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If all these two faced idiots really feel this strongly why don’t they give away all they have and live a simple poppers life?
originally posted by: PiratesCut
And here I am using two ovens to cook for family tonight the meal is so big.
Main dishes are 10 pound Yankee Pot Roast and a huge fresh made Lobster Mac & Cheese.
I steamed twelve 2 pound lobsters to make it using 3 pounds of different cheeses.
I could go on about the food…..
Later we are making a big fire with Cedar and Oak my Son In-laws cut just last Fall.
Kids will be making Smores and the ladies enjoying wine.
I already called dibs on the Jacuzzi Hot tub for later tonight.
SO, some rich phonies thinks people not should not have as much as they do?
Who? The idiots who fly their jets all over the world to have meetings about people who have too much?
Spare me the BS…..
Kurt Vollegut wrote an excellent short story regarding forced equality. In his “Harrison Bergeron,” the government has achieved equality only by forcing everyone into the lowest common denominator.
originally posted by: olaru12
a reply to: zosimov
Kurt Vollegut wrote an excellent short story regarding forced equality. In his “Harrison Bergeron,” the government has achieved equality only by forcing everyone into the lowest common denominator.
Mr. Vollegut was a profit.
The Beautiful Ones
I can’t help but think that this place is the human version of The Rat Utopia. In 1958, John Calhoun, an ethologist, started to build his Rat Utopia with the help of the National Institute of Mental Health. (The Secret of NIMH & MKULTRA) They purchased property in Maryland for Calhoun to turn into his experimental rat heaven.
Calhoun would drop rats into a pre-fab world where food and water and shelter was always available. He’d keep them free from disease and watch the population grow. He noticed behavioral patterns emerge as the population increased, and as the “overcrowding” persisted he came up with the idea of the “behavioral sink.” This meant that at a certain point, due to population density, a civilization would collapse under its own weight.
The Hope Experiment
When I try to look at humanity as a whole, it seems like becoming a risk averse species will be our downfall. We must be able to mitigate risk and fear with hope and culture in order to send the next generation into the chaos of existence.
But none of that really matters if a majority of us have become, or are becoming, the beautiful ones. Weinstein points to birth control as an invention that might be something that’s led to what Calhoun would’ve called the “equilibrium.”
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“Well, I’ll tell you what,” Weinstein said. “I think our hope needs to be decoupled from the actual evidence that there’s a positive ending to all this.”
SHANE CASHMAN: THE BEAUTIFUL ONES IN UNIVERSE 25
originally posted by: Crowfoot
a reply to: GraffikPleasure
China is a contractor for goods and services as a mainstay.
If they send a cooler to someone that contracted them to make and sell them with their name on it they will.
The problem? This cooler is too damn good and other sellers of coolers are wanting to kill us.
Ok we can make the handle flimsy so it lasts less time
GREAT!
Oh no now they still keep it but it is still too good and people are complaining
Ok we can make the hinges break after a certain amount of openings and closings
GREAT!
What happened?
China got blamed as a contractor that was just doing their job.