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Originally posted by pieman
reply to post by The Last Man on Earth
i'll try not to lose sleep over your level of respect for me. people have a responsibility for their own safety, how you don't see that is beyond me. i don't buy this "i'm a victim, boo hoo hoo" rubbish. you don't walk into a lions den and complain about being bitten. grow up.
Originally posted by mopusvindictus
reply to post by Freeborn
Agreed, on topic...
But would simply add, British male youth are being made into a bunch of flower loving psuedo transexuals even as we speak...
Put more Estrogen in the milk and hope for the best lol... give them a life record for a fight after a soccer game
It's sad...
Taking the fist fight away from a Brit is like taking Honey from Bees...
Originally posted by Sonya610
Interesting new phenomena. Apparently the social networking site www.ourspace.com (The leading social networking site for African Americans) is being used to organize these small riots. Two weekends in a row too! I wonder if this will catch on in other parts of the country.
These rampaging "teens" are linked to the local Jr. High School and an online social networking site? Last time I checked the poverty stricken were NOT hanging out on social networking sites, so I guess the old standby excuse of poverty and oppression won't play out so well this time around.
The news video is better than the article.
abclocal.go.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
[edit on 2-6-2009 by Sonya610]
“It’s a sorry story you have there, a story of hopelessness and futility, a story in which there is literally nothing to be done. Man is flawed, so he keeps on screwing up what should be paradise, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You don’t know how to live so as to stop screwing up paradise, and there’s nothing you can do about that. So there you are, rushing headlong toward catastrophe, and all you can do is watch it come.”
“Yes, that’s the way it seems.”
“With nothing but this wretched story to enact, it’s no wonder so many of you spend your lives stoned on drugs or booze or television. It’s no wonder so many of you go mad or become suicidal.”
Basic, vital needs or tribal needs are not being satisfied in civilization, and this produces frustration, which in turn activates aggression. As civilization "progresses" toward global interlock among new technological forms, we are removed farther and farther from the simple and basic joys of life, sitting in a shaft of sunlight, conversing around a fire, food-sharing, walking, the blue sky overhead, and so frustration and aggression also progress. More and more of a person's concern and compassion for others and the natural world are withdrawing, and re-focusing on the self, in order to neutralize the growing frustration and anger within. This is the psychological explanation for the culture of selfishness that is underway everywhere in the modern world the first step on the road to insanity.
The second step, which is now on the horizon, is megalomania, a severe pathological state of consciousness in which the steady withdrawal of love from others and nature gives rise to the deluded mental condition of exalted self-importance. The megalomaniac feels more and more powerful, euphoric, and in control of things (due to an abnormally inflated self-love), while in reality s/he is becoming more and more isolated, impotent, and out of control (due to an excessive loss of love for others and nature). This pathological condition of megalomania is fueled by inner hatred, which is desperately seeking pacification by consuming more and more of a person's available love, but it fails entirely to deal with the root-cause of our mental illness, namely, unmet primitive needs.
Young people know it most certainly; we call that knowledge idealism.
They know that there is a way the world is supposed to be, and a magnificent role for themselves in that more beautiful world. Broken to the lesser lives we offer them, they react with hostility, rage, cynicism, depression, escapism, or self-destruction—all the defining qualities of modern adolescence. Then we blame them for not bringing these qualities under control, and when they finally have given up their idealism we call them mature. Having given up their idealism, they can get on with the business of survival: practicality and security, comfort and safety, which is what we are left with in the absence of purpose. So we suggest they major in something practical, stay out of trouble, don't take risks, build a résumé. We think we are practical and wise in the ways of the world. Really we are just broken and afraid. We are afraid on their behalf, and, less nobly, we are afraid of what their idealism shows us: the plunder and betrayal of our own youthful possibilities. The recovery of purpose, the acceptance of teleology into the language of science, promises whether directly or metaphorically to undo all of that.
Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. Boys and girls are drilled in being bored, frightened, envious, emotionally needy, generally incomplete. A successful mass production economy requires such a clientele. A small business, small farm economy like that of the Amish requires individual competence, thoughtfulness, compassion, and universal participation; our own requires a managed mass of leveled, spiritless, anxious, familyless, friendless, godless, and obedient people who believe the difference between "Cheers" and "Seinfeld" is worth arguing about.
Originally posted by Sonya610
Interesting new phenomena. Apparently the social networking site www.ourspace.com (The leading social networking site for African Americans) is being used to organize these small riots. Two weekends in a row too! I wonder if this will catch on in other parts of the country.
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Originally posted by NathanNewZealand
reply to post by blueorder
What's with all the racist arguements? How is this, in any way, a racist event? A group of 'teens' was the story, not a group of 'blacks'.
Originally posted by triplesod
Why does no one ever pull you up on this agenda of yours?