I think I understand: you’re saying that people doing idiotic things does not prevent them from positively impacting society.
I don’t disagree necessarily (there are people I care about that displayed some very similar idiocy to your hypothetical driver), even though the use of masks everywhere was an unmissable statement that SOMETHING was very wrong.
My ultimate concern, though is a lack of confidence that many people now in positions of authority, and people who will one day take over those positions are power hungry tyrants that think nothing about personal liberty.
The graduating classes of the University of Michigan and, the following week, Princeton each gave Fauci a standing ovation at their commencements. Many of those kids are obviously bound for influential and powerful gigs graduating from such (once?) prestigious schools. To graduate from such institutions lacking such basic character assessment, well not thinking they are going to make great choices in the future.
One does not need any Ivy League education to know Fauci is a supreme narcissist who was instrumental in pushing massively destructive mitigation measures. To think otherwise shows a profound ignorance.
As you say, the amount of “Germans/npcs/sheep” that are helpful to society is weird, but that’s what SO disturbing. I’m not a doctor, so I do occasionally need to see one, but my level of confidence in the entire medical profession is extremely low to say the least, as an example.
The other frustrating part is how those highly educated and credentialed “German’s” so willing turned Nazi at the mention of a virus.
If it were just the landscaper that was freaking out about a virus, I’d cut the grass myself. But when years of proven methods, definitions and basic, really, really recent history gets forgotten or twisted out of any recognizable form by the very class of people steeped in this knowledge, well, that’s a different ball of wax entirely.
That’s what’s been so surprising: how fear and propaganda over rode decades of excellent educations.
Successful societies are based on trust. Trust is built over long periods of time, but pissed down the toilet in seconds. The damage done/propagated/defended by the elites will take decades to fully see but it’s coming and in the mean time I hold nothing but contempt for them. Not for those still driving in there cars alone in a mask—I feel really sorry for those people.
I think I understand: you’re saying that people doing idiotic things does not prevent them from positively impacting society.
I don’t disagree necessarily (there are people I care about that displayed some very similar idiocy to your hypothetical driver), even though the use of masks everywhere was an unmissable statement that SOMETHING was very wrong.
My ultimate concern, though is a lack of confidence that many people now in positions of authority, and people who will one day take over those positions are power hungry tyrants that think nothing about personal liberty.
The graduating classes of the University of Michigan and, the following week, Princeton each gave Fauci a standing ovation at their commencements. Many of those kids are obviously bound for influential and powerful gigs graduating from such (once?) prestigious schools. To graduate from such institutions lacking such basic character assessment, well not thinking they are going to make great choices in the future.
One does not need any Ivy League education to know Fauci is a supreme narcissist who was instrumental in pushing massively destructive mitigation measures. To think otherwise shows a profound ignorance.
As you say, the amount of “Germans/npcs/sheep” that are helpful to society is weird, but that’s what SO disturbing. I’m not a doctor, so I do occasionally need to see one, but my level of confidence in the entire medical profession is extremely low to say the least, as an example.
The other frustrating part is how those highly educated and credentialed “German’s” so willing turned Nazi at the mention of a virus.
If it were just the landscaper that was freaking out about a virus, I’d cut the grass myself. But when years of proven methods, definitions and basic, really, really recent history gets forgotten or twisted out of any recognizable form by the very class of people steeped in this knowledge, well, that’s a different ball of wax entirely.
That’s what’s been so surprising: how fear and propaganda over rode decades of excellent educations.
Successful societies are based on trust. Trust is built over long periods of time, but pissed down the toilet in seconds. The damage done/propagated/defended by the elites will take decades to fully see but it’s coming and in the mean time I hold nothing but contempt for them. Not for those still driving in there cars alone in a mask—I feel really sorry for those people.