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19 Signs That You Live In A Country That Has Gone Completely Insane
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The End of The American Dream blog,
Do you ever feel like you are living in a “Bizarro World”? That is how I feel much of the time. I look around and it seems as though some form of mass psychosis has descended on most of the population. Things that would have had Americans angrily marching in the streets a generation or two ago are now just accepted as “normal” by the “sheeple” that populate this nation. If the talking heads that endlessly spew nonsense at us through our televisions tell us to believe something, no matter how absurd it is, most people just go along with it. Before we had televisions and radios and computers and movies and the Internet, people actually had to do the hard work of thinking for themselves. But now we are all plugged into this giant “matrix” that tells us what to think, what to believe and how to feel about things. And unfortunately, the people that are telling us what to think and believe are delusional themselves. The blind are leading the blind, and as a result our nation is coming apart at the seams all around us.
The following are 19 signs that you live in a country that has gone completely insane…
#1 When those occupying the highest offices in the land tell you that an $18,000,000,000,000 debt is “under control“, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#2 When your president starts acting like an emperor and begins ruling by decree and your elected representatives won’t lift a finger to do anything to stop it, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#3 When the greatest dream in life for millions of your fellow citizens is to win the Powerball jackpot, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#4 When dressing up sex dolls in fashionable clothing and photographing them is considered to be art, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#5 When only 36 percent of the population can name all three branches of government, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#6 When a boy can sue his high school for not letting him use the girls’ restrooms and win $75,000 in “damages”, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#7 When people that want to have sex with their own family members start demanding “equal rights”, you live in a country that has gone completely insane…
#8 When pregnancy is considered to be a “disease” and babies are considered to be “liabilities”, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#9 When the federal government collects billions of our phone calls and emails and hardly anyone gets upset about it, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#10 When 30 million of your fellow citizens are taking antidepressants, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#11 When an endless stream of gang members, drug dealers, sexual predators, welfare parasites and Middle Eastern terrorists can enter the country illegally and nothing is done, but anyone who criticizes this is in danger of being put on an “enemies list“, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#12 When you can get arrested for “encouraging terrorism on Twitter“, but not for publicly burning the American flag in the middle of the street, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#13 When your military airdrops huge loads of weapons into the hands of the very terrorists that they are supposed to be fighting, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#14 When there are 2.5 million homeless children living in your nation and nobody is calling it a “national emergency”, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#15 When a fifth-grade student can get suspended from school for making an imaginary gun with his fingers, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#16 When Congress has to pass a law to keep federal workers from watching porn all day long, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#17 When the number of payday lenders is greater than the number of Starbucks locations, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#18 When an illegal immigrant can get a drivers’ license, but the head of a fire department of a major U.S. city is suspended from his job without pay for promoting sexual morality, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
#19 When the general public knows far more about Kim Kardashian than it does about the Federal Reserve, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
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If the house you live in has cars up on blocks on the front lawn, you might be a...
Er, wait, sorry, wrong routine.
-Chumblez.
If you live in a ramshackle rental house, but have an Escalade in the driveway...is crazy!
When you need to show an ID to buy a beer, but not to vote, you live in a country that has gone crazy...
What about 10 million who take a pill to burn fat while they are sleeping?
Moar Ice Cream please....
John David Ebert covers the decay of our civalization in depth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzwfs3DjSJg
We are all hard working Armenians and we can do better than this!
Only 19 signs? WTF?
How about a gazillion-zillion signs!
I had a dream last night I was piloting a plane
And all the passengers were drunk and insane
This insanity is from the sheeple not having any meaningful work to gratify them.
People are happy when they accomplish difficult tasks to have necessities to live.
Otherwise they become distracted with dis-functional pursuits seeking gratification.
Then they are easily manipulated by government and media with the most stupid promises of fulfillment.
We are long over due for a serious cultural correction back to hard reality
But the people will be all the happier for it!
when an ounce of the purest silver can only buy you a 6 pack of shitty quality beer.. you live in a yaddayadda..
Michael Snyder and his lists again! Not the best list either except for #9.
when gold is paper and paper is gold.
