If your ideas are good, you don't need coercion or censorship or force to sell them, they just sell themselves. It's quite simple. You don't need to lie to people, you don't need to quash other viewpoints. When you tell someone to not run into traffic on a highway, they listen. The idea and suggestion is a clear winner. I don't need to silence some other clown telling you that cars crashing into you won't hurt you.
Lastly, I don't know how to comprehend any of this anymore. Maybe it's because so many have lost any type of religion or spiritual guidance. I look around and see so much chaos, it's mind-boggling. I just do not understand.
The whole "most people are good", I don't know about that. Prove it to me, because I don't see it. I see evil and selfishness everywhere.
I might be an asshole at times, but that isn't a reflection of my values. If anything, my asshole-ness comes because of all the evil I see. At times, I wish I was a NPC, ignorance is bliss must be an amazing stress-free way to live life. :/
Right there with you Jerky Boy. Sometimes I long for the happier days of having my head up my ass. But alas, I can’t unsee what I’ve witnessed in the last five years and that youthful notion of “greatest country ever” is so far in my rear view mirror I can no longer see it.
A couple more notes here.
If your ideas are good, you don't need coercion or censorship or force to sell them, they just sell themselves. It's quite simple. You don't need to lie to people, you don't need to quash other viewpoints. When you tell someone to not run into traffic on a highway, they listen. The idea and suggestion is a clear winner. I don't need to silence some other clown telling you that cars crashing into you won't hurt you.
Lastly, I don't know how to comprehend any of this anymore. Maybe it's because so many have lost any type of religion or spiritual guidance. I look around and see so much chaos, it's mind-boggling. I just do not understand.
The whole "most people are good", I don't know about that. Prove it to me, because I don't see it. I see evil and selfishness everywhere.
I might be an asshole at times, but that isn't a reflection of my values. If anything, my asshole-ness comes because of all the evil I see. At times, I wish I was a NPC, ignorance is bliss must be an amazing stress-free way to live life. :/
Right there with you Jerky Boy. Sometimes I long for the happier days of having my head up my ass. But alas, I can’t unsee what I’ve witnessed in the last five years and that youthful notion of “greatest country ever” is so far in my rear view mirror I can no longer see it.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams