When environmentalist say we need fewer people, they always assume that they--of course--would be included in the group that gets to keep on living when the rest are euthanized or however they envision accomplishing their population reduction.
P.S. Has Paul Ehrlich EVER been right?
Where in the land of rapture did you ever get that opinion. When nature or our obsession with radioactive boomy things performs the great culling, it will be pretty much random. Depending on the process, I plan on adding myself to the dead manually. So enough with the environmentalist Strawmen, this is not Fox or Breitbart news. That rush of gamma rays, heat pulse, and yummy radioactive debris does not pause to go over the head of liberals or whatever group it is that you hate.
Now maybe if it a starvation scenario, it will be a little more selective, but at present the shakers and movers who will have us kill each other off at their direction are not liberal environmentalists, so that would be a whole different group that just might survive. But when 95 out of every hundred people kick off for whatever reason, there isn't enough wiggle room for any one person's survival.
Oh shut the fuck up you useless cunt. I'm an atheist and well, you're not winning any friends or making your point any more clear by belittling people.
U mad bro? People who are purposely stupid deserve all the belittlement they get. Don't like it? Here's a quarter - buy a sense of humor.
The coal industry doesn't give a fuck about whatever Jesus bullshit you're trying to bring up here.
Coming from a family that had a lot of coal miners, I can assure you that the coal industry doesn't give a fuck about the people who work for them, either. Would you like me to send you some of that yummy orange water that fills a lot of our rivers?
They care about profit.
And that's good. Really. I care about profit too.
Not whatever strawman bullshit you're coming up with.
Here is a hint, try being less of a twat.
Life is long and hard, bro. It's even harder when you lack a sense of humor. And even if you don't find it funny, you should be able to recognize it as such.
So don't be mad bro, it raises your blood pressure and puts stress hormones in your bloodstream. Peace out.
Besides, I though that Texas was going to secede from the Union again.
We could only hope...;-)
Old favorite joke of mine. A delegate from Texas was holding court at a political convention and bragging about how big everything in Texas was. Eventually the delegate from Alaska tired of listening to this and told him he should shut up or Alaska would cut itself in half and Texas would only be the third biggest state.
Easily solved with a cheap multi vitamin... and less greed.
Be careful though. Hellary and O'Blama have been caught putting the chemtrail poisons into vitamins. We have the videos from the studio where the fake moon landings were filmed by Stanley Kubrick. Ever notice the new trend in gummy vitamins? That's right. Those chemtrail poisons need to be in a gelatin base.
The problem was that putting the poison in jet fuel just wasn't working fast enough.
What do you mean "start" burning coal. We already do.
Oopsies, "More coal" God went to a lot of work putting that coal in the ground 6000 years ago, so it would be apostasy for us not to use the gifts that he in his great love and wisdom, has bestowed upon his favorite creation.
If they still have the talent and facilities in Houston, leave them there.
Only if this results in the most economically effective outcome. If it makes economic or functional sense to have it elsewhere then move it where it needs to go. I that happens to be Houston that's fine but all reasonable options should be considered first. We definitely should not do what we did 50 years ago just because some well connected political leaders want to pander to their constituencies.
Houston is also in a geologically precarious position, so placing it there would be more of a political decision than a sound one.
Besides, I though that Texas was going to secede from the Union again.
If you want Houston back in the thick of space missions, start voting for a reduction in military budgets and a transfer of funding into the sciences.
Or, talk to the DOD about building a US Space Force facility in Houston.
Before we sink money into the modern day equivalent of the atomic airplane or SLAM, we might want to figure out what to do with all of the 20 some thousand miles per hour debris that will be orbiting earth when out intrepid space cadets start making things go kablooey (technical term) in earth orbit. When they inevitably do this,ARES (apparently NASA is recycling Initialisms) will show a fairly solid shell of areas to avoid. I've always said that our first war in space will be our last for possibly several hundred years, until the debris de-orbits. Then we can blow up more and start the process all over.
Or, Texas can fund it's own space program. If that sounds silly to you then consider that Texas has more people and money than many nations on the planet, and some of those nations smaller than Texas sent stuff into space.