I read Spengler's "Deline of the West" and frankly was suprized what this man has done is very far vaway from what I get from Oswald Spengle. He has viewed his book from the point that many hisorians do, and conceptualize his writting. Not impressed. Milestones
When you can fight off 15 cops while jacking off and never miss a stroke, you are some sort of HERO.
http://izismile.com/2014/01/16/white_people_who_should_be_fined_for_bein...
Meth makes people crazy.
Yes, the matrix does
If you live in a ramshackle rental house, but have an Escalade in the driveway...is crazy!
When you paid more for an Escalade than the 30 year old house that you just finished paying off.
Yes, this country has gone completely insane. Which is why you need one of these to protect yourself and loved ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtzQRkrj0U
my buddy's step-mother makes $79 every hour on the computer . She has been fired from work for seven months but last month her income was $21705 just working on the computer for a few hours. why not check here... www.yelptrade.com
cool looks legit
There's a special place in hell for spammers like you!
didnt know granny porn was that popular
You don't know many government workers, do you. $79 an hour is a bargain if it keeps the bureaucrats from generating more regulations.
Its Zimbabwe dollars !
Maybe your buddy's step-mom would stay employed if she just took her loose fitting dentures out of her mouth before she sucks her clients dicks she could actually keep a job.
Feeling teeth on the tool makes any man a little nervous...
I tought it was your roomate's step sister.........
Gotta watch out for those homosensuals.
Whats a homosensual, Walter?
A sensual that is singular.
Shut the fuck up, Donny.,,you're outta your league!
AMERIKA NOT so Stronk!
Why should we go to the cinema if we have USA news?
When you watch the USA news you are at the cinema
Green screens, crisis actors, completely fictitious story lines (i.e. aluminum bodied planes smashing all the way through lyaers of reinforced steel girders in building and and coming out the other side)
You can't make this shit up unless you're in a movie studio
History will view America post 1913 very very badly when all the truth finally comes out and it will eventually.
#18 When an illegal immigrant can get a drivers’ license, but the head of a fire department of a major U.S. city is suspended from his job without pay for promoting sexual morality, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
Do you have ANY concept of what it means to get a driver's license? It's a FUCKING LICENSE. You submitted your right to travel for the privelige to drive. Of course they want everyone to get a fucking LICENSE. It's a corporation that wants revenue. I'll be at the Walmart tomorrow buying some lobster if anyone needs me. Then off to the applebees for a quick shift.
Walmart sells lobster?
They're actually large crayfish. But tasty if you eat enough of 'em.
The only way to fix the problem is a revolt. But wait....there is a law against that. A general Strike? That too is not Lawful.
If you have children do something...............anything will help.....somethings need big groups, other things need to be kept secret.........one problem is no one listens....no one cares.
It's been this way for the last 4000 years when the Egyptians were forcing people to build pyramids. It's never changed and it never will.
The clue is in the name. Revolution means full circle and history has proven time and time again that this is the case.
Yes, there is a law against revolution. George Washington and friends faced a similar problem, and took it very seriously. For better (if you're not a flaming liberal) or worse (if you're a feckless progressive) they chose to revolt and succeeded.
#7... she forgot the sarc tag. It's a slippery slope was her point.
The psychaiatrists tell me I'm insane, but I'm pretty sure it's everyone else.
Go with your instincts, except if they tell you to kill somebody, unless it is yourself.
Hint: Not cool to take any one with you.......... frowned upon.
So guillotines are out of the question?
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
Ours don't!!
(Sorry Love, I'm NOT climbing up the mast to get the Parrot down. He can stay up there all frickin night!!)
What do the voices in your head say?
So now you collect disability?
ps. we knew
/s
Any time I discuss this stuff with relatives they say I'm losing my mind. Little do they know, but I gave it away a long time ago, after actually thinking started to make my head hurt. It says something that no one's noticed.
RE
It's kind of your 1st Amendment right to do this*
*Responsibily and properly, to ensure that major injury or damage doesn't occur. So actually, buring something in the middle of the street is probably better than in a grass field.
