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Had my brains scrambled in the fall of 83. Confusing as fuck to wake up in a hospital with extreme tunnel vision and not knowing who is president, how old you are, where you are or what fucking year it is !!!
Started watching football that year during my recovery and have watched it every year since. I guess that speaks volumes !!!
Sorry to hear that.
'83/'84 were pretty awesome for me....beer, coke and skiing were my only concerns.
When did the Catholics, Mormons, & Fundamentalist take over the Federal Government?
Probably we must look at the last 100 years to see how Religious Conservatives where picked to be spies or government employees.
I'll wait for answers... and specific info... but I don't expect to hear from even one person.
If you like videos like this you'll certainly love the "North Korean" 2012 film "Propaganda". Don't miss it!
Exceptional development!
The culture of instant gratification.
Materialistic debt slaves.
Our celebrity/consumption culture lacks a moral/spiritual core - this result in a herd of mindless, empty morons fighting over artificially marked down merchandise. Pathetic.
Have things really changed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sOlIvx7Pvs
Doesn't anyone remember Cabbage patch dolls?
And I thank you for this because it reminds me of something an old wise man once told me...
"Get over it kid, it's always been this bad it's just now the internet is giving you a front row seat to it."
That was the first time I recall hearing about people fighting for shit on the 'news'.
Damn those things were creepy as hell.
How about tickle me elmos?
That was the first mania at the store I recall; we can call it the early stage of consumptive insanity.
That was great fun when they had call in contests to give them away. Locked up switches & isolated towns all over.
Simply another version of Tulip Mania.
The Americans are exceptional, without them leaving in a fight to buy Chinese products the economy does not sink!
Buy! Buy! Buy! USA! USA! USA!
I want to see the payment ...
hehe.
I told myself I wouldn't watch any Black Friday videos but I couldn't hold out here once I was offered a comparison video....
OH GOD!!! The Horror... The Horror... why did I look? Oh Lord let me forget what i've seen!
I watch these videos to remind myself that these people aren't worth saving and to show them no compassion when the SHTF.
Whomever junked you for that comment is mentally retarded. Spot On comment, if/when this shitshow breaks down, there can be NO Mercy for the sheep, it is time to thin the herd and let the waek Buffalo die off, or be taken out for the betterment of humanity. If not there will be no 'humanity' within a century or two at the most.
Problem is it seems that the demographic being destroyed is not the parasites but rather the productive middle class.
The change we all claim to seek will not happen in a week, month, year or a decade, it is going to take generation[s] to fully take hold.
It has been said that the Native Americans used to base all their decisions upon how that decision would affect the next 7 generations, and that is why they did so well for so long. Until the pale faces showed up, but that is another story.
Gimme one place where we ask the same question of ourselves in ANYTHING we do today, start from their and lets go forward on that note?!?!?!
Meat Hammer.. Do you have no family members or friends who do the same? It's hard for me to paint such a broad brush when I know good people who fall prey to it. Americans can't pass up a good sale and will kill each other for one if they're desperate or broke. Is it their fault they were made this way?
Things to consider anyway...
I'm afraid this is the test. Each either passes or fails on their own merit. Dignity? It only gets in the way of a bargain! And you want to save them? For what purpose? When you reward failure...
Welcome to the hunger games
Edit: Junked but no comeback? Come and defend your position you tart!
Is it their fault they were made this way?
That is irrelavant to the discussion. Was it Jeffery Dahmer's fault, or Gasey, or Manson, I can go on here if you would like.
I know I will be junked to hell by all the 'bleeding' hearts here on the Hedge [no idea where they have come from either], but there is a reason Tigers [sometimes] eat their young, why should we ba any different?
We are truly coming to a point where we will have some incredibly difficult discussions/decisions as a species, because holding on to sentimentality about some of these 'people' will not save us as a species.
Junk if you want but give me a better option at this point...........
I'm a Nothingarian, myself, with a tremendous veg garden/greenhouse situated in a sedate neighborhood in a southern state.
I put a sign up on my house: HIPPIES USE BACKDOOR ----> No Exceptions.
(This pisses off my neighbors.)
When the SHTF I plan on changing the sign to: HUNGARY WALKERS USE BACKDOOR ---> No Exceptions.
I'm a committed Vagitarian.
Always have been and always will be.
Even though I'm supposed to live as "love one another," I pretty much feel the same way these days.
I'm supposed to serve these morons in a time of need??? Seriously???
OT, but certainly relative to crowds. I like this guy's stuff & it's been awhile since there was any new info. I pulled up his website last nite & got offline/suspended, so I went to his utube channel. Still nothing new. Went back to his website which NOW seemed to be back in order, yet still nothing new. Found this a few minutes ago re: Ebola.
