Pops wrote:Luckily peak oil didn't make your list, those worries are past I guess.
vox_mundi wrote:Humans are herd animals.
If the herd is peaceful, the alpha males don't have to apply brutality to maintain order.
If the herd gets spooked, the alphas will use whatever measures are necessary to maintain order.
The one thing alphas fear more than confrontations is chaos.
Fear invites oppression.
We're in a predicament. We're past mitigation.
Ibon wrote:We have to recognize that when your motivation of self reliance is because you have lost faith in institutions this creates a porcupine mentality, overly defensive, overly fearful. This orientation does not build a nation, does not solve big systemic issues. This is mouse strategy. This is a major concern I see. We are oriented collectively more and more like mice.
vox_mundi wrote:Just that small problem of changing human nature.
Cog wrote:I don't want big systemic issues being solved. The collective is to be rightly feared since individual rights and freedoms are anathema to them.
I prefer being left alone without the collective guiding my every move. Sorry if that doesn't work for everyone.
And, I don't know, violence is sort of remote to most, let alone death. There is virtually 0% risk of being the victim of violence at the hands of a stranger in the US - one not texting while driving of course but I think we think the danger is large.
Ibon wrote:...Do you sense there is at the moment a collective "itch" more and more toward conflict and war?
Cog wrote:
The whole supposition of this thread is bogus. It theorizes we are all in fear and we need some big government to solve everything to assuage our fears.
If fear is on the rise and becoming a dominant force in the background shaping our culture, where will this take us moving forward?
How will this dominant sense of anxiety shape our world moving forward and how can this be mitigated?
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