Well I agree with you completely but you're naming 2 different things in one sentence here.. Drinking and smoking are generally a social activity more than anything, a desire to follow roll models, to proove you're cool to your friends. Taking drugs is generally more a curiosity as to what a trip might feel/be like. They all lead to a physical or mental dependance on a certain substance, but the incentive to start with them is fundamentally different.
I fully agree on the rest of your post. Kids are sneaky devious and agile players that are aware about what's legal and what's not, alltough they might miss the details of the exact law. The fact that computers, and with it, whole batches of types and applications have proliferated throughout the world in 10 to 15 years time probably is greatly influenced by kids who bought them or asked their parents, and then copied everything they could get their hands on, to such an effect that they were, once again, cool to their friends.
The kind of brainwashing that is now proposed makes me think that kapitalism is beginning to look like franchised version of communism, and free speech is functionally limitted more and more . I'm glad I can still think of myself, but I'm afraid of a future where even more people can't decide good and bad for themselves any longer, an issue which is at the heart of today's society's biggest social problems methinks..
Oh shut up... The fact is: it's human nature!:) It's perfectly natural for people in a given region to band together and blame
everyone else. We won't come together as a planet until the day that someone/something outside this planet rears their ugly
"heads".
Quite, but on the other hand, it's only fun as long as you don't mean it. From the moment one of the parties feels disgruntled you don't have fun but an argument instead. That still is no problem, if you are open to strike agreement again.
Now I know the Americans have an ego from here to the whitehouse but are generally very friendly, and Canadians seem like very conscient, caring and goodharted people, so WWIII will prolly not occur in ye good olde Canada just yet.
So, my point is, give credit where it is due, even if you had a laugh over something:) And that doesnt mean giving credit every single time something works, because that's just stupid. Nationalism and racesism is the most dangerous drug every conceived, so don't get blindsighted by it. Have a laugh, but keep your respect. Fuck. This sounds like a lecture, sorry bout that.
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Well I agree with you completely but you're naming 2 different things in one sentence here.. Drinking and smoking are generally a social activity more than anything, a desire to follow roll models, to proove you're cool to your friends. Taking drugs is generally more a curiosity as to what a trip might feel/be like. They all lead to a physical or mental dependance on a certain substance, but the incentive to start with them is fundamentally different.
I fully agree on the rest of your post. Kids are sneaky devious and agile players that are aware about what's legal and what's not, alltough they might miss the details of the exact law. The fact that computers, and with it, whole batches of types and applications have proliferated throughout the world in 10 to 15 years time probably is greatly influenced by kids who bought them or asked their parents, and then copied everything they could get their hands on, to such an effect that they were, once again, cool to their friends.
The kind of brainwashing that is now proposed makes me think that kapitalism is beginning to look like franchised version of communism, and free speech is functionally limitted more and more . I'm glad I can still think of myself, but I'm afraid of a future where even more people can't decide good and bad for themselves any longer, an issue which is at the heart of today's society's biggest social problems methinks..
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Oh shut up... The fact is: it's human nature! :) It's perfectly natural for people in a given region to band together and blame
everyone else. We won't come together as a planet until the day that someone/something outside this planet rears their ugly
"heads".
:) And that doesnt mean giving credit every single time something works, because that's just stupid. Nationalism and racesism is the most dangerous drug every conceived, so don't get blindsighted by it. Have a laugh, but keep your respect. Fuck. This sounds like a lecture, sorry bout that.
Quite, but on the other hand, it's only fun as long as you don't mean it. From the moment one of the parties feels disgruntled you don't have fun but an argument instead. That still is no problem, if you are open to strike agreement again.
Now I know the Americans have an ego from here to the whitehouse but are generally very friendly, and Canadians seem like very conscient, caring and goodharted people, so WWIII will prolly not occur in ye good olde Canada just yet.
So, my point is, give credit where it is due, even if you had a laugh over something
All the best