Originally Posted by
osan
We are not on our way, as a people, a culture, a statistical glob, to destruction. We are already there - we most of us just do not yet realize it.
I read and hear words of the "we need to X..." sort, whether from libertarians, antifa, socialists, or whatever other label you care to cough up. Those words are always vague in the sense that they say what must be done in the opinion of he who utters, yet never tell us how to do them, nor do they suggest in the least manner how we do them such that we do not end up in an equally horrible position in the aftermath, or worse.
On the whole, we humans are utterly horrible creatures, our short but blood-soaked history a vulgar and frank testament to the truth of the assertion. There is little to recommend us, which may well be the reason we have not heard from other worlds. Who in their right minds would place into human hands the technologies that take objects between star systems? We cannot even handle our own means, much less those of more capable beings.
Note how all the classical big-mouths of history have told us precisely how to "revolution", yet not a one has uttered so much as a single meaningful peep as to how to live with one another; how to structure ourselves in aftermath such that we do not become precisely that which we just killed off. It is all well and good to speak of "draining the swamp" and all it implies, but nobody is talking much about what to do after the gore has painted our streets and the walls of the capitols.
Forgetting the rest of the world, we Americans are "slouching our ways to Gemmorah", as my little bro is fond of saying. At best, we have vague notions of proper human relations; of what it means to live in accord with our birthrights as free men, and here I am being generous to an ill-reasoned fault. In truth and in deeper detail, we have little clue as to what it means to be free. We do not, in fact, recognize actual freedom as such and when confronted with it even as a theory, most of us recoil in fear, horror, disgust, and openly hostile, dripping, raving hatred.
We, the most of us, have neither the recognition of what life in accord with proper relations between men is, nor the inclination toward learning.
Therefore, we are already destroyed. The only step that remains to us is to acknowledge and accept that this is the case. Because we will not change how we are in sufficient measure as a statistical whole, the only thing we can do is wait for the end, because that is where we are heading, "end" not necessarily meaning extinction of the genus, but certainly the end of any condition that anyone with sense would consider worth the living. The few with aspirations even the most meekly adventurous beyond the corridors our apparent future shall define for us, will be consumed as such temerity will one day soon meet with zero-tolerance.
This is where we stand, and that is where we are going, all by our own choices; all because we chose false convenience and token fortune over that which is right and proper.
Enjoy what you may, because I suspect things are only going to get worse as we lurch forward into a future that is very likely not worth the living. Even if a man like Trump turns out fulfilling his promise to us, what about the day he leaves office? Who and what will fill the vacuum? If he were the savior - the great drainer of the swamp, so what? Are we cut of a cloth to inherit the improved America? I say not. Why? Because we were and are not of the fabric to do this work ourselves. We pimped our responsibilities off onto the shoulder of a "leader", demurring so pathetically from being leaders ourselves. We deserve nothing of our freedoms - not a whit of it, but rather only the degradations of the slaves that we have become precisely because we are filthy little cowards, addicted to the aforementioned conveniences, cheap and tawdry.
Yes, whoop it up while you can. Indulge yourselves in the pretty lies and bull$#@!, because it matters no whit - we are destroyed.
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