05-09-2023, 03:07 PM
It isn't about guns, or hate-filled incels. Our society is dying, plain and simple. New gun laws or better enforcement of existing laws isn't going to change that reality. There's only so much stress people can take before they snap, and what we're witnessing is more and more people snapping. That *should* be of concern to people, irrespective of whether or not there is gun violence involved.
Society is collapsing and all the powers-that-be are concerned about is waging war and chasing after bogeymen in defense of "democracy". Such a sardonic irony, because a people that truly valued democracy wouldn't rely on government to maintain societal well-being. They would never stand by and allow society to deteriorate to the point that it began to collapse. Never.
One of the prerequisites to valuing democracy is understanding what it is, and isn't, but try telling that to people who falsely believe that they do understand, because they will never in a million years concede that they don't know what they think they do. Pain is the only thing that gets through to such people, so pain it is -- and with no end in sight, because the people who rule over us are sadists.
Rats in a Skinner box, socialized to think they are free. Let them out of the box and they'll beg to get back in. Because they think they know what freedom is.
Society is collapsing and all the powers-that-be are concerned about is waging war and chasing after bogeymen in defense of "democracy". Such a sardonic irony, because a people that truly valued democracy wouldn't rely on government to maintain societal well-being. They would never stand by and allow society to deteriorate to the point that it began to collapse. Never.
One of the prerequisites to valuing democracy is understanding what it is, and isn't, but try telling that to people who falsely believe that they do understand, because they will never in a million years concede that they don't know what they think they do. Pain is the only thing that gets through to such people, so pain it is -- and with no end in sight, because the people who rule over us are sadists.
Rats in a Skinner box, socialized to think they are free. Let them out of the box and they'll beg to get back in. Because they think they know what freedom is.