Forum Post: Modern Man
Posted 12 years ago on April 23, 2012, 5:01 a.m. EST by GypsyKing
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Just say the hell with it.
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Thanks! I needed that this morning. Sometimes I think its a little childish to think the shiny toys are a real improvement to the quality of the human condition. My grandparents liked hot water, toilets, and thermostats. The rest they weren't so sold on.
I'm glad you appreciated it. I just about busted my gut laughing when I saw this. We've become so distracted that we can't see what's right in front of our faces anymore.
I know! We get told how great we have it so much, we never stop and go, "Really? You call this an improvement?!"
You said it! That's why I bailed out in 99 and have lived in the jungle ever since. I prefer banyan trees to cell phones. As long as I have my books I'm loving it:)
Rural Georgia is about like the jungle. I always catch myself watching documentaries where they find some isolated tribe and film them. Its way better than reality TV shows. If you watch it for about an hour or two you see everyone has large set of basic skills, there are specialized skills, and most people spend the bulk of their time socializing not grubbing for food. I think watching that is why I am the last holdout from face book. To me that is not socializing.
One of the last holdouts. FB is the poster child for American self-absorption. It's pitiful. It's anti-socializing. On a positive note, a little more than half of all Americans don't have a FB page. Not all of us have lost our minds (yet!).
Yes, I agree totally. It's sad to me that we are now raising generations who don't even know what they're missing. I don't do facebook either; that's psudo-socializing. Where I am I can actually see the stars at night - all of them, and I can tell you, it's way better than TV. Way better. And when you talk to people they actually listen, and visa versa. The pace of American life now is truely insane, and I don't just mean that figuratively.
On that score, I'm glad I live in a rural area. You see someone speeding and go, Really? Its Podunk, you need to go 80 miles an hour to get to Podunk???!!! It boggles my mind. When I lived in Mass. What struck me was this girl I worked with, she had two jobs and wanted a third to make her car payments. I told her to sell the car, get something cheaper that would go from point A to point B usually and save her money. What good is a car if it only drives you to three jobs??? She just looked like she totally didn't get it.
I know, it's totally crazy.
Do you mean crazy like insane? As in doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results, such as what the American Sheeple do when they vote on false choices in rigged elections with predetermined outcomes?
Yep.
How is it that you live in the jungle, yet are acquainted with the pace of American life? Is the "jungle" you live in near some urban American area, or is your comment based solely on vicarious assimilation?
I'm American and lived there for 40 years.
You lived where, exactly, and for what 40 year period? When did it start and end? I ask as that must certainly impact your perspective.
George Carlin: Why I Don't Vote:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/george-carlin-why-i-dont-vote/
Oh, not this tired subject again. I'd appreciate it if you didn't vote anyway. We won't survive Mitt the shit.
We will not survive another four years of Obama either. No matter: They answer to the same masters. Nothing has changed since 9/11, and nothing will ever be changed through rigged elections with predetermined outcomes.
Why don't you just come out and say you're here to not so subtly promote Romney by convincing people here not to vote? Ever get tired of this game?
I would not vote for any Republican candidate even if they held a gun to my head. I would not vote for any Democratic candidate even if they held a gun to my head. I will not vote in rigged elections with false choices and predetermined outcomes.
You could vote for the "Occupy" candidate. He won't get elected this time around, but this way you make a statement. That's what I'm thinking about doing. This way, you're not playing the same old R-D game,and helping to show Americans are tired of it and are thinking of a third alternative.
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