SCG News or StormCloudsGathering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIDmK5qwarU
Who'da thunk that as the mass media was honed as the perfect tool for the rich to brainwash the populace to the religion of ever-better consumption that defines them as our prophets and Gods--whut a coincidence!--even the lowly among us would be devoured by the kind of status-starved avarice that drives the entire system, top-down?
Shocking, I say!
One would never encounter such behavior at Tiffany or my favorite Bentley dealership.
34 years of underclass (2 generations!!) breeding and uncontrolled immigration
2 generations, ha. Maybe if they reproduced like normal humans. You've got 28 year old grandmothers in most welfare dens of America.
If you don't have a baby by 15 you aren't pulling your weight. Dem babies bring mo money.
When grandma and great grandma are still capable of childbirth, things are fucked up.
1980 the ghetto was contained in a ten square mile area in most cities.
2010 the non ghetto is a ten square mile area contained in most cities.
Busing contributed to the destruction of the city
And that's why busing was implemented.
2014- Most cities are now contained in the ghetto
And so we see a modern day sampling of where we are headed and what the real hunger games will be like if the globalists are successful in their quest to control all
They'll fail. If you watch enough holy wood propaganda you must have seen many movies that include a message about the el-eat begging to be stopped. Their moral character is exponentially more deviant than these Cretans shown here unleashing the baser instincts of man. So in the end, even if it is not the righteous that stops them, they will destroy themselves
For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age. - Titus 2:11-12
Maybe it's time for Him to show his fucking face for a change and make Himself clear on this so we don't have to trust in the words of storytellers of the ancient oral tradition?
Just sayin. Looks like the money worshipping class has this world all wrapped up. Richest 47 Americans--each a prototypical Galt in his own mind, no doubt--own more than the bottom half of the US population and the top 1% worldwide own more than the bottom half of humanity as a whole.
WTF? Why's He got You doing all the work when He should know perfectly well the "non-believers" don't give a shit what superior knowledge our peers claim to speak from in such a world as this . . . that He supposedly made?
God is an Absentee Slumlord or what?
it's trippy, isn't it? look at it this way: if there's an almighty, everything is always exactly the way the almighty wants it to be. the likes of you and i might be mere sockpuppets in the grand scheme of things.
Not so.
God’s divine plan is eternal. As such, it can be hard for temporal mankind to understand:
God created everything in a perfect, sinless state. God gave free will as well as reason to his human creations- he did not create human robots. Mankind disobeyed God, choosing to believe the father of the lie (Satan) rather than their truthful creator (God). From that moment, sin and imperfection was introduced to mankind, and all that had been created. This resulted in death, disease, mental illness, etc, with God no longer protecting his creation from natural disasters. What Satan did was challenge God- Satan wanted to be God- and God saw that Satan would not be the last that would challenge Him. That is why God did not immediately execute Satan and his demons- he and his ilk (human rulers included) would be allowed to operate long enough to prove once and forever that there is only one true God (the creator), that he alone has the right to rule and be worshipped.
God’s eternal plan includes redemption from sin and imperfection- this is why His Son, Jesus Christ, sacrificed His perfect human body on Calvary- to atone for mankind’s fall from grace (undeserved kindness). Since that time, all that is necessary for each individual human to receive God’s grace, and eternal life, is to put faith in Jesus Christ as their personal savior. God’s plan also includes allowing imperfect mankind and spirit creatures to try to disprove God’s right to rule and be worshipped. Mankind has had thousands of years to try every conceivable form of government (The_Beast), and every form of financial system (Whore; Harlot; Babylon_the_Great), and every form of worship to false gods (Man_of_Lawlessness; Son of Perdition). The verdict is (nearly) in, they have all failed.
God’s Son, Jesus Christ, will soon return to execute justice- all who put faith in him will be saved, all those who do not will be cut off. There will then be a thousand years of perfection, with Jesus Christ as perfect, loving ruler, after which, Satan and his demons will be released one last time from their abyss- to see which humans will again follow him, (Satan) rather than God. At that point, there will be final judgment- all the wicked, both spirit and human, will be cut off forever, while all those judged righteous will live for eternity.
That is God’s eternal plan, as revealed in His word, the Bible.
Until I see a sonogram picture of Mary's womb -such picture indicating god-like configurations, I'm not buying the Jesus hogwash.
That's what you think. But the truth is:
9For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." - Philippians 2:9-11
Ah,
The tired old appeal to authority gambit.
"Close cover before striking..."
Groucho Marx.
In most cases, appeal to authority is a logical fallacy.
But this sort of reasoning is fallacious only when the person is not a legitimate authority in a particular context, and there are many historical cases that prove that God has foretold future events accurately:
http://www.reasons.org/articles/articles/fulfilled-prophecy-evidence-for...
many more indications are of a quite fallible mind.
