they are about expressing and releasing violent and sexual energies that have no other outlet. much of violent and sexual impulses cannot be released in socially acceptable ways. so on some basic level, this is why violent and sexual media are so successful: they fill a need
it has always been my assertion that violent and sexual media doesn't CREATE inappropriate violent and sexual real life behavior, but instead serves as a form of releasing what is already there. in other words, those who oppose violent and sexual media are working on an inaccurate model of human psychology: we are not empty vessels that are corrupted. we are vessels already, naturally, innately, full of violent and sexual impulses. and we need a way to release them harmlessly, lest they be released harmfully. so violent and sexual media DECREASE real world inappropriate violence and sexxual behavior in my view
of course, videogames don't HAVE to be violent or sexual
but what i am saying, psychologically, is that the most successful videogames will always be violent or sexual. that's the most important need they fill
1. get a babysitter. people walk out windows, gouge out their eyeballs, and pick up knives and start swinging when on strong hallucinogens. people have panic attacks and think they are dying. you are highly suggestible, so you can be warded away from a bad trip by a good guide. so you need a sober responsible person who can keep you safe. maybe return the favor. but don't trip alone, and don't trip in groups, and don't trip with irresponsible people as your backup
i'm not engaging in fear and hysteria. you need a sober understanding of what you are playing with here. go ahead and trip, but understand that these hallucinogens are very powerful. if you have a flashback a few days later while driving, and you are aware of what is going on, you can deescalate the situation. if you don't know about flashbacks, you can freak out and kill yourself or others. knolwedge is power. be educated
because what is the victim of irresponsible drug use? legality is. lsd and magic mushrooms will be legalized someday, but that day will be very far away if irresponsible idiots keep tripping without backups and walk out windows or stab innocent passerbys
are the comments by people with a grudge to settle against the police (probably for their own bad behavior they won't own up to) try to use cases like this as a proxy for their grudge: the hostage taker is an innocent lamb whose actions are perfectly understandable, caused by the police, and the police are vicious thugs out to shoot random people any chance they get
do you understand, moron, that you have been paying for freeloaders who avoid their bills, for decades? hospitals in the usa are always on the verge of bankruptcy, always bailed out. with your tax dollars. covering for the uninsured who avoid their bills because they can't afford them
someone who gets their hospital bill, and avoids it, as millions of young and poor do every year. then the govt, your tax dollars, has to bail out the hospital
WE ALREADY PAY FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
FOR DECADES
morons like you are scared of reagan era stereotypes, like the welfare queen, while your intractable stubbornness to pay for healthcare INTELLIGENTLY enables millions of freeloaders every year!
blindness, stupidity, propagandized dimwitted sheep baying against their own self-interests while some healthcare exec makes a mint off your back
"before claiming i am ignorant you should, at minimum, cite at least one thing i've claimed that is inaccurate"
that american healthcare is good or inexpensive. that is an inaccurate belief on your part. says who? says REALITY, not me: why don't you read the 3 fucking links i posted above, it's really easy to see
"You plan on making me suffer further on account of someone else. That's because you're evil."
currently, we do not turn people away when they show up with a broken arm at the hospital. that would be evil, right?
if they are young or poor, and they can't afford the bill, they avoid it. then the hospital is in danger of going bankrupt. so the government, your tax dollars, bails out the hospital
THIS HAS BEEN THE WAY IT WORKS FOR DECADES
paying for everyone's healthcare is ALREADY SOMETHING YOU DO. i'm not asking you or forcing you to do something you haven't done already for decades. WE ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. FOR DECADES. all i am asking is you pay for IT IN A MORE INTELLIGENT WAY
additionally, with insurance for everyone THE FREELOADERS AS THEY CURRENTLY EXIST WHO AVOID THEIR BILLS cannot exist, because they HAVE to have insurance. currently, people like you, who will not let intelligent universal healthcare happen, you are forcing ME to pay for people who don't pay their bills. therefore by YOUR DEFINITION OF EVIL, you are evil, right?
but i don't really think you're evil. you're just fucking stupid, because you don't see reality. a faux news propagandized sheep: corporate propaganda bought, paid for, spoonfed to your trusting, dimwitted mind, against your own self-interests
WAKE UP, moron
"You have simply insulted me, over and over."
yes, you have a right to complain about that, when you stop calling people evil, hypocrite
" If you can't afford it -- you don't get treated. End of story. Yes, if you have something fatal, then you will die. Tough. You have no right to rob the rest of us to prolong your life."
