dohboi wrote: I get the feeling from the recent conversation here that most of the posters here would gnash their teeth and tear their flesh much more agonizingly about the prospect of having even an ounce of steak taken away from their drooling mouths than at the prospect of never having unprotected heterosexual sex again.
Exactly!
And wouldn't it be interesting if we as armchair quarterbacks find out a thousand years from now that more meat and less pregnancy was indeed the right path? That the quest for more ultimately leads to less, but more or less wasn't the point anyway, just the centralized power it entails? That most of us aren't grown up enough to make even a small percentage of correct decisions on a continuing basis? That there are no correct decisions, just a need to maintain diversity and avoid mono everything?
These seem to me to be biological responses to a system out of equilibrium. How it got out of equilibrium I don't know - MIHOP? LIHOP? Supposed To Happen On Purpose (STHOP
)? I'm still working on that one. But as the path upwards seems to have been filled with hope, the path down will surely appear empty with despair. Hungry sick people freezing in the night and all that stuff.
You want change, but you don't know what it looks like.
When it creeps up and bites your ass, you act startled then self righteous.
It's all natural, all of it, even the stuff that seems artificial; we are part of nature.
Pay attention, it's happening quickly and is even surprising open-minded people.
This is what change looks like; deal with it in your own fashion.
I chose to deal with most of it on my own, because every time "we" get together "we" seem to make it worse, with an abundance of excuses and a lack of resources. For example, I've never met an individual from a INSERT ANY RACIAL POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS GROUP NAME HERE INCLUDING ONES I BELONG TO I didn't like, that I couldn't see good in; but as a group they can all go to hell. Especially baby makers, as they use their innocent children as an as excuse for their indecision and poor use of resources. I acknowledge this is most of us.
What's next - Massa tellin' me how much barbeque I can eat per sitting, ya know, for the kids?
Time to barbeque the Massa at that point!
This is capitalism - if it's not supposed to be happening, how the heck does it turn a profit? If it's not turning a profit, it stops.