Also, your explication of why your appeal is not a fallacy is fallacious - you haven't even proved the existence of the entity you call upon for ex post facto justification.
Nostradamus and St. Malachy existed. Plenty claim they were proven right.
Neither were an omnipotent, omniscient Be-ing.
Grow the fuck up.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/
Actually, it can be summed up easier than the poster below. Some believe in a omnipotent sky wizard that controls all things and others believe in a omnipresent sky wizard that doesn't control everything and grants your wishes...sometimes.
If I were a believer I'm not sure which I would want; a sky wizard that controls everything and has me burning to death in a shoe factory at age 20 or a sky wizard that might, maybe cure my 13 year old daughters leukaemia if he gets around to it after bingo night.
Psalm 73.
Does this have anything to do with choosing between good and not so good?
Maybe the world is numbered, numbered, weighed and measured on every Black Friday and the balance has finally tipped to the unfashionable side.
Best rub the blood of a lamb on your doorpost.
What's happening to America is we forgotten who we are spiritually. We are lost in materialism ... the "ocean of Samsara".
The fruits of the NWO bitchez. Although if you compared photos of the Campus of UCLA, USC and even Harvard and Cambridge in 1969 to those of today and you would probably get the impression of how far we've progressed. But that's not the right comparison either because if the colleges keep going in the direction they are headed in a few more years I expect everyone there to be wearing uniforms.
In the 1980s, Ravi Batra had some decent NYT bestsellers along the lines of societal cycles. Seems like we're due for a new era of "commanders" and exaltation of military prowess. Since we appear to lack the resources to do the "conquest of space" thing as Batra hoped, we'll just have to fight among ourselves, as per usual.
Uniforms, baby. Lots and lots of uniforms.
Ravi Batra "The Great Depression of 1990". My wife still uses the fact that I read this against me.
And Harry Browne personally told me that Bill Clinton would be the last democrat ever elected to the US presidency, since there was NO WAY US government spending could continue to increase after 1996....
Boomers then, Xers and Millenials now. End of discussion.
The browning of America happened, of course.
Reality TV training people to live like animals...NJ Shore, Kardashains, survivor.... The leftists running the media share a lot of BLAME!
Sure, what cause is nearer and dearer to the Leftists than deregulation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
Sorry, that's the "neoliberalism" of the libertarian sect, perverted and coopted by somebody else or not.
You seem to be implying that deregulation is a bad thing.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
repealing glass steagall was, in essence, de regulatory.
It was not good - predictably.
Orthodoxies exclude the exceptions that consitute the real world.
"Sure, what cause is nearer and dearer to the Leftists than deregulation"?
False dichotomy
"Sorry, that's the "neoliberalism" of the libertarian sect, perverted and coopted by somebody else or not."
More false labelling and who is "somebody else" and who is "not"?
i don't have cable so i do not watch reality shows, but i must admit tho that one time when i had cable (free at this one apt)
i did watch um, what is her name???
i have to think about this that blond that was married to an elder guy and she died from an over dose...
been a while...
i will re to my own tweet
anna nicole...
Probably doesn't help that the aisles and turnstiles have stayed the same dimensions, but the but the brain-dead sheeples' ass-girth has doubled.
Its so sad it can almost be funny. But not quite..
Why all this browbeating and "what has become of us?" nonsense (from the media)?.
The people in the second video are by and large composed of asian immigrants and african americans. Neither will be questioning their own behaviour for a second, and yet Americans feel the need to agonise over and condemn modern Western society when they see this. Scapegoating and media mind games.
Nope, not me.
I don't agonize over anyone but my own.
I could care less what idiots do. Idiots gonna stay idiots so there's no point to even discussing them.
They simply DO NOT MATTER.
Its like organised rioting. A lot of blacks in that last clip .....
even the MSM refers to the sheeple as Consumers and the tribe treats them as livestock so what do you expect when the a sheeple turns into a walking Zombie CONSUMER
leaders of the free world, exceptional, truly exceptional.
tick tock.
It is like the Hunger Games, but in real life instead.
Sponsored by the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The protocols have been thoroughly debunked.
so has the claim that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during the 2nd World War.
But some myths are too sacred to allow to be sullied by facts, eh?
Not like...
It is.
Hollyweird has always given us the preview.
Soylent.
it seems that none of you were born/aware in the late 60s early 70s. the "walmart scenes of fury" occurred across the midwest, ONLY, it happened on xmas eve not the day after Thanksgiving. the stores, including department stores, discounted to clearance in the early evening and stayed open until 12 or 1 am. it was a sight to behold. and yes as a child I was allowed to attend ONCE.
1984: Cliff Huxtable America's dad
2014: Bill Cosby serial rapist
Couldn't be he is one of the few blacks that tell it like it is to awaken their own tribe. Oh, no, uh uh.