you're a social darwinist. the poor should hurry up and die already. that's what you believe in
i'm glad you're finally coming around to admitting to yourself what exactly you are: evil and immoral
"It's all very well and good for the Danish that you claim they are happy and pay less. Like I said - move there if you find it superior. It should be a pareto improvement for both of us: you get what you want, I get what I want (freedom from your bullshit)"
no, sorry, see: it's my country, and i love it. and i will not let faux news propagandized idiots ruin the country i love. so i'm going to fight for it, for what is right and what makes sense, against the unintelligent brainwashed morons of the world. and we're going to prevail. because we have reason, sense, and facts on our side
"I am not ultimately concerned with metrics or outcomes, I am concerned with principles and ethics"
what do i do? laugh at this sentence? like i said: unintelligent. brainwashed. your sentence makes no sense
if a country has inferior healthcare (yes, it's inferior, despite any anecdote you have), at higher prices, something is wrong. something is wrong ethically, and something is wrong in the principles. why do you continue to defend an inferior, more expensive system? not because you know anything superior, but because you're stubborn, and proud of your ignorance, that's all
those are the facts. argue all you want. fact: the usa gets inferior healthcare, and spends much more per capita. FACT, asshole. deal with it
where do they live longer and spend less? where they have universal healthcare. FACT, asshole. deal with it
so we are going to get to a superior financial, AND ETHICAL world, with better principles, in spite of your strideful ignorance. sorry, you lose. not enough corporate propaganda to remove functional braincells in me, and many others. sorry
the danish live longer than us and pay less for healthcare
"You can move to Denmark if you want to. Why are you insistent on fucking up _here_ ?"
dude: WE are the ones who are fucked up, who are paying billions more for inferior healthcare. you have some weird idea of the usa being superior, when it is clearly inferior in the realm of healthcare
your problem with my words aren't really with me, but how the word "libertarian" has been coopted by free market fundamentalists, social darwinists, and other assorted assholes
libertarianism, as defined historically, and as defined in other parts of the world outside the usa, is a very respectable word
the problem is the word has been hijacked in the usa by certain scumbags, and has been corrupted. the problem is the scumbags calling themselves libertarian, when, in the traditional sense of the word, they most definitely are not
the problem is only growing. i regret to inform you the word "libertarian" has been defiled
shameful and disgusting, isn't it? how corporations trump individuals in this country, to the point of people paying more for healthcare, and dying earlier, for the sake of some company's bottom line
you believe the poor should die. because that's what will happen in your world
oh i know you won't come out and say that. and the idea probably repulses you
but what you don't understand is that the poor just dying is what will happen in the style of government you want. that means you are stupid, not evil. you are so stupid you don't understand what your beliefs actually result in
example: i'm broke, and i come into the hospital with a broken arm. do they say "do you have enough cash to pay for your broken arm?" if i say no, do the kick me out? no? if they treat me anyway, and send me a bill, and i avoid the bill because i can't afford it, then what? do i go to debtor's prison? finally, do we let the hospital go bankrupt because of all the people not paying their bills? no: the govt bails out the hospital
hey, asshole:
WE ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THE USA, FOR DECADES
people can't afford their bills, avoid them, and the govt continually bails out the hospitals from going bankrupt. PAID FOR WITH YOUR TAXES
we already have universal healthcare you dimwit!
now all i'm asking you to do IS STOP STICKING UP FOR FREELOADERS who avoid their bills, AND PAY FOR THE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN AN INTELLIGENT WAY, rather the extremely pigheaded and wasteful way we pay for it
that's not an american personality failure, that's a human personality failure
otherwise you are correct
all we can hope for is reason and intelligence triumphing over emotional hysterical low iq dimwits. the problem is, corporate money has noticed that they can directly influence the opinion of dimwits with fox news demagoguery, and sway opinion and therefore law to protect their cash cows
the crazy part is the dimwits will argue against their own interest: cheap better healthcare. because it's evil SOCIALISM! aaaah!