Hold on there Sparky. This will involve state taxes, and all taxes and regulations are bad, amirite? Texas is happy to take taxpayer money at the federal level because a lot of it comes from out of state people, but the concept of using their own money is a real non-starter.
Really, although the space program can be a great source of inspiration, Texas actually just wants the money.
Seriously, is the ANYTHING bad that hasn't been threatened to happen from climate change? It's gone from funny to downright annoying to insulting now. How stupid do these people think we are? There obviously is a major agenda behind this. I'm just trying to figure out what their angle is. Just keeping the 'research' dollars flowing into the pocketbooks? These scare tactics are abhorrent.
The aganda here is not what many think. The agenda is to get you to stop paying attention because you are tired of hearing about it, so you'll demand we start burning coal. Peace out.
Linux users always boast of being able to configure their systems any way they want. Making it interface to Dropbox is just one more configuration issue.
You just need to make your Linux box look like a Windows box from the outside....
Yeah - Linux users. This is like the rookie mistake that we've been talking about. Linux, like all other OS' consists of all manner of abilities among the users from tools like me who are about 3/4's along the expertise level, to my wife, who is at "Grandma" level, but happy running Linux Mint.
So, in other words, Dropbox is run by retards who have no clue about proper software development.
It's a program that copies files from one location to another. If Dropbox can't get out of the way and let the OS worry about things like the file system and systemD, then there is something seriously wrong with them.
This is a classic case of Doing It Wrong®.
AC needs to be at +5.
This also smells a bit like a zealot is in charge.
Not me. Stay at home and play video games all you want. No need to worry, mates. I'll take care of all the women out there who want to complicate your lives and take away your video games reproducing and making babies.
All that said I'm optimistic that we as humanity are slowly pulling back from that neurosis and into more sanity.
It is a self correcting problem. As the women who are strong and independent and don't need a man in their life and the men who just gave up age out of the population with almost no or no reproduction, people with a different mindset will slowly restore sanity. The trick is going to be avoiding true idiocracy or some sort of return to a time where women lose a lot of the rights they've worked to get before they became the supposedly strong, yet fragile, nurturing, yet angry, delicate flowers that passes for modern feminism.
But a couple of months ago I was testing a setup with a large TV screen and I played the latest God of War gameplay from youtube, and it was spectacular. Not necessarily to play but to watch, I understood better for the first time in what predicament those young men are, life sucks women are impossible to deal with, job prospects are poor, you don't feel like exercising or even walking much and then you come home and turn on your TV in a dark room and for a few hours you're a god. No wonder they prefer to escape from the difficulties of real life.
Your experiences are rather different than mine. Unless of course, I misinterpret loving caring concern as anger. 8^)
Rather they are saying it's harmful for the society and harmful for them.
Of couse it is harmful for them. A lot of women who followed the mantra of go to college, get a career, have a lot of sex with a lot of guys, then at 40 marry that 6 foot 4 hunk millionaire and immediately start having those menopausal babies.
That's the bizzare myth that so many women have been sold - that they can have it all, including the "best" men at a relatively ripe age.
As opposed to a workable situation. My wife had decided that if we didn't have a child by the time she was 25, she was going to have a tubal ligation. Then after the kid was a year old, she took part time work. Then after he was in preschool, she started her professional career.
Have a child during your most fertile years when the child stands the best chance of being healthy.
Start your professional career afterwards.
None of the egg freezing and fertility treatments women pursuing today's "smart path."
It surely works better. Not that I'de tell a woman - that would be mansplaining, and could get me in trouble
Per CG Jung, if you would take his word, "Deviation from the truth of the blood begets neurotic restlessness ⦠Restlessness begets meaninglessness, and the lack of meaning in life is a soul sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not yet begun to comprehend."
I've experienced period of that in my life, and from my perspective there is truth to that.
Maybe, but he was kind of Jung at the time.
Try listening to Harry Nilsson's Lime in the Coconut song as you read the rest of my post. Cue Harry Niisson's Lime in the coconut song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But just as Porn is a symptom, and not the proximate cause of this checking out, we need to look at exactly why these young men are avoiding women. We have to also examine why the number of these men is increasing.
It beggars belief to think that men in increasing numbers just woke up one day and decided "I'm going to ignore millions of years of evolution, and not reproduce. I'm going to not even try, and I'm going to avoid interactions with the humans I would normally be trying to reproduce with."
