RE: Human Nature
April 27, 2025 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2025 at 12:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Tying it all together, I don't think that any good can come from internalizing life rejecting mythologies, in any form, however described (and however defined)...and that's where contemporary misanthropy in the west comes from. It all goes back to ridiculous gods and their ridiculous standards and the cultures we've built around them (or for them). Where just being yourself.....can be Bad™. How much we've been made to be ashamed to be human, and how much we seek public validation for private accomplishments and failures. How much we've been lead to believe that the problems we face as natural and social creatures in natural and societal environments are, actually....somehow....all specifically human problems. Our own fault.
No. This place is a meatgrinder. Nothing All Nicelike™ has ever survived here. Most of the nasty things are dead too. The worst I can personally say about us is that we're underacheiving reactionaries. It's a defect, but endearing in it's own way. Goofy fuckups with a baked-in mean streak. Even when I say that, there's a bit of guilt. I want to show more presence for living. Having experienced things that make me understand why decent people do shitty things - being able to empathize with prejudice, desperation, hopelessness, even illness...all of it, before evil. I try (and fail) to limit my own latent misanthropy to myself. Assume the worst of my own bad acts and the best of others. The presumption of positive intent is good practice in business and life.
Governance....maybe not so much, lol. Those people are all weirdos. Not a normie in the bunch. If I were writing laws and manufacturing ideologies anew...I'd probably insist that the government had to assume positive intent on behalf of any person (citizen or non citizen) it was dealing with (or accusing)....but that the government itself possessed and should never possess any such right or privilege. I think we should make it a practice to routinely crawl all the way up all their asses just because it's tuesday. "People", for example, are going towards alternative energy all on their own. The market has spoken. The math has turned. The physics are conspiring against ff and derivatives as we know and use them. Some of our politicians in some of our governments are bucking all of that, and they'll fail. Maybe our job is not so much to prevent them from trying as it is to make sure they fail even faster. Help them learn through pain. Make them broke, and hungry, and scared...while the rest of us become more fulfilled, more secure, less exploitable.
No. This place is a meatgrinder. Nothing All Nicelike™ has ever survived here. Most of the nasty things are dead too. The worst I can personally say about us is that we're underacheiving reactionaries. It's a defect, but endearing in it's own way. Goofy fuckups with a baked-in mean streak. Even when I say that, there's a bit of guilt. I want to show more presence for living. Having experienced things that make me understand why decent people do shitty things - being able to empathize with prejudice, desperation, hopelessness, even illness...all of it, before evil. I try (and fail) to limit my own latent misanthropy to myself. Assume the worst of my own bad acts and the best of others. The presumption of positive intent is good practice in business and life.
Governance....maybe not so much, lol. Those people are all weirdos. Not a normie in the bunch. If I were writing laws and manufacturing ideologies anew...I'd probably insist that the government had to assume positive intent on behalf of any person (citizen or non citizen) it was dealing with (or accusing)....but that the government itself possessed and should never possess any such right or privilege. I think we should make it a practice to routinely crawl all the way up all their asses just because it's tuesday. "People", for example, are going towards alternative energy all on their own. The market has spoken. The math has turned. The physics are conspiring against ff and derivatives as we know and use them. Some of our politicians in some of our governments are bucking all of that, and they'll fail. Maybe our job is not so much to prevent them from trying as it is to make sure they fail even faster. Help them learn through pain. Make them broke, and hungry, and scared...while the rest of us become more fulfilled, more secure, less exploitable.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
