Time to fire up the quote engine.
jags wrote:nwj i hate to say it, but.... i think this might have happened to you
Thank you for your concern.
Nwj a republican. That is
rich. I wouldn't worry about that.
Nwj conservative. This is also
rich. From my perspective you (and your homies) are conservative. You accept information from quasi-governmental media outlets without critical thought. You believe that government is the absolute authority, knows what is best for individuals and society as a whole. You believe in a governmental monopoly of force, as well as other governmentally controlled monopolies. You appear to me as the conservative. I believe in greater personal freedom for individuals, businesses, and society as a whole. I am the liberal, you are the conservative.
jags wrote:-you believe that there is a fundamental difference between the different "races"
Yes, I believe in races (about as much as I believe in genres). I wouldn't say fundamental differences. But I do believe in differences, though. I didn't initially, but throughout my life it has become apparent to me and rather than unquestioningly accepting for fact something I've been told repeatedly throughout my life, I analyzed all of the available information and came to my conclusion. Personally, I think it is silly to acknowledge the morphological adaptations that humans exhibit, yet deny without base any other potential adaptions, adaptations to intelligence, emotion, sense of individuality, sense of community. Why would you deny those things? Why is it important that you deny those things?
Take a moment to wipe the drool off your chin, and now hear this: that doesn't mean that one group, or race, of people is more valuable than any other. That also doesn't mean that the human mind isn't extraordinarily plastic, it is. I know you think these ideas are born of racism and hatred, as you've been trained to believe that. But they are not. They are conclusions based upon a lifetime's honest personal observation.
jags wrote:-you care about rates of marriage
Fuck yes I do, dude. HUGELY. I know it will be so disappointing for you to hear this, and you can reject it out of hand, at your own peril, but the family is the basis of all civilization. The family is where we learn, at the deepest level, love, tolerance, sharing, caring, mutual respect, personal responsibility, and all of the other traits that build strong families, strong communities, strong nations, and a strong and healthy planet.
When the family structure is broken down, the fundamental ideals of civilization cannot be passed down through the generations, and you begin to develop generations like those we now see - totally depraved narcissistic pleasure seekers, open to any governmental/corporate thought programming and control, a people that laud Michael Brown as a national hero rather than a national disgrace, not because he was shot down, but because he lead a life, had parents that allowed, lived in a community that accepted, and consumed a popular culture that encouraged him to be shot down.
jags wrote:-you blame the problems on the black community on them buying expensive sneakers......
Well thanks to Michael Brown's sacrifice, they don't have to buy them.
But you got me dude, black suffering around the globe is based on Jordans. If we could just build a time machine and get Kobe on the Lakes back in the day, none of this would have happened! Cue fantasy music.
Do I believe that black people's behavior and social structure in America are contributing towards much of the very real suffering that those communities are going through? Fucks of yes, how could you not? OG suggested in the context of MB that young black men are fighting for survival in America, when we see in these latest two public incidences, these young men were fighting for drug paraphernalia to get high. I don't see those two things as the same.
I believe that if black families stayed together, taught their children, through example, the fundamentals of family life, and societal strength, if black parents didn't commit limited resources to drugs, cigarets, material possessions, and instead invested those resources into providing a stable, safe environment for their kids, perhaps schooling that is not provided by the government, you would have generations of very strong black people, with very intelligent and compassionate children, all of whom would be economically viable and would be impervious to the culture of death.
) economies are supplanting the official. People are beginning to organize themselves into rural communities centered on a technologically modified agrarian ideology, I'm way way way into this. CNN is announcing, perhaps, major cuts. No one is dumb enough to believe that stuff anymore, as distributed and direct reporting is taking its place. McD's shares are down significantly, no one is eating that poison. I'm not a total doom and gloomer. Technology is transforming the world into a freer, realer, more personal, more informed (except for jags), more connected landscape, a technological anarchy. But that strengthening force MUST be counteracted by those seeking control. So we will get all types of centralized control mechanisms placed over us through trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership rather than through direct legislative action.