The issue is, just like Pr0n, video games are not the cause of young males checking out of so called normal society, they are a symptom. Something has caused them to check out. All video games could be eliminated.If they were, men would just find something else to occupy their time with. So rather than blame men again for their situation, it might be better to be thankful that they've found a relatively innocuous alternative. Males have a particular way of analyzing situations, and tend to risk/reward thinking. We know what the risks are. What are the rewards of interacting with the opposite sex as compared to playing video games? Considering the outcome of most marriages, is there great reward in getting divorced for not particular reason? Splitting all of the resources? Watching your children grow up in freeze frame mode while paying for them? Or is it video games which might not be as fulfilling, but overall the benefits outweigh the risks. Then there is a growing problem with the pair bonding becoming a mine field, one wrong move and you have raped her - did she have even one drink? She cannot give consent. That my friend, is exactly rape. Consent itself isn't consent any more - it must be enthusiastic consent on her part. So to hell with it - I don't want to end up broke or in jail.
This is not a problem that the male of the species can fix, inless we can inculcate males with a stronger desire for self destruction at home in peace as well as in w
> men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children,...
Jordan Peterson calls (*) this behavior MGTOW Men Go Their Own Way.
It is not just him saying that.
There are certain men who refuse to work with women because anytime a woman claims she was harassed the man is automatically presumed guilty until proven innocent.
As I was told in no uncertain terms by the college sexual harassment counselor, "Anything a woman says is sexual harassment is by definition sexual harassment." This didn't keep me from working with women - oddly enough, the lady scientists and engineers I worked with were almost all friends. But I knew to keep my mouth shut until I knew I could trust them. side note: some of the worst victims of sexual based harassment are these professional ladies - it just comes from other women, so they tend to make work friendships with men.
Can you blame them that some men just go "Fuck it. I don't need this drama."
I don't blame them at all. That is a reasoned choice in a world where almost anything can be construed as harassment. It is simply not worth the risk. There is no reward, and the inherent risk in a minor disagreement is pretty impressive https://www.buzzfeednews.com/a... The woman and man who were fired might seem to indicate otherwise, but a fair segment of people are standing up for her misandry, although not much about the guy who was canned. So you have a case where the simple act of disagreement can get you canned or at least have to put up with stupid drama. So yeah - fuck it. It is one of those mysteries of modern life, where one slip or even bad interpretation of a statement can land you in hot water based on the sex of someone who reads it, yet if you practice the passive art of avoidance, that pisses them off too.
(*) For the record Jordan admits he was dismissive of calling MGOTW as "pathetic weasels." It takes a man with integrityto admit he was wrong. Good that he owned up to that epithet.
That statement/apology was one of the strangest acts of an interesting man's career. But I accept it. Which is in bright contrast to the normal trial by social media, where simple statements must be met by firing.
I would love to ask him what aspect of passive avoidance of a low reward, high risk situation caused him to make his initial statement.
For fucks sake. These are pretty common criteria for any kind of addiction, be it substance abuse, gambling, extreme sports, and whatever. Why should activities like playing video games get a free pass?
Well, here's the issue. These things start out using extreme examples. Examples that almost no one is an example of. But there is alawys the "Expansion card deck" in there. to wit:
For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months.
So tell me about the family and social part. If some guy's SO is pissed off because he spends a few evenings a week playing games and defines that as significant impairment, is the SO not right? That listing of impairments is just ripe for the expansion pack.
Example: a single guy spends every night playing his favorite game. He gets home from work, grabs dinner, and settles in for the evening. He is obviously not diong what society expects him to do, which is pair bond and reproduce to create a new generation of taxpayers. But he's happy doing what he is doing, not interested in pair bonding or reproduction, and not harming anyone at all, not even himself.
Tell us his crime.
This would be classed by many as gaming addiction. But it is a funny sort of addiction. The addict can look perfectly normal, be healthy by all the metrics, but presumably is harming himself.
I've lived long enough to look at demographics, and to be really skeptical of such shaming and judging tactics. Always ask the question - Who does it benefit? Who does it harm? If a person allows their health to deteriorate, skip personal hygiene and eat only Cheetos, they have a problem, but it isn't the game that is causing it.