Couldn't have been ruined like the rest of the truth tellers/whistleblowers.
That would put a hitch in the divisive race war TPTB have planned.
Come out of your cave Fred.
but it is so bright outside. What do you want to tell me?
Let me strike that flintstone for ya since you need a visual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itWCvkK44lE
Doesn't flow with the Al/Jesse agenda.
Enuf light for ya?
Need some shades?
So Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton are tools for some entity that wants to start a race war? Who/what is this entity and what is their goal? Cliff Huxtable at age 77 would insert himself into the war and slow down its progress. So the PTB had to dredge up old stories and convince people to come forward or the rape stories were all fabricated? Ben Carson is therefore in grave danger?
I apologize if it appears that I am making light of your theories, but I asked you lay it out for me, but instead gave me a video of Cosby speaking out against ghetto culture. If you got some info/pieces of the puzzle, then share it. I suppose a race war would result in many of us embracing a stronger police state. What else happens?
Cosby has denounced fatherless households, lack of education & ghetto mentality.
Who's always right in the middle of the crap stoking the victim mentality race card? How many in Chicago?
Clue, one of them owes taxes.
Cliff Huxtable is a fictional character. Mmmmkay, as in TeeVee.
Yes TPTB dredge up all kind of shit to destroy anyone that doesn't grease their wheel total domination.
Thanks for clearing up that Dr. Huxtable is a fictional character. Now it is all making sense. So there is a bias in the media and in administration of justice and you are unhappy about it. Does this mean that Cosby didn't drug and rape anyone?
Dr Huxtable was a good man. I know him very well. I have the entire series on DVD and can recite every line from every episode. Trust me. Dr Huxtablle would never do such a thing
The JELLO pudding pop ads were great: "JELLO pururudin' pops!! Made with real pururdin'!!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVIoBoFkoiM
What has changed about Black Friday, from then until now, is the focus and intensity of the PsyOp.
"We're all monkeys..."
To call these Black Friday shoppers people is merely a compliment only because they look human and are breathing air...That's about as human as they are because their brains are like robots that have been programmed by the Fascist totalitarian media to get out there and rack up credit card debt with all the other mundane sheep just to line the pockets of the corporate interests that collect the interest payments... It's fucking sad to see the demise of a society happening right before your eyes. If I see another Black Friday commercial or have to listen to another Christmas jingle, I swear i'll fucking rip that TV out of the wall. I'm not saying the holidays aren't a good time to have special time with your family, I'm saying don't be hoodwinked into being a total Corporate owned dipshit. I enjoyed my Thanksgiving in Santa Barbara where I spent it with my family on the beach playing frisbee and just hanging out enjoying each others company. Then we went to my daughters apt on campus in Isle La Vista and cooked rip eye steaks for everyone in the complex that couldn't make it home for Thanksgiving... No fucking turkey or yams, Just some kick ass Ribeyes on the grill and good wine and thankful students... Probably one of my favorite Thanksgivings yet, and no I didn't buy a fucking thing from the Corporate whores...What the fuck is wrong with people? What happened to the real meaning of the holidays? Friends and family and making new friends was much more gratifying to me then eating some traditional stressed out bird and fighting over the last 45" inch plasma tv with some fat assed idiot robot in a fucking store...
2 things happened that started the ruin of the american culture (white america)
1st they rolled out television ( no explanation required)
2nd the roll out of vietnam... with the majority of the younger white males either being sent off to yet another banker war or running from it....the remainder became what I like to call the "cause generation" all the bullshit started with the boom of the "cause" minded assholes you know the feminist cause the green peace cause the peta cause the anti-war cause everyone had a fucking "cause" between 1964 and 1980 all these groups the liberal leftist ass wipes became a well oiled machine of destruction against the fabric of white america. all the jewish orgs are behind these "causes" all the multiculturism multiracism bullshit came full swing in those years by the late '80s there were more fucking "causes" than you could even begin to count and all of these waring with each other.. unless you grew up thru those years and were truly paying attention and not getting caught in a "cause", you would have seen the start of the shredding of the "middle class" you would have seen the heart of what they call "white flight" anyway forward to the present and this is what you have... the destruction of white america. Now do you still want to argue with the facts ...keep believing that the jew master plan is good for you keep your immigrants and niggers. this isn't about shopping it's about the internal destruction of a white founded majority white populated nation. Like it or not that is what america was founded on ...a free independant white nation of european decent. As said before "Americans hit peak happiness in the 1950's" All been down hill ever since ...Thanks Jews and leftist libtard nigger loving self hating "white" americans.
Anti-racist = Anti-white
+1000. In a world gone mad it provides me with some consolation that more and more people are waking up to The Agenda. Whether it's too late or not I don't know.