Is it kinda a shitty thing to do (or burn any flag for that matter,......minus the Nazi flag which can be a great starter for fire pits)? Absolutely. But the 1st Amendment defends the right of people to be able to do it as a form of expression. I mean, why else did we kick out the UK for?
Because we would have said no to super size Macdonalds meals.
He who defines and controls the Belief System and the Monetary System, controls... EVERYTHING.
p.s. Moses, Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha all could have and should have to us this. But didn't. Lord Rothschild strongly hinted at this, but very few picked up on it and acted on it. What can I tell you?
Pass the bread. Pass the wine.
And everyone hates Hitler LOL to quote historians "Patton americas greatest general" Well George told the commie US war machine that taking "uncle Joes" side was the wrong move and to back Germany not USSR well the MIC knew who it wanted and it wasn't anyone putting an end to the above stated bullshit that has become murika... that was the plan still is the plan and always will be the plan. Wether you like it or not the world needs a New "Hitler". For those who claim to be "inteligent" or whatever titles you present yourselves with I suggest you do some deep research into both world wars.... cause and effects ...and as I keep hearing spouted around here ... FOLLOW THE MONEY. I'm not saying Hitler was a god or saint but the man had a plan that was far better than anything going on now. No man is an island and no man is perfect... But some do come closer than most. Forget the flag waiving bullshit common core ed you got. If people would actually research history and use the power of critical thinking I find that the fog seems to lift alot quicker. Putin is no saviour god or saint either, yet many seem to take that road .... The lesser of two evils I suppose.. who knows maybe Vlad is this generations Adolf. If so maybe people are picking the best "leader" for the current situation.
w2 was historys biggest double cross. we joined up with soviets just long enough to murder the leader of the rival gang, then we turned on them. scorcese should make a movie out of it
Something tells me "We" didn't do any such thing. I'm going with "We" are being fucked over and lead around by the nose by our either bought and paid for or horribly mislead leaders.
And Adolf looked pretty sharp in that blue cape outfit.
Half Lord Nelson. Half Bruce Wayne.
Shoulda quit while he was ahead.
Just for some perspective........ I live in Canada. Ever since I have been aware of the United States, we have usually consider the United American States insane. A little late to the party, bitchez.
But please don't change. The entertainment value is priceless.
Plus, some berry berry good ideas are generated.
This is not a pan.
You can stay in Canada. We will send all of the illegal aliens from Mexico and other places to you so you can have racial diversity. Also, when Isis attacks, we will respect your autonomy and not intervene. Good luck Diefenbaker!
What we fear is when the SHTF, all the liberals will have to flee like they did when they needed to dodge the draft and infect our country with sensuous nihilism
What's special about Canada is its "Dear Leader", little Stevie Harper. Without their Dear Leader Canada would be nothing.
If you like your Canada , you can keep your Canada.
"all the liberals will have to flee like they did when they needed to dodge the draft"
I dodged the draft. I am PROUD OF IT. I am not a liberal ever - I am a Ron Paul Independent
my responsibility was to fuck the system - nothing more nothing less in 1969. I joined the USAR which didnt go to Nam nor any other units - we all knew that before we joined to avoid the draft - so did:
Dan Quale
George Bush
Al Gore
Dick Cheney
Bill Clinton
Mit Romney
all these guys beat the system via:
USAR
Nationa Guard
Phoney Medical Deferments
Phoney Conscientious Objector Status
Phony Religious Deferments
in my unit was:
Lawyers
Cops
CPA's
Bankers
we played poker on Caven Point in the back of the Statue of Liberty one weekend a month - nothing else. we played in our heads - Michael Jacksons Theme before he wrote it: BEAT IT !
our collective responsibility is to fuck the system always......... every fuckin minute
the USA is a scumbag system:
THE PEOPLE WHO DIE AND GET DISMEMBERED AS ECONOMIC MERCENARIES ARE STUPID - THE WISE GUYS LISTED ABOVE PROVE IT !
How's the Crown treating you, serf?
