(07-14-2023, 10:10 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(07-14-2023, 09:40 AM)Caldrac Wrote: You would have thought January 6th of 2020 would have been enough. It wasn't apparently. I guess we'll have to wait on a conservative to get voted in next year and the Capitol Building gets attacked by Sam Smith types dressed up like Satan throwing rainbow colored sex toys at everybody before the powder keg finally explodes.

I don’t advocate violence in any way. But the absence of the threat of personal violence has turned people into spiteful venomous snakes. What this signifies is at our core, humans are still barely evolved animals.

Yeah. It's a game of give and take. I agree with this. We went from debts and insults being settled with duels by sword and flintlock pistols to media and social media mob shaming. I think violence is in our core. It drove our survival instincts for years. Fight or flight. Adapt or die. Sink or swim. 

We have become too comfortable and too cozy now as a species. That's why it's heavily populated now and why people are pushing for things to slow down. Standard of living is too good now for most people. We've overdue for a reset. This is by far, my favorite meme I have seen in years. 

I say it a lot on here and around my family. Humans are creatures of habit. Everything is cyclical. Rinse and repeat. We always look back in history books and dub specific civilizations and empires "great", yet, those great moments in our history always come to an end at some point. What most people don't like to remember or accept, is that, often times? Those moments in our history were birthed and laid to rest via, what? Violence, Slavery, Bloodshed and piles upon piles of death and destruction. There can be no progress without pain.

Sometimes in order to move forward? We must deconstruct and throw our inhibitions aside.

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