Hmmm Sub MOA...while I certainly wouldn't consider arguing "with the facts," I am wondering if the language and tone of this post is indicative of the fact that you are victim of the ruining of white American culture by TV, causes, Jewish people, blacks and leftists Or, perhaps your lack of civility is due to personal problems.
SubMOA,
Too bad your life turned out to be less than you hoped for.
The simple "tone" of the post is reflective of my disgust with the "american" people.... as far as my life not turning out the way I expected (posted below) I don't believe any one here has had thier lives "turn out like they hoped/ or envisioned...
Civility LMAO I kiss no ones ass nor bend no knee .... so for your civility stuff it up your fat ass
Victim? a victim whines for a "saviour" an activist points out the truth so the "victim" can choose a course of action.
As I've been told "this is fight club" so quit your crying and suck it up.... civility I'm still laughing
Yeah! God damn!
First we founded this great nation by wipin' out them uppity Indians and shootin' awl their buffalo. Then we brung in those uppity niggahs from Africa and made 'em pick da cotton for us to save their sorry asses but them goddamn uppity niggahs went and bred bastards and hell yeah...we never raped any of them godswearya...
Now we buy our gas from them goddamn uppity Ayrabs and we wuz all nice to dem but theyze gonnan shafted us good and proper and blew up some towerrs (but we did Building 7 no problem) so we'll lick dem Ayrabs damn good.
Wass next, dem fucking slant Chinese? Or dem Russkies?
You left out the development of cheap artificial lighting that allowed people to stay up late into the night.
It's the ever worsening idiocracy....and to think there are idiots out there that think things are going to get better.
31 more years of turning away from God.
Yep, its that simple. /sarc/
WTF.. really? I am a believer and find that comment overly simplistic. I can only guess what atheists would say.
Atheists don't have to say much. God mocks herself.
I heard she flogs her labia with alcohol-soaked chinchilla pelts
Probably something similar to your confession.
But really, narcissistic, xenophobic, pm stacking, crypto-anarchists know what is best for everyone.
Or something.
31 years of American progressive bullshit beliefs being forced down the throat of the youth through their indoctrination system. I guess they finally achieved their long desire goal.
Your g0d is a cunt
And you are a complete idiot...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn explained the mess we are in this way: Man has forgotten God.
Atheists misled Russia into a nightmare (kauchmar), and functional atheists who are only for themselves will lead us to a catastrophe. Perhaps it will be war, and perhaps it will be Orwell's boot forever stamping on a human face - only the face beneath the boot will be sedated into insensibility.
PRODIGIES
The Realm was in chaos,
In Daphne of Rome
A suburb of Antioch
Ominous prodigy
Child with two skulls
Four eyes and one mouth,
Considered a sign
Of disordered governance
Not so long later
At Adrianople
The Emperor Valens
Suffered disaster
The legions defeated
The Emperor killed
And all of his lands
At sixes and sevens
But there would be other
Miscegenations
Meaningful omens
Vile deformations
There will be seen -
Already have been -
Monstrous confinements
That signal disorder
Neonate millions
With numerous heads
But one single mouth
Consuming the world
An eye at the front
An eye at the back
Two on each side
An ear to keep track
This is an infant
New of its kind
One single creature
With only one mind
That will come soon -
Already prepared -
Descent of the species
And no one will care
Except for a few
Who live alongside
In the commons of love
And there they will hide
Pavel
November 1, 2014
I am seeing more and more signs of broke, fed up honkys going criminal.
Looks like crime will take a great leap forward.
The world is getting better at wiping the smile from my face.
Supply and demand is off kilter. If there were enough products priced at 50% off (for people who have 200.00 to their name), this would not be nessary. They either fight to get to the 20 such items in stock or go without. If they get it, they got the deal of the year.
If the store had 5000 TV at 50% off, this would not be necessasry.
But wait. You dislike the savages drooling for a TV/computerIphone on Black Friday? Picture the collapse of the USD, and this happening for a LOAF OF BREAD.
Sue the bastards who set up America on 911. For GOD'S SAKE, SUE THEM, and send a few presidents, congressman, senators as well as several dual citizens Gitmo and a couple thousand crisis actors will be spilling their guts when faced with life in solitary confinement. Just get your wealth returned to you in cash, gold, real estate, clean up this place, dissolve the UN and banking structure. Get back to living.
Mossad/CIA with the aid of the Israeli and Saudi Arabian goverments carried out 911
Mossad/CIA with the aid of the Israeli and Saudi Arabian goverments carried out 911
Larry Silverstein committed mass murder while committing insurance fraud.
Larry Silverstein committed mass murder while committing insurance fraud.
Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney aided and abetted the enemy.
Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney aided and abetted the enemy.
Trojan.swifi has just hit me on 2 different computers (work and play) and this site along with YT and FB were only sites accessed at time. Everyone - run a scan.
It had already taken root in the early 1980s, and people were already complaining about it. The problem is that everything in America is a commodity. To acquire commodities is the only value. All other values are for suckers in America. We've just gone 30+ more years down that road. There were still a few people in the 10980s who believed in such things as public spirit, non-material goals and values, and that there were things you wouldn't do even to win. There still are, but a lot fewer. Everything else in the culture has been hijacked to the interests of acquisition. And since there truly are winners and losers, and the fewer remaining winners tend to be very good indeed at winning, there are more and more losers and their behavior reflects the same.
Any matters of race, morals, religion, culture, manners, parenthood, politics and all the other shibboleths dutifully trotted out are just purposeful distractions. This is what happens when greed is all that matters. Some say it's good. I don't find it compelling, myself, so I've accepted a place off to one side of it. I'll never be a big success, but I'll miss out on most of the failure, too.
I guess, people have no sense of self. What else could explain this? I have to laugh when I think of myself 125km from the nearest human being, completely oblivious to human beings in general, much less this nonsense. That is, until I make the mistake of browsing to ZH... my one annoying addiction. One of these days...
PS: I never did participate in xmas or other holidays or birthdays even when I lived in the more conventional world. From a very young age it was obvious how silly all these fictional role-playing games were.
nice that u can go without doing the holiday thing
this is the first year i didn't have to do thanksgiving (parents moved to az)
and it was pure wonderful bliss not to have to be with family
would be nice if i can skip xmas to.
You could also celebrate Christmas in a more organic sense. Like helping others with their physical and emotional needs. You don't need to buy a bunch of crap to do that.
The murder rate in 1983 was 8.3; in 2012 it was 4.7, and rates for other crimes have also dropped proportionately (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States). 1983 was not good times; it was when the boomers were at the age to be their most drugged and violent. The crimes committed then were horrendous. I'm Gen-x and when I describe the crime of the 70s/80s to people in their 20s, they just don't get it.
The abortion rate was WAY higher in 1983: 28.45 per 1000 women aged 15-44, versus only 15.9 in 2013 (http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/graphusabrate.html). It helps that young women get to keep their kids now; when the options were abortion or giving the kid up, women aborted them. Single motherhood sucks but abortion is worse.
Between the aging of the population and the locking up of people for just about anything (that does reduce crime, if at too high a price) and the reduction in lead exposure, and the acceptance of single mothers, a huge drop in crime and a huge drop in abortion is a gigantic improvement.
A lot of other things are worse now, however. No real food anymore, no families, religion is dead, no-one knows how to do anything real anymore, and it's all too crowded. There were jobs in '83 but they were based on debt and we know how that is turning out.
83 was the beginning of the computer manufacturing boom in the US. IBM, Apple, Compaq, Digital Equipment, Dell, Intel, HP etc. all manufacturing here in the US. People had value adding work and new technology right here. People felt needed and that gave them grounding.
Based on debt?
Credit was very hard to obtain. Interest rates were 16-20%. Most did lay-aways and similar. Never did I see people act in the manner they are today during holidays.
I meant that the government was borrowing money to function: government debt was what was keeping the system going forward at that point. Yes, interest rates were very high then if you wanted to borrow to buy a house or a TV (of course you could also earn interest on your savings, imagine that).
Lead is only one environmental factor.
Balance the elimination of that with the intake in so many food additives and GMO poison that lead looks good in comparison.
How about all the SSRi shootings since 1988? The rampant police state, the fascistic intolerance and closed-mindedness exhibited by teenagers and university students?
The fake Satanic Cult Children Sacrifice scare of the 80's and 90's?
Literally did not happen - at all. Not ONE incident, ever. Just a bunch of Social Workers justifying their degrees and suggesting things to toddlers.
People obsess about the same things that happened 50 years ago but blow it 100x out of proportion. Hallloween is safe, your kids have the same risk of encountering some sick bastard now as they did then, the world is not more dangerous but it IS scarier because everyone over-reacts.
what in the world is GMO poison?
I've got to agree, I remember late 60s and early 70s, as a grade schooler, and I mean 1st grade, walking about 2 miles to get home from school. Or when I was in 3rd grade being taught by the older kids the shortcut home which was a mile, crossing the busy 4 laner to get to my neighborhood.
My friends and I used to go out for 6-8 hours, without our parents knowing where the hell we were, what we were doing and just showing up at home at the proscribed time. There was little league and pee wee football, town organized basketball in the winter...but we got ourselves there. our parents didn't take us, organize caravans across the entire northeast to play soccer or hockey or baseball, we walked, got rides from other people or rode our bikes 15 miles to get to the various parks throughout the town (large town in CT of about 40k at the time). Today? every child is picked up by mommy. daddy drives them all over the place, for weekends even, to 'tournaments'.
