Call me crazy, but I don't believe that the solution to righting a society full of vandals is to put an even bigger vandal in charge.Diebert van Rhijn wrote:As for Kevin's post, which merely answered a simple question in another thread, isn't that largely what he's been saying as well in this very thread? Perhaps he decreased 99% to 95% as far as the uselessness of journalism. If you take his post seriously, you'd have to also see why it's so irrelevant to condemn Trump for the things you listed. In that light, that of a degraded society full of vandals, it becomes actually utterly irrelevant and emotional to make such strong case against one single leader.
This will make you laugh. From a 2008 thread called Wealth and Responsibility:
Kevin Solway wrote:Some of the things which concern me deeply:Ryan Rudolph wrote:What warning signs do you see that tell you we could be heading for extreme economic/survival pressures?
1. The extreme complacency, greed, and removal from reality of most people in the developed world in particular. I'm thinking of children who don't know where milk comes from, or adults who don't understand how economies work (including politicians).
2. Reducing energy supply combined with increasing demand, combined with the large distances between food sources and populations.
3. Reducing fertility of soils, and loss of fertile soils to erosion, saltation, and other poisoning, and sea level rise.
4. Climate change.
5. The effects of pollutants and other chemicals on human biochemistry.
6. The social effects of overpopulation.
7. Fundamentalist Islam, and other crackpot religions.
8. All the above, combined with the human tendency to fly into a panic, en masse, which can send whole economies into a bottomless spiral, for little or no good reason.
Just to name a few.