And while we're at it, the WHO should also take a very close look at social media addiction.
That is a whole different demographic. They would claim they are just having fun.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Perhaps then, they have a bigger axe to grind with pronhub.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
I just prefer to think about it as a really pleasant and asymptotically accurate method for improving the race, and I am saying as that as someone who will likely not have children.
I've never been able to understand exactly why some of these folks are up in arms about gamers and their lifestyle. These men are doing no harm, and the people who hate on them would never mate with them. The only possible disadvantage these groups would have is that these gamma males don't lust after them or show interest. But they are leaving those people alone and not bothering or harassing them. So rather than go on about video game addiction, they should consider themselves as having largely solved one of their biggest problems, and that a large and growing segment of men are choosing to do other things rather than chase and bother them, and these are men they are not interested in anyhow.
It is in the interest of every business model to get more customers, and to get current customers to use the company's products more frequently.
It is in the interest of society to regulate business, through government interference, when it is determined the business promotion is to the detriment of the current societal belief set; but damn, everything's not a disease.
Gaming Disorder.?.? Just, wow. It's not your fault, you poor addict.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Dude, look out - there's a Russian hiding under your bed!
One in my bed too.
Are you *really* so ignorant as to believe *everyone* who is against forced-vax is a Russian bot?
Now where did you get the idea I thought that? What I do think is that anyone who is against vaxxing is a huge pile of shit that should be separated from society along with their disease carrying children so that you don't inflict your diseases on the rest of us.
Pay attention to the story here, it is about how Russian trolls have used anti-vaxxing to sow discontent.
Greens, hippies, small-c conservatives, libertarians, intellectuals, anarchists, and some religious faithful are all natural opponents of authoritarian quackery.
Make no mistake, I do not have a fuck to give about you living or not living. But purposely using your children as a disease vector sways my opinion that if your decision to force your children to be a disease vector, that any child or adult that is killed by your irresponsibility will cause you to be convicted of first class murder and punished according to the capital crime statutes of your country. You have your convictions, so you cannot disagree without displaying sociopathy.
Those children you are responsible for killing didn't get the chance to make any decision.
Have you considered refusing to use any medication at all? Any and all medication has side effects, some times fatal. You logic would insist that you not take any corrective action. People die some times during or after surgery, you must avoid any and all medicaments and surgical procedures.
But of course you don't. You have based your acceptance of possibly killing your children and other people on the "research of a man who was found to have been working in concert with a lawyer to take advantage of sympathies of juries to unfortunate families and make a real payday of the manipulation.
You have further based your anti-vaccine fantasy on the work of a woman who's qualifications for vaccine research consists of exposing her breasts, vagina, buttocks and anus to photographers to make erotic/pornographic images used as a masturbatory aid for mostly men. No judgement here on what she has done, just that it doesn't qualify you for anything else than doing porn shoots, maybe a little celebrity promotion.
When your scream your appeal to your ersatz religion - "but but but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!" - only credulous middle-brow bumpkins are moved.
Now there is a paragraph! You have many imaginary arguments with people? The cool part of that is you always win with those. Not so often in real life
Anyone with real understanding of science, statistics, and/or history can see you are disingenuously sweeping risks under the table, while exaggerating the benefits of widespread coerced compliance.
Hello? You are now challenged to present your evidence that science, statistics and history show that vaccinations kill more children than avoiding vaccinations. We take a risk every time that we take a medicament. We take a risk every time we don't take one. There is a very good reason that vaccine research was undertaken. Dead and paralyzed children.
Looking forward to your dissertation, all of the research I've seen shows that vaccines have saved millions from death, paralysis, and disfigurement.
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When environmentalist say we need fewer people, they always assume that they--of course--would be included in the group that gets to keep on living when the rest are euthanized or however they envision accomplishing their population reduction.
P.S. Has Paul Ehrlich EVER been right?
Where in the land of rapture did you ever get that opinion. When nature or our obsession with radioactive boomy things performs the great culling, it will be pretty much random. Depending on the process, I plan on adding myself to the dead manually. So enough with the environmentalist Strawmen, this is not Fox or Breitbart news. That rush of gamma rays, heat pulse, and yummy radioactive debris does not pause to go over the head of liberals or whatever group it is that you hate.
Now maybe if it a starvation scenario, it will be a little more selective, but at present the shakers and movers who will have us kill each other off at their direction are not liberal environmentalists, so that would be a whole different group that just might survive. But when 95 out of every hundred people kick off for whatever reason, there isn't enough wiggle room for any one person's survival.
Oh shut the fuck up you useless cunt. I'm an atheist and well, you're not winning any friends or making your point any more clear by belittling people.
U mad bro? People who are purposely stupid deserve all the belittlement they get. Don't like it? Here's a quarter - buy a sense of humor.
The coal industry doesn't give a fuck about whatever Jesus bullshit you're trying to bring up here.
Coming from a family that had a lot of coal miners, I can assure you that the coal industry doesn't give a fuck about the people who work for them, either. Would you like me to send you some of that yummy orange water that fills a lot of our rivers?
They care about profit.
And that's good. Really. I care about profit too.
Not whatever strawman bullshit you're coming up with.
Here is a hint, try being less of a twat.
Life is long and hard, bro. It's even harder when you lack a sense of humor. And even if you don't find it funny, you should be able to recognize it as such.
So don't be mad bro, it raises your blood pressure and puts stress hormones in your bloodstream. Peace out.
Besides, I though that Texas was going to secede from the Union again.
We could only hope... ;-)
Old favorite joke of mine. A delegate from Texas was holding court at a political convention and bragging about how big everything in Texas was. Eventually the delegate from Alaska tired of listening to this and told him he should shut up or Alaska would cut itself in half and Texas would only be the third biggest state.
HA! Burnnnnn!
Easily solved with a cheap multi vitamin... and less greed.
Be careful though. Hellary and O'Blama have been caught putting the chemtrail poisons into vitamins. We have the videos from the studio where the fake moon landings were filmed by Stanley Kubrick. Ever notice the new trend in gummy vitamins? That's right. Those chemtrail poisons need to be in a gelatin base.
The problem was that putting the poison in jet fuel just wasn't working fast enough.
Wake UP America!!!!
What do you mean "start" burning coal. We already do.
Oopsies, "More coal" God went to a lot of work putting that coal in the ground 6000 years ago, so it would be apostasy for us not to use the gifts that he in his great love and wisdom, has bestowed upon his favorite creation.
If they still have the talent and facilities in Houston, leave them there.
Only if this results in the most economically effective outcome. If it makes economic or functional sense to have it elsewhere then move it where it needs to go. I that happens to be Houston that's fine but all reasonable options should be considered first. We definitely should not do what we did 50 years ago just because some well connected political leaders want to pander to their constituencies.
Houston is also in a geologically precarious position, so placing it there would be more of a political decision than a sound one.
Besides, I though that Texas was going to secede from the Union again.
If you want Houston back in the thick of space missions, start voting for a reduction in military budgets and a transfer of funding into the sciences.
Or, talk to the DOD about building a US Space Force facility in Houston.
Before we sink money into the modern day equivalent of the atomic airplane or SLAM, we might want to figure out what to do with all of the 20 some thousand miles per hour debris that will be orbiting earth when out intrepid space cadets start making things go kablooey (technical term) in earth orbit. When they inevitably do this,ARES (apparently NASA is recycling Initialisms) will show a fairly solid shell of areas to avoid. I've always said that our first war in space will be our last for possibly several hundred years, until the debris de-orbits. Then we can blow up more and start the process all over.
Or, Texas can fund it's own space program. If that sounds silly to you then consider that Texas has more people and money than many nations on the planet, and some of those nations smaller than Texas sent stuff into space.
Hold on there Sparky. This will involve state taxes, and all taxes and regulations are bad, amirite? Texas is happy to take taxpayer money at the federal level because a lot of it comes from out of state people, but the concept of using their own money is a real non-starter.
Really, although the space program can be a great source of inspiration, Texas actually just wants the money.
Where's Thanos when you need him ?
Considering some of the scenarios, that might be one of the more merciful ones.
Seriously, is the ANYTHING bad that hasn't been threatened to happen from climate change? It's gone from funny to downright annoying to insulting now. How stupid do these people think we are? There obviously is a major agenda behind this. I'm just trying to figure out what their angle is. Just keeping the 'research' dollars flowing into the pocketbooks? These scare tactics are abhorrent.