The Queen , as head of state, gives us no trouble at all, unlike the imperial presidency that you ALL sport, Sport.
Say what you like about the Queen, but Her Majesty has an incredible memory.
Over forty years, I've only seen her three times, but she alway waves!
The Queen is unelected so fuck it really. You guys elected Obama. What's your excuse for having a crap leader?
According to some brilliant MIT professor (Gruber) the people who voted for Obama are "stupid".
So, theres that ;-)
What was the alternative....
So yes, it's fucked to begin with
I find Ricky, Julian, and Bubbles to be quite entertaining too. Sunnyvale no doubt represents Canada well........
Look up "Liquor and Whores" on youtube.
Trailer Park Boys, of course, being a sitcom, has some truth, but is not the Truth.
I would like to see an American version, but it would probably be watered down somehow like the British stuff is.
We don't water things down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcU7FaEEzNU
These Colors don't run.
Exception #1.............................
#7
umm....what exactly is a homosensual?
Michael Snyder, you're a modern day Martin L. Gross!
Problem is he was writing the exact same kinds of lists twenty years ago.
So I'd like to know just what you want to do about it, or are you just trying to profit from it like Mr. Gross did with his books?
As for me, I don't expect to profit from it, all I've done is try to avoid the insanity - Stack & go Galt.
But I'm open to some sort of constructive activism if I thought it had a chance to work.
Occupy Wall Street, the Left's response to the insanity, failed.
The Tea Party, the Right's response to the insanity, also failed.
What's left to do, other than hang those responsible for the insanity after the SHTF?
Any "activisim" or "working within the system" only leads to strengthening the system Their system. In simpler terms the only way to subvert an "enemy" is through direct action. Voting, protests banner waiving flag waiving blah blah blah will effect NO change. "The prisoners need to take the prison". The whole mess is unfolding at a rabid (yes rabid ) pace because of only thinking inside the "BOX" until enough people put aside their petty differences and work as a unit for the betterment of the whole, nothing will ever change. The only recourse is to "storm the bastille" It won't be pretty and that folks is why it won't be done. There are to many arm chair generals and no troops. Prepping and shunting yourself from reallity is just more in-action...a feel good ... Bottom line is this... NO ONE IS WILLING TO DIE FOR THEIR BELIEFS/RIGHTS/WEALTH/FAMILY etc etc. All you are going to see is a civil war a "Prison riot" the warden(s) will still be in charge when the smoke clears... same as it ever was. So keep buying guns stacking gold and silver hoarding canned goods etc etc you may increase your chances of survival but only to be ruled over again, and when it comes it will be worse... much worse.
....why die for liberty when you have an EBT card, an obamyfone, free obamyscare and other free this & and free that..
Silver I didn't give you a neg vote either just so you know !
#7 made me retch. Disgusting woman.
Worse, even, than Woody Allen.
#1 Fukushima (and you really only need to read this 1)
but #2 Thrown in for good measure
#2 100% of bond issuances by MoF being bought by BoJ
You've got it good America
when you have a leader who pretends to be everything he is not, a citizen, a champion of civil rights, and a progressive. he probably pretends to be a husband too, which is why his wife hates him, and his kids hate him for pretending to be a father. somebody who doesnt give a crap gets far more respect, which is what a president should be somebody who doesnt give a crap about one persons problem or anothers, he just runs the country according to the constituion, and he can give a crap about that too, as long AS HE DOES HIS JOB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2c32SvJf54
Nice list, but some of it betrays the FOX conservative here. Social issues like flag buring, which never happens but in the rarest of events, is trotted out, I know at once it is the same old social conservatives who always let the warfare state off the hook. He seems to forget the bankers bailouts. He lets wall-street manipulation slip his mind. The CIA and NSA police state gets slight mention, as tapping phones, when the real thing is a total fascist police state. A nation just declared war on Russia without asking us people. The cop culture, slipped his mind.
