Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
You are, implicitly. By posting it in a public forum and saying; "Hey come get a look at these idiots!", you're asking us all to listen to the "proof."
I mean yeah, I have the choice to not listen to it, you can't do anything about it, but you're still clearly asking.
You are, implicitly. By posting it in a public forum and saying; "Hey come get a look at these idiots!", you're asking us all to listen to the "proof."
I mean yeah, I have the choice to not listen to it, you can't do anything about it, but you're still clearly asking.
To me it means that I am a part of this whole world and I can't irresponsibly ignore parts of it because it's convenient to do so or I don't like thinking or caring about them.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Honestly, my concerns these days aren't at all with cultural conflict. They're with commodification.
As human beings existing in a capitalistic society, our places are defined by the currency we represent. As consumers, we are commodities. As creators of media or goods or even culture, we're still commodities. Even trying to fight for something like "human rights" has to have money involved, and that pursuit is about accruing status and power. Everywhere we go, if we want to survive, if we want to live, we have to sell something about ourselves.
To be a citizen in the global society is to have your value based on your status as a commodity.
And I'll sell myself, just like everyone else. To survive, to live.
But I refuse to buy that bullshit. I refuse to live in that world.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
It's..."nice" to think about other parts of the world. To look further than your boundaries and borders.
But to me, so many "global citizens" forget about the land upon which they stand. They forget about their fellows that are suffering that are right beside them.
Trying to put a price tag on everything is an ethically very troublesome idea, because (1) it ties everything to an artificial concept of wealth, (2) it then assumes that it is possible to get more of all resources with more wealth, and (3) it produces the illusion that these things are interchangeable. Two gallons of gas, a discounted videogame, a footlong sub sandwich, many rolls of toilet paper, four hours of legal access to a parking space, etc..
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
It's not just money. It's also social capital, where you can ascend social class by being associated with people of that class.
Support for things, labor, is also another currency.
Votes are also currency, which are bought with acts of governance that you find favorable.
Public image and public relations and influence is another kind of currency, which can be traded for any of the other things, and even more intangible currencies.
Any currency can theoretically be exchanged for other currencies and they all have their own rules, and at any moment, whatever you're doing in the global stage is generating currency for someone else's agenda.
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I'm not even sure what I meant with that post
9 mm is closest but uh
something called a 9 mm Mars was .360 caliber. it was experimental and there were less than a hundred of them when they quit making em in 1907
what's your deal comic book dude
I should have posted it in a non-public thread though. Sorry about that.
so he's just using a 19th century firearm along with a plasma cannon
Okay, cool. Whatever.
And I shouldn't have posted them in a public thread. My apologies to them and to you all here.
To me it means that I am a part of this whole world and I can't irresponsibly ignore parts of it because it's convenient to do so or I don't like thinking or caring about them.
Trying to put a price tag on everything is an ethically very troublesome idea, because
(1) it ties everything to an artificial concept of wealth,
(2) it then assumes that it is possible to get more of all resources with more wealth, and
(3) it produces the illusion that these things are interchangeable. Two gallons of gas, a discounted videogame, a footlong sub sandwich, many rolls of toilet paper, four hours of legal access to a parking space, etc..
rogue conditioned unit