lot of the coddled youth you mention not horrified by a cold-blooded killing?
I've been shown a lot of disrespect and faced a lot of vitriol recently because I believe vigilantism has no place in democratic society.
Much more disrespect and disagreement than I would have faced over twenty years ago.
What's changed in regard to moral conscience since then?
When I say coddled, I don't mean that they don't have the ability to inflict damage, harm and chaos. I mean mentally they are incapable of dealing with perceived insult, harm or injury without acting out or going to extremes. Evidenced by every single nut job video out there where people are melting down over TDS and make serious threats against those they see as assaulting and harming them, through a voting choice. The coddling was no one ever telling them "no", "sit down and be quiet", "you are wrong", and the like. They have always been right, never allowed to hurt, want, be sad or scared and if they were it was all the bad old worlds fault.
This is just my opinion on your question, but I think this "I can do what I want because I "feel" a certain way and it's justified" is at the heart of all of this woke, omnipotent stupidity we are seeing - not only in the youth, but their parents as well. Also there are no swift and overwhelming consequences for their lower level tantrums. If anything they are catered to, as with the campus protester BS. What that does is reinforce their notion that they have power and sway and are right - so anything justifies their goal, to include murder. Lastly, this is just conjecture, but like toddlers who can take themselves from a few tears, to an enraged, unhinged, emotional hurricane in seconds, these people have been groomed societally to see rage and acting out as "the justified norm". I refer you to the idiots posting videos.
So, while there are tons of theories about this guy's motives, I'd say that in general the lack of inhibitions of crossing that line - that many have stood at, but don't - is a factor here.
We, collectively, have bred a generation or two now, to think everyone else is wrong and they're right. Add a level of mental illness into the mix and that only gets magnified. They also have great, "popular". examples, that affirm that. The most recent is hunter, with a 10 year blanket pardon for any and all crimes committed during that time. Hell fauci is another, who profited from the deaths of millions.
No fear of consequence = anything goes. That's goes for world leaders, politicians, governments, idiot woketards and toddlers.