Ah fuck it! Why do I waste the key stokes. Just another conservative southern repblican letting his crooks off the hook while going after abortion. If abortion bothers HIM, he need not get one. Yet he seems well fit to tell women how they must live, when they make up 50% of this nation. Bible belt fucker just betrayed himself. More by who he forgets to mention than by those he does. I can give him 20 reasons America is a crony capitalist fascist police state with no capitalism or free markets. Only communism for the 1%. The rigged game sold to us as freedom!
Tax incentives for businesses that are in the DOD industry are the same as giving money to people?
Incentives reduce liability. A discount of NN%.
Welfare is handing money to people 100% and demanding nothing productive in return.
The MIC is a problem, but they DO actually make something with all of that money.
Welfare queens produce nothing.
Welfare queens produce cannon fodder for the MIC. Someone has to use all those cool toys to kill other fodder.
>>>social conservatives who always let the warfare state off the hook
It is truly amazing what "conservatives" let off the hook. Even today, National Review is praising Bill Clinton's deregulation of the "banking industry".
I'm afraid that re-education camps alone will just not do the trick.
You are right Jack but your delivery was not good. Instead of putting the author down you should have added to the list and left it at that.
RIP USA
It was nice knowing you in the good old days, when Disney built his land, Wright Brothers built the plane, Edison invented the bulb, they danced in the town square, people knew each other, Martin Luther King spoke and people listened, and when JFK drew a line Kruschev knew he meant it.
There was something different then. It wasn't perfect, far from it, but it had character, freedom was cherished. They wouldn't have dreamed of drugging kids with ritalin to pay attention. I don't think Kardashian would have lasted then, Norma Jean couldn't really act, but at least she starred in movies, not the kind Kim starred in.
The "something different" in days past was that many people aspired to live up to the ideals of the place, and to do so was considered a good and noble thing.
Nowadays, many people aspire to tear down everything our country stands for and has accomplished, and somehow, the act of tearing it all down is considered by many to be a good and noble thing.
Our culture has totally lost it.
Get off my lawn!
Edison never invented the bulb. True story.
I wish there is a museum of 9,999 filaments that failed.
BTW who was counting ?
That honour goes to (Sir) Joseph Wilson Swan (born in Durham, UK).
Some of his early carbon-filament bulbs reside in the Science Museum, and in Durham Museum.
When Edison fucked Tesla... the good old days indeed.
JPM made Edison an offer he could not refuse.
>Edison invented the bulb
But Tesla invented the AC generator and Edison perspired too much.
Pure nostalgia. It was just as creepy in the "good old days" as it is now. You just didn't hear about it as much because there was no internet and the TV only had two channels.
"#2 When your president starts acting like an emperor and begins ruling by decree and your elected representatives won’t lift a finger to do anything to stop it, you live in a country that has gone completely insane."
The two dominant political parties are under the sway of corporate donors and lobbyists on the issue of legalizing illegal immigrants. I believe many Democrats and Republicans alike "support" the legalization of illegal immigrants because corporations believe this will stoke more consumption (and provide cheap labor). I don't believe that this is really about "humans rights" to corporations. This is primarily about increasing consumption (imo).
Decent film worth viewing:
The Corporation (2003)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/
I fear mikey's lil' cult is driving him... Completely Insane.
What a bunch of social conservative crap. You want to live in a theocracy. The most freedom hating bigots are these conservatives. Religous crap from ugly bigots. Live your life and leave othefs alone. The christian taliban is the worst part of this country.
From what cesspool did you germinate? HuffPuff is to the left, backtrack if you can.
#7. It's called a Twitter joke format. Since it was a joke it doesn't need a sarc tag. If you didn't realize it was a joke you probably shouldn't be on Twitter.
This article was like reading humor from someone that thinks sweater vests are practical and good looking.
They aren't ?
Learn something new, everyday at ZH.
#5 The three branches of government: The FED, Wall Street and the Pentagon.
#5 The three branches of government: The FED, Wall Street and the Pentagram.
fixed
welcome to obamastan!!
#19 is really the only one i care about fuck the rest of the idiots
Sorry but imo those sex dolls are hot. £4,000 is a bargain.
And you only have to pay once!
no diseased crack hos, no baby daddy payments, no losing the house in a divorce, no "i have a headache", no nagging. jesus, teach that robot bitch to make me a sammich and it's a deal!
Wait until the robotics improve....
lol troll tweet.
Up until 50 years ago, if you thought you lived in a country that had gone insane, you could move to the United States. Today, the whole world has gone insane.
If you think your inner sanctum protects you from the starving, crawling Africans... that paying half in taxes is somehow worse than that you've gone completely insane. If you think that Christianity is the core belief system of the United States, and modern Christians aren't practicing witchcraft you've gone completely insane. If you think there's enough gdp to get the United States, no for the world... not another 10 or 20 years, but past the next stage in the business cycle, you've gone completely insane. (The United States consumes around 30-40%, when everyone else will work for jack shit doesn't it sound like we have it a little better than the odds?)
You couldn't find #20? No respect for round numbers?
I am disappointed... truly.
#1 When we allow dual citizens to hold any governmental jobs the country has truly gone insane.
One commonality in all this nonsense is that it seems like the objective is to keep americans stupid, fighting amongst themselves and distracted from how irresponsible government really is. We are goin down in flames.
Back to doing ridiculous Doomer lists. More tired and worse than Letterman's Top Ten lists.
"#13 When your military airdrops huge loads of weapons into the hands of the very terrorists [ISIS] that they are supposed to be fighting, you live in a country that has gone completely insane."
It wasn't long after this that John Kerry said "it might take years to defeat ISIS."
Why not discuss the most fundamental insanities?
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You know you live on a completely insane planet when...
#1: 99.999% of humans believe someone has authority over them.
#2: 99.999% of humans believe governments exist.
#3: 99.999% of humans believe corporations exist.
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I won't continue, that's enough.
Seriously! Don't humans ever ask themselves how any other human being could possibly ever gain authority over them? After all, every human being comes to exist in the same manner, so the mere symmetry of that situation proves nobody can have any more basis to be an authority over you... than you have to be an authority over them. Namely, zero.
Seriously! Don't humans ever ask themselves what happens when a couple dozen human beings sit around a table, smear ink (or toner) on paper, then scribble more ink on paper at the bottom in the shapes of their names? Does anything pop into existence? Obviously not... which means nothing real was created, no "government" came to exist. And further, don't humans ever ask themselves whether a document written and signed by a couple dozen human beings can POSSIBLY obligate millions or billions of other human beings... even hundreds or thousands of years later?
Yes, almost every human on the planet is insane in the most fundamental possible way, namely, inability to distinguish what is real from what is not.
And humans wonder why "the world seems insane"? Well, that's because THEY are insane. And not just a little bit insane, but utterly, totally, radically, completely and fundamentally insane. They are stark raving lunatics to the very core of their being.
Sadly, the 0.001% of humans who understand the above... have mostly decided to take advantage of this overwhelming human insanity to become more effective and monstrous predators. And they diligently work to further the rampant insanity crippling the human race rather than help humans become sane.
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Seriously. If you really believe that a pack of human predators signing a piece of paper can somehow magically grant them authority over everyone on a planet (or continent), and obligate and enslave everyone therein...
... you really do believe in some completely insane sort of fictional magic that is 100% false and bogus in every possible way.
... and you are part of the 99.999% who make human life the cruel joke it is.
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Sanity is seeing what's in front of your face, and not seeing what isn't.
Think about that for a while. Think deeply. Then wake up and get real.
It's a written agreement of an organisation, a concept, that the writers and signatories and ruled agreed to.
If you don't agree to it, then it does not apply to you - simple enough for you and I to understand, but in the eyes of the writers we are sociopaths.
Keep being an independent mobile unit and under the radar and no one will care about where you are, who you are, and what you do.
Drive to 2031 and the incline to 2034...
You know you are insane when someone else knows more about you, than you know about yourself. Fixed it for ya, I'm guessing you are a flatliner, the combination of the two can't be beat for true insanity.
"After all, every human being comes to exist in the same manner, so the mere symmetry of that situation proves nobody can have any more basis to be an authority over you... "
In the same manner ? Really ? I am 99.99 percent sure ( so to speak ) you did not come to existence in a dark hut in Africa, hours of walking or cycling away from the nearest "hospital".
But an argument can be made that at birth eveybody should be equal, yes. At some age meritocracy can take over. Because we do not stay equal...
Your thinking is a recipe for anarchy, a weak form of (dis)organisation that loses out against other forms of organisation. It 's social Darwinism I guess. I am not sure it can be avoided.
You were born, they were born, everyone was born. That's how you all came to exist. Exactly how you confuse how vs where... I'm not sure.
The point was... and is... that no way exists for one human being to gain authority over any other human being. The entire notion of "authority" has been perverted and is now a complete lie. The original idea of "authority" came from "author", which simply was the implication that an "author" tends to "know more" about a topic than others (most of his readers). It had nothing to do with control, theft or enslavement.
The fact is, humans have no chance... because they are so overwhelmingly brainwashed into hyper-extreme insanity. However, if even a couple percent of humans clearly understood what I said previously, and decided to "do something about it", all the kings horses and all the kings men... would be dead. Along with the king.
And mankind would be free... or, as free as can be expected. The point is, humans would exterminate human predators with as little thought or hesitation as they exterminte the less dangerous predators in the animal world. And that would be that.
But they won't, because humans will not figure out that the situation is precisely what I said, and precisely as simple as what I said.
Good Thread Honestann.
I like your thinking process.
I have lived on the edge most of my life because I don't accept someone thinking they can lord it over me.
It has cost me, but it was worth it. I have respect for others. I have walked out of good jobs with company cars, etc because they thought they could control me through the 'pay check'. .gov? I don't take anything from them except roads and education for kids which I have more than paid my share of. In my 6+ decades here, the police never did anything for me except give me a ticket or throw me in jail for a night or two.
Usually when someone was getting assaulted or something of that nature, they were never there, we had to deal with it ourselves and we did. For me, government and rulers represent a big leech.
When I was in 6th grade, I told the school bully, "You're not the boss of me!" After I picked my self up and wiped the blood off of my face, I decided to rethink that proposition.
Anyone who has greater power, better weapons, control over your livlihood or your ability to eat or breathe does, of course, have "authority" over you. You can choose to deny it and let them batter your body and/or your psyche, all while you are protesting, "You are not the boss of me," but you would be delusional. You do not have to agree to this social contract to be a participant in it, no matter how unwilling.
Your ideas are noble, but naive in the extreme. Might = right. Always has. Always will, until a sufficiently large group mounts and successfully proffers an insurrection, overthrows the "authority" and temporarily changes the equation. People have experienced this cycle many times throughout history, only to discover a new "authority" (perhaps of their own making) and the proletariat forever remain hapless and helpless. Out with the old boss... in with the new boss. All because of the fundamental evil that permeates human thought and motivates human behavior - greed.
You know what? Go ahead and re-define concepts for your own self-delusion. I can't stop you, and I won't bother trying. However, if you ever want to improve your situation, I can assure you that the first and most important step is to be thoroughly and intransigently honest with yourself.
Which means, stop adopting the sound-bite lies that the crafty human predators-that-be concoct and provide for your intellectual self-delusion, to make yourself feel better about being a willing participant in your enslavement. And further, you become their aid, their ally, their source of funds, their apologist, their propagandist and their comrade... even as they screw you blind.
I clearly remember taking the most important intellectual step of my life when I was 4 years old, an intellectual step that explains why I am radically and fundamentally different than you and almost every other human being on the planet.
I see you clearly remember taking [one of] the most important intellectual steps of your life when you were 6 years old, and intellectual step that explains why you are doomed to be a slave and prey to the human predators and parasites on this planet. You are suffering, and will continue to suffer the consequences of your mistake, and the actions they lead to.
I do not doubt that threats of violence and harm can be motivations. However, no matter how you spin and twist the consequences of that fact, it cannot lead to any of your conclusions, most certainly including "might == right". For any slightly sane human being, to arrive at such an obvious falsehood would be a clue you made a mistake somewhere along the line, and need to revisit your thought processes. For you... and most others... it means nothing, because you have surrendered your brain and mind to the predators, who now own you to the core (your consciousness).
