Sucks to be listening to an Elton John playlist in the shower and then a Tai Lopez commercial interrupts it.
The horrrrror!!! 😣😭
If hypothetically you were allowed...
Its one of two things:
- You'd feel grossly victimized by the feeling that you can't ever feel grossly victimized again.
(But I suppose that's the definition of a leech.)
- You'd be bored to death!
it can and it will,
I'm really glad you think so too!
bahaaa
ya! They might find a way. But then they'd have to re-do the thought experiment, and keep branching off into increasingly insufferable groups 😃
which feeds into your second bullet:
Seems like that's basically the long-term conclusion! Either you're by yourself, or with the few people who hellishly keep agreeing with you. Fucked up place to be, either way.
They need there to be a bunch of reasonable people holding it all together. So that they have something to leech off of. If you reduce it to just the leeches, it ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.
p.s. speaking of songs, I clicked on the songbay link in your profile, but it says 'artist unavailable'.
I coulda been listening to you in the shower!!!
rotfl! seems like the universe keeps finding ways to stop you from listening to some cool music! haha. It probably says that cos it's been a while. Mostly it's just some of my original lyrics I put on there, though. But do not despair just yet, I'm planning on doing some covers and uploading it here on steemit haha.
Just keep taking those showers XD
haha, the irony!
sweet, tytyt, I will watch/listen/read/etc when they're up!
I'm known to do it once or twice a week!
ya!! <3
things are so kind of decent now even WITH all the hierarchy and imbalances.. like running with weights on your ankles or something, shows how strong we are and what we can do
I think we mostly don't really even know what humanity is or is capable of, like just at the surface, what we can do when we're free to grow outside of these systems of preying on each other... mind-bending
Definitely! And sadly we may never know! The system, one must agree, is very well put in place, and I hate to sound conspiracy theorist but it is in some people's best interests to make sure those systems remain in place and they'll stop at nothing to make it so 😕
ya, it's BEAUTIFULLY put in place.. like if you look at it in an amoral sense, like the way a cheetah goes about hunting its prey, it's interesting and elaborate and magical.
And it can happen without any grand plan. Just people with various interests naturally understanding how they can collude with other sources of power and influence, and it evolves into what we have. So I don't even see it as conspiracy.
but the question is CAN they keep it like this forever
or is good/non-violence/cooperation/non-hierarchy a more powerful force?
My feeling is their brilliance is in how they juggle it and hold on, but that it's not a lasting thing.
Like they can play around with the parameters, but it's embedded into how everything works that it's too tedious and difficult to control other humans and long-term any scheme to do it falls apart.
In my first ever Steemit post I metaphored it to an orgasm, lol: https://steemit.com/anarchism/@full-measure/when-we-stop-being-violent-the-illuminati-will-jizz
I feel like there can quickly be a tipping point. As resources keep getting cheaper and more abundant, there's less to fight over and less people who feel dependent on the current systems.
exactly.
Again, true.
Right. And obviously nothing lasts forever, so inevitably they're going to have to let up sometimes; but I'm thinkng it's going to be a very long time indeed.
but are they really? I feel like its one of their most fundamental strategy to make sure this never really happens.
probably, but it's like a rising tide.. like playing wack-a-mole but it keeps getting faster and faster.
like first we have an axel and a pulley and a wheel and the basic gadgets, and as technology gets better (plus we get more civilized and smarter), things keep getting cheaper and more abundant. The natural growth pattern, I think, is like exponential growth. Countering that, they interfere in the economy to slow things down, and thru taxes and inflation and rules that favor large corporations and people who are close to power, they can consolidate as much as they can into as few hands as possible.
but I think it becomes an increasingly difficult game as time passes and technology keeps growing and we get better and better at making resources more cheaply.. eventually kinda close to free when you think of 3D printing and AI that could basically manage a garden for you and drones that would be able to deliver things at little cost.. like it keeps being harder and harder to hold the average person back
I think it's like.. the decentralized force is too strong lol.
they could do a lot of damage, but if it's nukes or something, then they might die too, and having a world of ruin to rule over isn't that appealing. And if it's smaller amount of damage, we keep going and repair. 😎🧐