the premium americans pay for their expensive inferior healthcare goes into media campaigns that keep them with expensive inferior healthcare. the corporate execs keep getting paid, so everything is fine
hilarious and/ or tragic. either way, it is our downfall
meanwhile, evil socialist countries like denmark, uk: they live longer than us, and pay less on healthcare, and are just plain happier and less stressed
universal healthcare is just insurance, that's all it is. there is no one who can opt out of healthcare because if you break your arm, we're not going to let you walk around with your arm dangling, we're going to treat you. THAT'S what makes it mandatory: simple human morality. you're going to hold it against your fellow citizens that we want you to be healthy. it's your "choice" not to be treated? or is it your "choice" to be treated AND NOT PAY FOR IT, freeloader? the freeloaders are not the stereotypical welfare queen, the freeloaders are the young "libertarians" who break their arm, go to the hospital, and then avoid the bill because they can't afford it!
why are some americans so fucking deranged on the obvious benefits of universal healthcare, and how "choice" is MORE EXPENSIVE, the REAL freeloading, and less healthy? who don't people understand the obvious?
yes, the whole world is in a giant mexican standoff
where areas of the world are at peace, they are at standoff with other areas of the world. this isn't to say peace isn't impossible without land wars. conflict is inevitable, war is not. within a country, the police keep things from descending into physical violence, and the courts resolve conflicts verbally. this is as close as you get to peace on a global basis, or within and maybe even between a handful of nation blocs like ASEAN or the EU, should they congeal further and invest more common destiny in with their neighbors
as i hope they do: in the case of europe, a continent famous for hundreds of bloody wars killing millions, there is only peace today: there is hope. but it's a fraught financial marriage, not a political one, which it must evolve into, without fragmenting
if peace is to be achieved, it is with a rational reading of human nature, not a castle in the sky way of thinking. that is: a police force to keep those who always try violence to a simmering minimum, and courts used to resolve conflict. in this "perfect" world, the only war that will be left will be street level gang stuff, which is the nucleus for all larger wars, and therefore must always be maintained at a minimization, constant effort, or the street gangs will metastasize and we will have warlords across the countryside
everyone wants peace, yes. everybody wants to be rich too. everybody wants to be famous. so what? empty vapid platitudes without any understanding of what it takes to achieve what you want has no value
well, of course, those who want peace without force of arms do have a plan: all it takes is for human beings to just start acting like human beings never have. simple!
the "desire for" X != X. dreamers don't produce anything. empty dreams also don't fill you with any wisdom or any rationale on which to pass judgment on others. its just building castles in the sky. a pleasant, empty exercise
you want peace? good for you. something a toddler can smile and clap at, with no other meaning and value as to actual results in the world
actually, the original 1989 was a pretty damn good movie. of course, totally different than dark knight, but good on its own merits in its own time. yes, by the time mr. freeze and poison ivy and bane and nippled suits showed up, it was suckage, but it took time to get there
likewise, in a few iterations, nolan's batman universe will be suckage too, much like cameron leaving the terminator universe left it as suckage. let's hope nolan and thomas hardy can do something inspiring with bane in the meantime:
also, superman was done right the first time, and was suckage the second time (now they're trying for a third time!)
and let's not talk about the hulk
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no, it can't. because real money is backed by something real. coinage that has no value, has no value. we don't invest coinage with meaning and value just by crossing our fingers, we invest meaning and value in it because it actually stands for something
that's ok. because i'm venting in a comment thread, not writing a thesis paper. stop applying thesis paper level standards to a comment thread
and also: stop expecting "sources." i hate people who want sources in informal comment threads. this isn't intellectual charity, do your own damn homework
if you don't like something i've written, refute it yourself. it's not my job to bring you up to speed, i'm not your dad. i have no expectation that you're going to agree with me, so go ahead and reject my words, that's ok. but ONLY respond if you have something specific to reject
because a boilerplate criticism of my supposed lack of adequacy is frankly, inadequate. say something about the topic or fuck off. nobody appointed you the adequacy police, you have no standing to write what you just wrote. no one does, including me. you're playing the wrong game
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they are about expressing and releasing violent and sexual energies that have no other outlet. much of violent and sexual impulses cannot be released in socially acceptable ways. so on some basic level, this is why violent and sexual media are so successful: they fill a need
it has always been my assertion that violent and sexual media doesn't CREATE inappropriate violent and sexual real life behavior, but instead serves as a form of releasing what is already there. in other words, those who oppose violent and sexual media are working on an inaccurate model of human psychology: we are not empty vessels that are corrupted. we are vessels already, naturally, innately, full of violent and sexual impulses. and we need a way to release them harmlessly, lest they be released harmfully. so violent and sexual media DECREASE real world inappropriate violence and sexxual behavior in my view
of course, videogames don't HAVE to be violent or sexual
but what i am saying, psychologically, is that the most successful videogames will always be violent or sexual. that's the most important need they fill
operatic
betelgeuse is in orion's armpit, so it's only going to blow his arm off
luckily for orion the star that's going to blow isn't the one at the tip of his dick:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Orion_constelation_PP3_map_PL.jpg
oh wait... M42 already IS a nebula. he's already blown his interstellar load
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nebulae/m42.html
cosmic spooge
apparently orion gets too easily sexually excited when he's hunting
wait, i'm sorry, it's not his dick, it's his SWORD
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Orionurania.jpg
riiiight
that's what the ancients were thinking?
riiight
what's the matter?
crawford stopped taking the bait?
let's act responsibly:
1. get a babysitter. people walk out windows, gouge out their eyeballs, and pick up knives and start swinging when on strong hallucinogens. people have panic attacks and think they are dying. you are highly suggestible, so you can be warded away from a bad trip by a good guide. so you need a sober responsible person who can keep you safe. maybe return the favor. but don't trip alone, and don't trip in groups, and don't trip with irresponsible people as your backup
2. be aware of the phenomenon of flashbacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Flashbacks_and_HPPD
i'm not engaging in fear and hysteria. you need a sober understanding of what you are playing with here. go ahead and trip, but understand that these hallucinogens are very powerful. if you have a flashback a few days later while driving, and you are aware of what is going on, you can deescalate the situation. if you don't know about flashbacks, you can freak out and kill yourself or others. knolwedge is power. be educated
because what is the victim of irresponsible drug use? legality is. lsd and magic mushrooms will be legalized someday, but that day will be very far away if irresponsible idiots keep tripping without backups and walk out windows or stab innocent passerbys
be responsible, or you ruin it for the rest of us
are the comments by people with a grudge to settle against the police (probably for their own bad behavior they won't own up to) try to use cases like this as a proxy for their grudge: the hostage taker is an innocent lamb whose actions are perfectly understandable, caused by the police, and the police are vicious thugs out to shoot random people any chance they get
do you understand, moron, that you have been paying for freeloaders who avoid their bills, for decades? hospitals in the usa are always on the verge of bankruptcy, always bailed out. with your tax dollars. covering for the uninsured who avoid their bills because they can't afford them
do you understand that that is reality already?
you don't seem to
not much going on upstairs, huh?
a freeloader:
someone who gets their hospital bill, and avoids it, as millions of young and poor do every year. then the govt, your tax dollars, has to bail out the hospital
WE ALREADY PAY FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
FOR DECADES
morons like you are scared of reagan era stereotypes, like the welfare queen, while your intractable stubbornness to pay for healthcare INTELLIGENTLY enables millions of freeloaders every year!
blindness, stupidity, propagandized dimwitted sheep baying against their own self-interests while some healthcare exec makes a mint off your back
fucking pathetic, and worse, terminally STUPID
"before claiming i am ignorant you should, at minimum, cite at least one thing i've claimed that is inaccurate"
that american healthcare is good or inexpensive. that is an inaccurate belief on your part. says who? says REALITY, not me: why don't you read the 3 fucking links i posted above, it's really easy to see
"You plan on making me suffer further on account of someone else. That's because you're evil."
currently, we do not turn people away when they show up with a broken arm at the hospital. that would be evil, right?
if they are young or poor, and they can't afford the bill, they avoid it. then the hospital is in danger of going bankrupt. so the government, your tax dollars, bails out the hospital
THIS HAS BEEN THE WAY IT WORKS FOR DECADES
paying for everyone's healthcare is ALREADY SOMETHING YOU DO. i'm not asking you or forcing you to do something you haven't done already for decades. WE ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. FOR DECADES. all i am asking is you pay for IT IN A MORE INTELLIGENT WAY
additionally, with insurance for everyone THE FREELOADERS AS THEY CURRENTLY EXIST WHO AVOID THEIR BILLS cannot exist, because they HAVE to have insurance. currently, people like you, who will not let intelligent universal healthcare happen, you are forcing ME to pay for people who don't pay their bills. therefore by YOUR DEFINITION OF EVIL, you are evil, right?
but i don't really think you're evil. you're just fucking stupid, because you don't see reality. a faux news propagandized sheep: corporate propaganda bought, paid for, spoonfed to your trusting, dimwitted mind, against your own self-interests
WAKE UP, moron
"You have simply insulted me, over and over."
yes, you have a right to complain about that, when you stop calling people evil, hypocrite
wow, my very own pet stalker. i feel so important. i'm worthy of a stalker!
what do i do with you stalker? do you dance on cue?
" If you can't afford it -- you don't get treated. End of story. Yes, if you have something fatal, then you will die. Tough. You have no right to rob the rest of us to prolong your life."
you're a social darwinist. the poor should hurry up and die already. that's what you believe in
i'm glad you're finally coming around to admitting to yourself what exactly you are: evil and immoral
"It's all very well and good for the Danish that you claim they are happy and pay less. Like I said - move there if you find it superior. It should be a pareto improvement for both of us: you get what you want, I get what I want (freedom from your bullshit)"
no, sorry, see: it's my country, and i love it. and i will not let faux news propagandized idiots ruin the country i love. so i'm going to fight for it, for what is right and what makes sense, against the unintelligent brainwashed morons of the world. and we're going to prevail. because we have reason, sense, and facts on our side
"I am not ultimately concerned with metrics or outcomes, I am concerned with principles and ethics"
what do i do? laugh at this sentence? like i said: unintelligent. brainwashed. your sentence makes no sense
if a country has inferior healthcare (yes, it's inferior, despite any anecdote you have), at higher prices, something is wrong. something is wrong ethically, and something is wrong in the principles. why do you continue to defend an inferior, more expensive system? not because you know anything superior, but because you're stubborn, and proud of your ignorance, that's all
you need more facts, less ignorant attitude:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mortality_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_(PPP)_per_capita
those are the facts. argue all you want. fact: the usa gets inferior healthcare, and spends much more per capita. FACT, asshole. deal with it
where do they live longer and spend less? where they have universal healthcare. FACT, asshole. deal with it
so we are going to get to a superior financial, AND ETHICAL world, with better principles, in spite of your strideful ignorance. sorry, you lose. not enough corporate propaganda to remove functional braincells in me, and many others. sorry
the danish live longer than us and pay less for healthcare
"You can move to Denmark if you want to. Why are you insistent on fucking up _here_ ?"
dude: WE are the ones who are fucked up, who are paying billions more for inferior healthcare. you have some weird idea of the usa being superior, when it is clearly inferior in the realm of healthcare
i understand this
your problem with my words aren't really with me, but how the word "libertarian" has been coopted by free market fundamentalists, social darwinists, and other assorted assholes
libertarianism, as defined historically, and as defined in other parts of the world outside the usa, is a very respectable word
the problem is the word has been hijacked in the usa by certain scumbags, and has been corrupted. the problem is the scumbags calling themselves libertarian, when, in the traditional sense of the word, they most definitely are not
the problem is only growing. i regret to inform you the word "libertarian" has been defiled
agreed
shameful and disgusting, isn't it? how corporations trump individuals in this country, to the point of people paying more for healthcare, and dying earlier, for the sake of some company's bottom line
hey, asshole:
you believe the poor should die. because that's what will happen in your world
oh i know you won't come out and say that. and the idea probably repulses you
but what you don't understand is that the poor just dying is what will happen in the style of government you want. that means you are stupid, not evil. you are so stupid you don't understand what your beliefs actually result in
example: i'm broke, and i come into the hospital with a broken arm. do they say "do you have enough cash to pay for your broken arm?" if i say no, do the kick me out? no? if they treat me anyway, and send me a bill, and i avoid the bill because i can't afford it, then what? do i go to debtor's prison? finally, do we let the hospital go bankrupt because of all the people not paying their bills? no: the govt bails out the hospital
hey, asshole:
WE ALREADY HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN THE USA, FOR DECADES
people can't afford their bills, avoid them, and the govt continually bails out the hospitals from going bankrupt. PAID FOR WITH YOUR TAXES
we already have universal healthcare you dimwit!
now all i'm asking you to do IS STOP STICKING UP FOR FREELOADERS who avoid their bills, AND PAY FOR THE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IN AN INTELLIGENT WAY, rather the extremely pigheaded and wasteful way we pay for it
why are you so fucking thick you can't see this?
i understand what you believe. you believe in social darwinism
uh, stalker?: you need to get a life
that's not an american personality failure, that's a human personality failure
otherwise you are correct
all we can hope for is reason and intelligence triumphing over emotional hysterical low iq dimwits. the problem is, corporate money has noticed that they can directly influence the opinion of dimwits with fox news demagoguery, and sway opinion and therefore law to protect their cash cows
the crazy part is the dimwits will argue against their own interest: cheap better healthcare. because it's evil SOCIALISM! aaaah!
the premium americans pay for their expensive inferior healthcare goes into media campaigns that keep them with expensive inferior healthcare. the corporate execs keep getting paid, so everything is fine
hilarious and/ or tragic. either way, it is our downfall
is haiti, somalia
meanwhile, evil socialist countries like denmark, uk: they live longer than us, and pay less on healthcare, and are just plain happier and less stressed
universal healthcare is just insurance, that's all it is. there is no one who can opt out of healthcare because if you break your arm, we're not going to let you walk around with your arm dangling, we're going to treat you. THAT'S what makes it mandatory: simple human morality. you're going to hold it against your fellow citizens that we want you to be healthy. it's your "choice" not to be treated? or is it your "choice" to be treated AND NOT PAY FOR IT, freeloader? the freeloaders are not the stereotypical welfare queen, the freeloaders are the young "libertarians" who break their arm, go to the hospital, and then avoid the bill because they can't afford it!
why are some americans so fucking deranged on the obvious benefits of universal healthcare, and how "choice" is MORE EXPENSIVE, the REAL freeloading, and less healthy? who don't people understand the obvious?
yes, the whole world is in a giant mexican standoff
where areas of the world are at peace, they are at standoff with other areas of the world. this isn't to say peace isn't impossible without land wars. conflict is inevitable, war is not. within a country, the police keep things from descending into physical violence, and the courts resolve conflicts verbally. this is as close as you get to peace on a global basis, or within and maybe even between a handful of nation blocs like ASEAN or the EU, should they congeal further and invest more common destiny in with their neighbors
as i hope they do: in the case of europe, a continent famous for hundreds of bloody wars killing millions, there is only peace today: there is hope. but it's a fraught financial marriage, not a political one, which it must evolve into, without fragmenting
if peace is to be achieved, it is with a rational reading of human nature, not a castle in the sky way of thinking. that is: a police force to keep those who always try violence to a simmering minimum, and courts used to resolve conflict. in this "perfect" world, the only war that will be left will be street level gang stuff, which is the nucleus for all larger wars, and therefore must always be maintained at a minimization, constant effort, or the street gangs will metastasize and we will have warlords across the countryside
everyone wants peace, yes. everybody wants to be rich too. everybody wants to be famous. so what? empty vapid platitudes without any understanding of what it takes to achieve what you want has no value
well, of course, those who want peace without force of arms do have a plan: all it takes is for human beings to just start acting like human beings never have. simple!
the "desire for" X != X. dreamers don't produce anything. empty dreams also don't fill you with any wisdom or any rationale on which to pass judgment on others. its just building castles in the sky. a pleasant, empty exercise
you want peace? good for you. something a toddler can smile and clap at, with no other meaning and value as to actual results in the world
i think you are referring to batman
actually, the original 1989 was a pretty damn good movie. of course, totally different than dark knight, but good on its own merits in its own time. yes, by the time mr. freeze and poison ivy and bane and nippled suits showed up, it was suckage, but it took time to get there
likewise, in a few iterations, nolan's batman universe will be suckage too, much like cameron leaving the terminator universe left it as suckage. let's hope nolan and thomas hardy can do something inspiring with bane in the meantime:
http://watchplayread.com/first-images-of-tom-hardy-as-bane-in-dark-knight-rises/
also, superman was done right the first time, and was suckage the second time (now they're trying for a third time!)
and let's not talk about the hulk
no, it can't. because real money is backed by something real. coinage that has no value, has no value. we don't invest coinage with meaning and value just by crossing our fingers, we invest meaning and value in it because it actually stands for something
that's ok. because i'm venting in a comment thread, not writing a thesis paper. stop applying thesis paper level standards to a comment thread
and also: stop expecting "sources." i hate people who want sources in informal comment threads. this isn't intellectual charity, do your own damn homework
if you don't like something i've written, refute it yourself. it's not my job to bring you up to speed, i'm not your dad. i have no expectation that you're going to agree with me, so go ahead and reject my words, that's ok. but ONLY respond if you have something specific to reject
because a boilerplate criticism of my supposed lack of adequacy is frankly, inadequate. say something about the topic or fuck off. nobody appointed you the adequacy police, you have no standing to write what you just wrote. no one does, including me. you're playing the wrong game