I need to run, or I would go into more detail. Maybe when I return I will add more. Maybe not.
I'm sure the Romans had plenty of articles just like this one a few years before the end of their empire.
Maybe would could decorate Penn. Ave like the Athenian Way.
Would it be long enough ?
The other day I caught some Mexican lawn mower dudes stealing fruit off a neighbors tree and I started yelling at them. They of course got all paranoid and jumped back in their old truck and left.
I posted what I saw on the neighborhood HOA website and by far more people started bashing me for identifying these theives as "Mexicans" than anyone ever had a thought about their act of theivery.
I am thoroughly sick of political correctness that is forced upon white people. I hate that I have to be made to feel in the wrong because I identify a criminal by their ethnicity. It seems that any Mexican (LULAC), La Raza) or Black (NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, NOI)can speak as freely as they desire and they're never called out for it. How many Mexicans or Blacks can anyone name thats ever been charged with a hate crime? For that matter, why are there days and weeks of rioting tolerated by those of the "special" ethnic groups that are mad because a cop, who happened to be white, decided he did not want his weapon taken and used against him and defended himself? It is my opinion that every person that participates in these acts is commiting a hate crime themselves.
"posted on HOA website"
You are pretty obviouslyliving in the kind of neighborhood where the inhabitants let fruit rot on the trees while they go to their neighborhood supermarket and pay exhorbitant prices for the same fruit, except that it has been properly pesticide coated and preservative treated.
I may be insane but my doctor says I'm feeling much better.
When at least half of the 19 point someone thinks they have are half-truths at best and most readers cluck with approval or worse make up some more "points", you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
I couldn't even finish reading this piece of crp article
The truth hurts doesn't it?
We Need to Talk About Sandy Hook- new documentay
http://winteractionables.com/?p=16956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESJBhN4HVMM
Some good points, but what Mr. Snyder is really saying is "because the USA is not more right-wing it is insane". To have a list of 19 things and not mention the Wall Street and military-industrial complex "Vampire Squids" is also insane. Those are the two entities largely responsible for pauperizing us, and that's the root of a lot of the other problems.
That's crazy talk.
when you put a communist in the white house, the freaks and their beliefs get pumped at the new norm
fuck you barry
#20. When infinite debt obligations and spending are rewarded, but, savings and investment are penalized, you live in a country that has gone completely insane.
The neocons want to deliver the kill shot to Russia, and start WWIII, and Barry, the stinking CIA Manchurian Candidate that he is (perhaps just doing what it necessary to keep himself and his family alive) is going along with them, the slimy bastard
"The Greatest Country in the World"..
"We are the indispensable nation" (Madelaine Albright)
What a bunch of religous right bull shit. Fuck the bigot author.
You know when someone uses that tired old cliche "sheeple" that you're dealing with a bona fida sheep.
I did not agree with all his stands or opinions but took it more as a general or generic statement so I found it less offensive that someone else might.
Bad behavior has it's rewards: 'Monkey Business" gets a promotion....
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/21/us-britain-usa-northernireland...
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What is insane is that almost on a daily basis people are voluntarily relinquishing their rights without even blinking an eye, not knowing once gone, you never get them back.
Sadly his list more or less extends to countries across the world and as mankind has progressed it has hit a wall of incompetence. To all the people who think the worlds surging population will not become a problem because of new energy sources I say, wake up! Anyone with even the slightest mechanical knowledge will tell you that solar panels, wind mills and such take a lot of energy to build and often are maintenance intense.
Both these complicated systems have a short lifespan and require a great deal of energy to be expended in just keeping them up and running. Carry no illusions the days of cheap energy are behind us and not only has the low hanging fruit been picked it has been eaten. Sadly, if we look back we will see much of this energy was allowed to go to waste. The article below looks into the cost of failing to plan long-term and questions if collectively mankind is incompetent.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/12/does-peter-principle-apply-to-mankind.html