Tom Wolf was right - you can't go home again and you can't be young again. Time passes. Kali, the great destroyer, is time.
I'm tired of old insane boomers insisting they are young and entitled to power. The truth is you are an old dog that should be glad to nap in the sun and remember your glory days. And pass the baton to the young you have taught. What a joke. As though the education system you passed on was worth a shit.
I read something somewhere that said Western Civilization always contained the seed of it's own destruction in the promotion of freedom.
Western Civilization always had it's reins held in check by the conservative philosophy of Christianity. Respect the past and proceed slowly. Christianity, as part of the foundation of Western Civilization, is a test of faith to determine how easily you can be seduced from your core values by arguments appealing to your baser instincts as well as the soundness your reasoning abilities. Do you proceed cautiously, or do you rush into the unknown?
Well we are seeing Western Civilization freedom extrapolated to it's inevitable conclusion in spades as everyone demands freedom for everything. But not just freedom but respect and indulgence - without demonstrating why this should be granted. Freedom is an individual quality - you do what you want and accept the consequences. Respect is a socially earned quality - you do what society values and you receive acknowledgement. You cannot equate these two completely separate qualities, nor demand that they be synonymous. The language speaks for itself - I Demand, I Earn.
I lived through one of the greatest periods in history. Living in Hawaii and commuting to Korea and Japan in the 80s. Amazing. I was very lucky and fortunate and took maximum benefit from that circumstance. And I have fond memories which sadly are fading. But I do not crave to recreate those experiences. That would be insane. I am older now. The world is different and has moved on to a darker period. I would go back to the Far East as an expat, but I know the experience would be far different. What would draw me would be the social values that instill earned respect versus the western values that demand unearned respect. Sometimes a man has to know his limitations and not foolishly grasp at illusions.
I see the West crumbling from the application of grotesquely distorted Christian values. The demand that everyone replace their historically vetted values with new values of their own immediate manufacture.
This has been predicted and will happen. Because people are people with all the potential greatness and hidden flaws central to our core of being. Nothing new under the sun.
A thoughtful comment by Joe. A short, concise comment by me - I do not have a fancy phone, as I am worried about EMF waves and cancer (and sometimes am lobbying against small cell towers placed too close to houses). I have a flip cell phone for emergency phone calls and occasional 4G photos that I can message. No email or internet by phone. I pay $100/year for messaging on the flip phone (sometimes with funds not used, so rolled over for next year). I communicate by landline phone and fiber optic (wired) desk computer.
Therefore, "chats" sound interesting, but I cannot participate. Not ignoring you. Lack equipment to join the conservation.
In addition, if worried about cancer, cut back significantly on eating sugar. Drink water. Exerrcise (at least some). Aim for 8 hours of sleep.
Tom Wolf was right - you can't go home again and you can't be young again. Time passes. Kali, the great destroyer, is time.
I'm tired of old insane boomers insisting they are young and entitled to power. The truth is you are an old dog that should be glad to nap in the sun and remember your glory days. And pass the baton to the young you have taught. What a joke. As though the education system you passed on was worth a shit.
I read something somewhere that said Western Civilization always contained the seed of it's own destruction in the promotion of freedom.
Western Civilization always had it's reins held in check by the conservative philosophy of Christianity. Respect the past and proceed slowly. Christianity, as part of the foundation of Western Civilization, is a test of faith to determine how easily you can be seduced from your core values by arguments appealing to your baser instincts as well as the soundness your reasoning abilities. Do you proceed cautiously, or do you rush into the unknown?
Well we are seeing Western Civilization freedom extrapolated to it's inevitable conclusion in spades as everyone demands freedom for everything. But not just freedom but respect and indulgence - without demonstrating why this should be granted. Freedom is an individual quality - you do what you want and accept the consequences. Respect is a socially earned quality - you do what society values and you receive acknowledgement. You cannot equate these two completely separate qualities, nor demand that they be synonymous. The language speaks for itself - I Demand, I Earn.
I lived through one of the greatest periods in history. Living in Hawaii and commuting to Korea and Japan in the 80s. Amazing. I was very lucky and fortunate and took maximum benefit from that circumstance. And I have fond memories which sadly are fading. But I do not crave to recreate those experiences. That would be insane. I am older now. The world is different and has moved on to a darker period. I would go back to the Far East as an expat, but I know the experience would be far different. What would draw me would be the social values that instill earned respect versus the western values that demand unearned respect. Sometimes a man has to know his limitations and not foolishly grasp at illusions.
I see the West crumbling from the application of grotesquely distorted Christian values. The demand that everyone replace their historically vetted values with new values of their own immediate manufacture.
This has been predicted and will happen. Because people are people with all the potential greatness and hidden flaws central to our core of being. Nothing new under the sun.
A thoughtful comment by Joe. A short, concise comment by me - I do not have a fancy phone, as I am worried about EMF waves and cancer (and sometimes am lobbying against small cell towers placed too close to houses). I have a flip cell phone for emergency phone calls and occasional 4G photos that I can message. No email or internet by phone. I pay $100/year for messaging on the flip phone (sometimes with funds not used, so rolled over for next year). I communicate by landline phone and fiber optic (wired) desk computer.
Therefore, "chats" sound interesting, but I cannot participate. Not ignoring you. Lack equipment to join the conservation.
In addition, if worried about cancer, cut back significantly on eating sugar. Drink water. Exerrcise (at least some). Aim for 8 hours of sleep.