The aganda here is not what many think. The agenda is to get you to stop paying attention because you are tired of hearing about it, so you'll demand we start burning coal. Peace out.
There are simply too damn many people on earth.
Truth isn't Truth, Truth isn't truth, Truth isn't truth........
Repeat until the liberal media and Crooked Hillary disappear in a puff of smoke.
Linux users always boast of being able to configure their systems any way they want. Making it interface to Dropbox is just one more configuration issue.
You just need to make your Linux box look like a Windows box from the outside....
Yeah - Linux users. This is like the rookie mistake that we've been talking about. Linux, like all other OS' consists of all manner of abilities among the users from tools like me who are about 3/4's along the expertise level, to my wife, who is at "Grandma" level, but happy running Linux Mint.
So, in other words, Dropbox is run by retards who have no clue about proper software development.
It's a program that copies files from one location to another. If Dropbox can't get out of the way and let the OS worry about things like the file system and systemD, then there is something seriously wrong with them.
This is a classic case of Doing It Wrong®.
AC needs to be at +5.
This also smells a bit like a zealot is in charge.
Not me. Stay at home and play video games all you want. No need to worry, mates. I'll take care of all the women out there who want to complicate your lives and take away your video games reproducing and making babies.
A legend in your own mind aren't ya?
You're definitely not sowing discontent, Boris. No sir.
And you don't seem the least bit unhinged. You're certainly not talking like a wingnut religious fundamentalist, that's for sure!
I have no hinges to un!
All that said I'm optimistic that we as humanity are slowly pulling back from that neurosis and into more sanity.
It is a self correcting problem. As the women who are strong and independent and don't need a man in their life and the men who just gave up age out of the population with almost no or no reproduction, people with a different mindset will slowly restore sanity. The trick is going to be avoiding true idiocracy or some sort of return to a time where women lose a lot of the rights they've worked to get before they became the supposedly strong, yet fragile, nurturing, yet angry, delicate flowers that passes for modern feminism.
But a couple of months ago I was testing a setup with a large TV screen and I played the latest God of War gameplay from youtube, and it was spectacular. Not necessarily to play but to watch, I understood better for the first time in what predicament those young men are, life sucks women are impossible to deal with, job prospects are poor, you don't feel like exercising or even walking much and then you come home and turn on your TV in a dark room and for a few hours you're a god. No wonder they prefer to escape from the difficulties of real life.
Well said.
That'd be anyone that is hoping to retire. It's time to give back.
Perhaps they need a reason to want to participate in society then.
Can they at least have sugar and bread so they can make alcohol? O.o you know they die without it.
This is good, allow them their drink.
Angry is not the right word.
Your experiences are rather different than mine. Unless of course, I misinterpret loving caring concern as anger. 8^)
Rather they are saying it's harmful for the society and harmful for them.
Of couse it is harmful for them. A lot of women who followed the mantra of go to college, get a career, have a lot of sex with a lot of guys, then at 40 marry that 6 foot 4 hunk millionaire and immediately start having those menopausal babies.
That's the bizzare myth that so many women have been sold - that they can have it all, including the "best" men at a relatively ripe age.
As opposed to a workable situation. My wife had decided that if we didn't have a child by the time she was 25, she was going to have a tubal ligation. Then after the kid was a year old, she took part time work. Then after he was in preschool, she started her professional career.
Have a child during your most fertile years when the child stands the best chance of being healthy.
Start your professional career afterwards.
None of the egg freezing and fertility treatments women pursuing today's "smart path."
It surely works better. Not that I'de tell a woman - that would be mansplaining, and could get me in trouble Per CG Jung, if you would take his word, "Deviation from the truth of the blood begets neurotic restlessness ⦠Restlessness begets meaninglessness, and the lack of meaning in life is a soul sickness whose full extent and full import our age has not yet begun to comprehend."
I've experienced period of that in my life, and from my perspective there is truth to that.
Maybe, but he was kind of Jung at the time.
