By it's defenition mediocraty is where most people are. This arguments only explains a little about how things came to be what they are. We are arguing to make things better.
Most people are mediocre, that's why it won't work. Those better than you or I will find their way back on top, where they belong, and those worse than us will sink to the bottom where they ought to be. You would have to support the weak and kill the strong to maintain the status quo of 'meh'. If my children were to be better than me and those around them, why would I want to leave them a world where the highest they can rise to is the same as his neighbor?
No you wouldn't. You would just have to redefine the top as contributing most instead of, as it now is, extracting most. Don't you think enormous potential for greatness is lost working long grueling hours just to survive?
You can redefine whatever you want, but value has always, and i do mean all the way back to flinging our monkey shit around always, been about whoever has the most stuff period. Collecting the most shit; guns, cars, raw cash, precious metals, food; has been the name of the game forever for every one. If you squander you potential on a 9 to 5 that's your prerogative. Get on a greyhound and stop living in a city where living wage is twice what i make. You don't get to pick your hand you just play it, make the best of you situation because no one will give you anything. I grew up with nothing but bills and lights every other month, but i made the most of it, i don't need someones handouts and i don't want them. Everything i have i clawed for with my own two hands. If someone else lacks the resolve to just fucking deal then I don't know what to say.
I don't care about how unequal everyone is, i care about my family, me, and my community in that order and i'll provide for them in that order. And upheaval of the system puts me, my family, and my community in danger from either the dissidents, the establishment, or the sure to be their gangs of criminals taking advantage of the chaos. Don't work hard work smart, if you can't get by in your current situation you gotta figure that one out on your own, because me and most people are busy working within and around the system for our own benefit.
My grandfather cared about, his family, himself, and his community. My greatgrandfather cared about his family, himself, and his community. My great great grandfather cared about his family, himself, and his community. And so on ad infinitum. The ideas of caring for yourself and your family first are as old as shit.
I don't lack empathy, i am no indifferent to the suffering of others, I just care more about providing comfort for those I love, than food for those I don't.
You are so sure of the collapse of the current system that you've turned into a monster hiding in your closet.
When the system collapses I will remain, to provide for my family, myself, and my community. Those are the pillars I hold important above all others. If I have to shoot a stranger to feed my neighbor I'll do it. But for now i will adapt to the system and i will succeed in it regardless of my start in it.
And yet you say you were born with nothing but bills. It's a giant pyramid scheme and you, my equestrian friend, are fighting for the ones at the top at the cost of the ones at the bottom.
By it's defenition mediocraty is where most people are. This arguments only explains a little about how things came to be what they are. We are arguing to make things better.
Most people are mediocre, that's why it won't work. Those better than you or I will find their way back on top, where they belong, and those worse than us will sink to the bottom where they ought to be. You would have to support the weak and kill the strong to maintain the status quo of 'meh'. If my children were to be better than me and those around them, why would I want to leave them a world where the highest they can rise to is the same as his neighbor?
No you wouldn't. You would just have to redefine the top as contributing most instead of, as it now is, extracting most. Don't you think enormous potential for greatness is lost working long grueling hours just to survive?
You can redefine whatever you want, but value has always, and i do mean all the way back to flinging our monkey shit around always, been about whoever has the most stuff period. Collecting the most shit; guns, cars, raw cash, precious metals, food; has been the name of the game forever for every one. If you squander you potential on a 9 to 5 that's your prerogative. Get on a greyhound and stop living in a city where living wage is twice what i make. You don't get to pick your hand you just play it, make the best of you situation because no one will give you anything. I grew up with nothing but bills and lights every other month, but i made the most of it, i don't need someones handouts and i don't want them. Everything i have i clawed for with my own two hands. If someone else lacks the resolve to just fucking deal then I don't know what to say.
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I don't care about how unequal everyone is, i care about my family, me, and my community in that order and i'll provide for them in that order. And upheaval of the system puts me, my family, and my community in danger from either the dissidents, the establishment, or the sure to be their gangs of criminals taking advantage of the chaos. Don't work hard work smart, if you can't get by in your current situation you gotta figure that one out on your own, because me and most people are busy working within and around the system for our own benefit.
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My grandfather cared about, his family, himself, and his community. My greatgrandfather cared about his family, himself, and his community. My great great grandfather cared about his family, himself, and his community. And so on ad infinitum. The ideas of caring for yourself and your family first are as old as shit.
I don't lack empathy, i am no indifferent to the suffering of others, I just care more about providing comfort for those I love, than food for those I don't.
You are so sure of the collapse of the current system that you've turned into a monster hiding in your closet.
When the system collapses I will remain, to provide for my family, myself, and my community. Those are the pillars I hold important above all others. If I have to shoot a stranger to feed my neighbor I'll do it. But for now i will adapt to the system and i will succeed in it regardless of my start in it.
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And yet you say you were born with nothing but bills. It's a giant pyramid scheme and you, my equestrian friend, are fighting for the ones at the top at the cost of the ones at the bottom.
And that is exactly the problem. That in this society you have to choose between those things. It's a pyramid scheme.
Again, an argument that things "just are what they are". We are trying to make things better.