Human nature. We need living people to tell us what happened the last time something happened society-wide, else we forget and repeat the same mistakes. It’s the whole hard times make strong men thing. It’s on about an 80 year cycle. The good news is that we’re right at the point in the cycle where real changes are easy to make.
Read the book The Fourth Turning for many examples of the pattern repeating.
I don’t know about that specifically, but he believes in simulation theory and thinks he’s the only human playing, and therefore the main character.
It’s “We” because “you” aren’t the subject of the article, it’s “We (the People).”
And you don’t think America is an empire? That’s a wild take on this site, most people treat that as a given.
They’re offering a second round of paid-leave-to-quit at the IRS, and a lot more employees are going to take it this time around. There’s not going to be many left.
All killing is murder, states are just gangs big enough to have a PR team and the ability to indoctrinate the youth into following their rules.
Good on South Carolina for making that more plain.
I have a copy of that book gathering dust, thanks for the motivation to continue
My brother got all the good genes, I got what was left
Christians would have to get a lot more serious about the commandment to swear no oaths
That, and good thing there isn’t a new pandemic brewing in birds and livestock.
Not yet. I did get a comment removed but successfully appealed for saying what citizens do to kings. The appeal was me saying it was in a historical context, of course ;)
They didn’t keep the mythological stuff, that got edited out too as needed once it started disagreeing with the State and the Church.
Psychedelics help you find out who you truly are underneath all the social conditioning.
Some people are assholes to the core and mushrooms reveal it.
Nobody’s getting the money, it’s going to predetermined “winners” like last time so it isn’t technically a lottery.
And it’s not about the money, it’s about getting people to vote that wouldn’t otherwise
So’s the 👌hand sign, I suppose I’m going to get dogpiled for that too?
Look outside, (big ask for this website), we’re literally in hard times made by weak men.
I swear, this site is worse than 4chan about groupthink. Someone uses a slightly weak example or a cancelled idiom and all your minds just shut off and you start parroting your self selected propaganda.