Try listening to Harry Nilsson's Lime in the Coconut song as you read the rest of my post. Cue Harry Niisson's Lime in the coconut song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But just as Porn is a symptom, and not the proximate cause of this checking out, we need to look at exactly why these young men are avoiding women. We have to also examine why the number of these men is increasing.
It beggars belief to think that men in increasing numbers just woke up one day and decided "I'm going to ignore millions of years of evolution, and not reproduce. I'm going to not even try, and I'm going to avoid interactions with the humans I would normally be trying to reproduce with."
The issue is, just like Pr0n, video games are not the cause of young males checking out of so called normal society, they are a symptom. Something has caused them to check out. All video games could be eliminated.If they were, men would just find something else to occupy their time with. So rather than blame men again for their situation, it might be better to be thankful that they've found a relatively innocuous alternative. Males have a particular way of analyzing situations, and tend to risk/reward thinking. We know what the risks are. What are the rewards of interacting with the opposite sex as compared to playing video games? Considering the outcome of most marriages, is there great reward in getting divorced for not particular reason? Splitting all of the resources? Watching your children grow up in freeze frame mode while paying for them? Or is it video games which might not be as fulfilling, but overall the benefits outweigh the risks. Then there is a growing problem with the pair bonding becoming a mine field, one wrong move and you have raped her - did she have even one drink? She cannot give consent. That my friend, is exactly rape. Consent itself isn't consent any more - it must be enthusiastic consent on her part. So to hell with it - I don't want to end up broke or in jail.
This is not a problem that the male of the species can fix, inless we can inculcate males with a stronger desire for self destruction at home in peace as well as in w
> men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, ...
Jordan Peterson calls (*) this behavior MGTOW Men Go Their Own Way.
It is not just him saying that.
There are certain men who refuse to work with women because anytime a woman claims she was harassed the man is automatically presumed guilty until proven innocent.
As I was told in no uncertain terms by the college sexual harassment counselor, "Anything a woman says is sexual harassment is by definition sexual harassment." This didn't keep me from working with women - oddly enough, the lady scientists and engineers I worked with were almost all friends. But I knew to keep my mouth shut until I knew I could trust them. side note: some of the worst victims of sexual based harassment are these professional ladies - it just comes from other women, so they tend to make work friendships with men.
Can you blame them that some men just go "Fuck it. I don't need this drama."
I don't blame them at all. That is a reasoned choice in a world where almost anything can be construed as harassment. It is simply not worth the risk. There is no reward, and the inherent risk in a minor disagreement is pretty impressive https://www.buzzfeednews.com/a... The woman and man who were fired might seem to indicate otherwise, but a fair segment of people are standing up for her misandry, although not much about the guy who was canned. So you have a case where the simple act of disagreement can get you canned or at least have to put up with stupid drama. So yeah - fuck it. It is one of those mysteries of modern life, where one slip or even bad interpretation of a statement can land you in hot water based on the sex of someone who reads it, yet if you practice the passive art of avoidance, that pisses them off too.
(*) For the record Jordan admits he was dismissive of calling MGOTW as "pathetic weasels." It takes a man with integrityto admit he was wrong. Good that he owned up to that epithet.
That statement/apology was one of the strangest acts of an interesting man's career. But I accept it. Which is in bright contrast to the normal trial by social media, where simple statements must be met by firing.
I would love to ask him what aspect of passive avoidance of a low reward, high risk situation caused him to make his initial statement.
For fucks sake. These are pretty common criteria for any kind of addiction, be it substance abuse, gambling, extreme sports, and whatever. Why should activities like playing video games get a free pass?
Well, here's the issue. These things start out using extreme examples. Examples that almost no one is an example of. But there is alawys the "Expansion card deck" in there. to wit:
For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months.
So tell me about the family and social part. If some guy's SO is pissed off because he spends a few evenings a week playing games and defines that as significant impairment, is the SO not right? That listing of impairments is just ripe for the expansion pack.
Example: a single guy spends every night playing his favorite game. He gets home from work, grabs dinner, and settles in for the evening. He is obviously not diong what society expects him to do, which is pair bond and reproduce to create a new generation of taxpayers. But he's happy doing what he is doing, not interested in pair bonding or reproduction, and not harming anyone at all, not even himself.
Tell us his crime.
This would be classed by many as gaming addiction. But it is a funny sort of addiction. The addict can look perfectly normal, be healthy by all the metrics, but presumably is harming himself.