The elitists have won....got the hamsters on the wheel.
I didn't get my toaster! Luckily Argos is doing this til Monday. #OccupyArgos. A movement worth fighting for
It seems that snatch and run has become the recognized method of getting stuff in some communities today.
Anyone who objects is obviously a racist.
So, watcha you're saying, Ferguson was an early 'black friday'. And in all the 'sympathy cities'?
I like it
The TV series Happy Days ran from 1974 to 1984, Mash 1972 to 1983...
What is on television today? Cheaters?
Reagan in the early 80s. Obama today. People did not choose the president, the media and banking leaders did. Nuff said about the degradation of society.
The decline has been intentionally managed. IMO, people have not been aware enough or strong enough to resist Satan's army.
I have an acquaintance that swears Happy Days is one of the the most obvious volleys in the culture war on TV. The desired state in that show was the hero, Arthur Fonzarelli, while Richie, Ralph Malph, Potsie....they were square, but Fonzie was the ultimate being, the hero. It's interesting....insidious....
Edit: However, I must admit Henry Winkler was great in Waterboy.
what happened to america or americans?
really, who cares, "americans"? no.
other than americans, seriously?
jeez, delusions are a dime a dozen.
psychological professions have emerged
to purge such debilitating frameworks
from individual consciousness, for a price
of course.
....
hilarity ensues.....
In his book "A Time For Action" written in 1980 William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury tells how he was "frightened and angry". In short he sounded the trumpet about how he saw the country was heading down the wrong path. William Simon (1927 – 2000) was a businessman, and a philanthropist. He became the Secretary of the Treasury on May 8, 1974, during the Nixon administration and was reappointed by President Ford and served until 1977.
Now after that brief run down I return to my point. David Stockman is correctly voicing the same concerns that haunted Simon before Paul Volcker crushed both inflation and reset the economic path for over a decade. The article below gives a few more details on this. Unfortunately we have gone to far this time and turning back does not seem to be an option. Back then it was millions and billions, today it has become trillions.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-time-for-action-1980.html
Im all for handing out weapons at the front door.
Gone are the days of Hickory Farms for Christmas. I'd take a summer sausage over this nonsense today.
That reminds me...
I got leftover cannolis in the fridge.
Time for coffee.
Marilyn Manson... kind of ironic don't you think?
the beautiful ppl the best song he wrote...
msg to all the arsehoes who think they are all it...
When I see these videos I visualize the roving gangs slowly expanding from the inner city, looting and killing as they go once their EBT stops working.
Little has changed in America since the first Black Friday, September 15, 1893, when an estimated 100,000 greedy settlers lined up on the Kansas - Oklahoma border for the opportunity to claim one of the 42,000 parcels of land in what was formerly the Indian Territory, granted to the Five Civilized Tribes in 1828. The door busters at Walmart have nothing on those folks.
People today are a cross between the fat (guilty there) people in the movie Wall-E and the mindless boobs in Idiocracy. Go and listen to video of those mobs (Okay, at Ferguson as well) and the high shrieking laughter they let out from time to time, and then watch Idiocracy. Mike Judge knew man, he knew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk
I agree with consumerism, as it leads to monetary wealth, but people don't know when to stop. Although I'm for Black Friday and think that people should have a surplus to spend, I think all spending on non-essentials should be temporarily banned and people should be forced to pay off their debts and such.
What happened?
We pandered to illegals, minorities and third worlders and let them grow inside the US like a well-fed virus.
Show me a mall with an all whitey shopping riot and I will eat my words.
I surprised that the ZH community hasn't identified these videos as false flag events.
The real slaughter is going on at home through internet purchasing. Millions of people now feel so smart as they sit home buying useless crap as they stay away from the other people who are the "animals".
Now just who are the ones that are captured in their cages?
Many don't have the time or energy because they are working to pay the free shit crowd to stand in line and fight for stupid shit.
Who the F' wants to be around that stupidity.
Don't disparage animals by comparing them to these zombies..
Seasons Greedings
and to all the panty-waist liberals:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Society hadn't turned away from the "g0d" of the bible enough yet - in fact, TV evangelists and the "Christian" Ziopath movement, as well as the Jews-pretending-to-be-Christians phenomenon - both groups very eager to kill a bunch of brown people so Jesus can come back and/or Jews can rule over 'the nations'...
If not the biggest part of the problem, they sure aren't helping.
Reality TV has also lowered the bar, quite a bit...
people are also exposed to far more advertising and propaganda, all while public education has declined in quality and few think for themselves - as the Bible-belters even here suggest.
I've only read a handful of your posts. You're a moron.
Though I agree about TeeVee.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.
OT:
Swiss vote no.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/all-vote-results--november-30/411...
There is no comparison between the 70's/80's to now.
What was once considered unacceptable behavior by the majority of a society is now a big fat 'meh.'
The problems in today's society is that morals are virtually none existent, lying, cheating and stealing is the norm for a large percentage of the population.
All brought to you by the entrenched communist in our government and government unions, starting with the Department of Education and the Teachers Unions. When a people are taught that they 'deserve' free shit, that they are victims, that they have a 'right' to another persons labors, bad shit is going to happen.
sounds like you are describing modern liberals
pretty much...but, i'd say 'progressives'....
Also, IMO, can't forget popular culture....MSM, movies, tv, of course infiltrated by communists in the 40s through the 60s. Now there is no opposition to them. Ever notice any comedy show, any talk show, they characterize anyone who thinks as a moral person, anyone who disagrees is stupid. Or, the implied stupidity of christians, people who righteous, walking the path, even in a non-religious way.
Kill TeeVee, now....or, at least know there is nothing 'on' that isn't trying to bend you..
Nixon was damned for a few lies....Clinton spun his into gold....
Once lying was transformed into 'spinning'.. and "Character didn't matter",
it was all but over for the old America.
THAT was the beginning of the end, not the 80s. In the 80s you still couldn't lie and get away with it in such a shameless way.
Clinton is the culprit.
And we still got the Rodham Hag in play!
IIRC, in the 80s, it was more about getting what you wanted. Logistics weren't as good then, and restocking was virtually non-existant. So, if you wanted that new "in toy", like "Tickle-Me-Elmo", or whatever, you got to the stores early. If you waited too long, your choices were limited. Not to mention that the stores were a mess because there was a shortage of temporary, low wage workers. I remember some stores actually having to close because they couldn't find people to work.
Now, it seems like people are just looking for a sale, and retailers are just looking to get people into their store. Both the retailers and the consumers will each be the means of their own ends.
What happened?
As a whole, (there will always be exceptions) The U.S. went from a civil society to a collection of Oxidizers.
The only thing that a vast majority of people create today is flushed down the toilet after they wipe the excess creation from their behinds.
To get really depressed, compare these Walmart water buffalos with the generation before the 70s--the WWII generation.
Can you imagine these pavement apes as Rosie the Riveter, or landing on Iwo Jima?
According to Strauss & Howe, the predominant "experts" on generation theory, the Millennials were supposed to be a carbon-copy of the GI Generation and fix everything. Pffffft.....HaHaHaHahhhh.....
America has lost god, the family and government. In all prior generations buying ‘stuff’ came from commitment to god, family formation and loving country in that order. Children of those generations had self commitment and saved big for the events in life like home, life insurance, a child’s education and retirement.
Then government stuck its ugly head in and said “… we will pay for (by taxing the hell out of you) many of the big events in life. And they drilled this into each new child’s head in school and public media.
Now we have new generations that could care less about life’s future financial commitments. Each new generation says in unison “…the government will pay for that…” Now personal commitment is concentrate on sloth, gluttony and personal satisfaction…
Substitution of a specific products for self worth began long before the 1980s, though.
Look at cultural ephemera: Early 20th century, The Children's Encyclopedia (http://childrensencyclopedia.blogspot.com) -- filled with patterns to make toys and games out of household scrap.
Look at vintage toys from the 1930s. They're mostly role-playing items, such as generic baby dolls, good quality miniature trucks, pull toys, wind-up toys. For older children crystal radio kits, working electric toy ovens, irons, sewing machines. Creative play required some amount of imagination and improvisation, and a lot of self-directed participation.
From the mid-'50s, early '60s, teevee advertising ramped up marketing for specific toys. Sure, there's a creative play element to Play Dough, Slinky, Silly Putty, Easy Bake Oven, but these are also Toys as Specific Cultural Icons. It's inferred that flour, salt and food coloring are inferior to the stuff in the yellow can.
That era is also notable for the rise of toys with their own identities -- culture changed from having 'a doll' to having a specific doll with a pre-determined personality, ie. Barbie and GI Joe, along with each's accoutrements and compliment of standard friends.
Imaginative play became structured around collections of mass produced items. In other words, conformity.
Look at the cradle-to-grave marketing we have today. God help you if you bring plain crib sheets to the baby shower, as the invitation requires Disney Babies regalia. A doll is not any good unless it has its own cartoon show, and every girl child is a Frozen princess for Halloween.
We've trained ourselves. This has nothing to do with race or (the absence) of religion. Every time each of us selects products which conform to national marketing, we also select a cultural identifier, and distance ourselves from the ability to perceived value in the thing itself.
Ya' gotta ask yourself why these Black Friday shoppers would debase themselves over trinkets. Maybe they're not fighting for the item itself, but, in their minds, for their own identity and self-worth in our culture.