I've lived long enough to look at demographics, and to be really skeptical of such shaming and judging tactics. Always ask the question - Who does it benefit? Who does it harm? If a person allows their health to deteriorate, skip personal hygiene and eat only Cheetos, they have a problem, but it isn't the game that is causing it.
And while we're at it, the WHO should also take a very close look at social media addiction.
That is a whole different demographic. They would claim they are just having fun.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Perhaps then, they have a bigger axe to grind with pronhub.
Porn is a symptom, not a cause.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
I just prefer to think about it as a really pleasant and asymptotically accurate method for improving the race, and I am saying as that as someone who will likely not have children.
I've never been able to understand exactly why some of these folks are up in arms about gamers and their lifestyle. These men are doing no harm, and the people who hate on them would never mate with them. The only possible disadvantage these groups would have is that these gamma males don't lust after them or show interest. But they are leaving those people alone and not bothering or harassing them. So rather than go on about video game addiction, they should consider themselves as having largely solved one of their biggest problems, and that a large and growing segment of men are choosing to do other things rather than chase and bother them, and these are men they are not interested in anyhow.
It is in the interest of every business model to get more customers, and to get current customers to use the company's products more frequently.
It is in the interest of society to regulate business, through government interference, when it is determined the business promotion is to the detriment of the current societal belief set; but damn, everything's not a disease.
Gaming Disorder.?.? Just, wow. It's not your fault, you poor addict.
There are certain groups that are really angry that young men are choosing to enjoy video games rather than go out in the world, get married, have children, and participate in society in the way they demand.
Dude, look out - there's a Russian hiding under your bed!
One in my bed too.
Are you *really* so ignorant as to believe *everyone* who is against forced-vax is a Russian bot?
Now where did you get the idea I thought that? What I do think is that anyone who is against vaxxing is a huge pile of shit that should be separated from society along with their disease carrying children so that you don't inflict your diseases on the rest of us.
Pay attention to the story here, it is about how Russian trolls have used anti-vaxxing to sow discontent.
Greens, hippies, small-c conservatives, libertarians, intellectuals, anarchists, and some religious faithful are all natural opponents of authoritarian quackery.
Make no mistake, I do not have a fuck to give about you living or not living. But purposely using your children as a disease vector sways my opinion that if your decision to force your children to be a disease vector, that any child or adult that is killed by your irresponsibility will cause you to be convicted of first class murder and punished according to the capital crime statutes of your country. You have your convictions, so you cannot disagree without displaying sociopathy.
Those children you are responsible for killing didn't get the chance to make any decision.
Have you considered refusing to use any medication at all? Any and all medication has side effects, some times fatal. You logic would insist that you not take any corrective action. People die some times during or after surgery, you must avoid any and all medicaments and surgical procedures.
But of course you don't. You have based your acceptance of possibly killing your children and other people on the "research of a man who was found to have been working in concert with a lawyer to take advantage of sympathies of juries to unfortunate families and make a real payday of the manipulation.
You have further based your anti-vaccine fantasy on the work of a woman who's qualifications for vaccine research consists of exposing her breasts, vagina, buttocks and anus to photographers to make erotic/pornographic images used as a masturbatory aid for mostly men. No judgement here on what she has done, just that it doesn't qualify you for anything else than doing porn shoots, maybe a little celebrity promotion.
When your scream your appeal to your ersatz religion - "but but but muh SCIENCE(tm)!!!!!!!!!11!!!1!!!" - only credulous middle-brow bumpkins are moved.
Now there is a paragraph! You have many imaginary arguments with people? The cool part of that is you always win with those. Not so often in real life
Anyone with real understanding of science, statistics, and/or history can see you are disingenuously sweeping risks under the table, while exaggerating the benefits of widespread coerced compliance.
Hello? You are now challenged to present your evidence that science, statistics and history show that vaccinations kill more children than avoiding vaccinations. We take a risk every time that we take a medicament. We take a risk every time we don't take one. There is a very good reason that vaccine research was undertaken. Dead and paralyzed children.
Looking forward to your dissertation, all of the research I've seen shows that vaccines have saved millions from death, paralysis, and disfigurement.