(May 10, 2022 at 5:59 am)h311inac311 Wrote: Well Ray Croc is an excellent business man, that's obviously why his business model that hires teenagers to sell you a cheap burger is so successful. Same goes for most stories which have stood the test of time and permeated all cultures. There are very few things which are massively popular or successful which, at least at the outset, weren't based on something great.
If you're comparing the value of organized religion to a hamburger, I won't dispute it.
Quote:Evil only knows how to kill steal and destroy that which righteousness creates.
Actually, evil is better at exploiting righteousness than destroying it.
Quote:We're seeing this now in Hollywood as it is endlessly remaking and retelling old stories which resonated with millions across the world. Only now these stories have mary-sue type women who are handed everything (Mulan, Rey) because Hollywood is trying to appeal to a new kind of feminist virtue which insists that women are special for existing, rather than that they are special for overcoming difficulty (or sexism in the case of Mulan). The result is bad stories which teach no good morals, a fireworks show at best that is here today and forgotten tomorrow.
You hate fictional women as well as real women. Got it.
Quote:It takes great virtue to establish a great empire, and no matter how much wealth you amass you are typically only 3 generations from wasting the entire family's fortune.
The establishment of an empire has never, ever required virtue. It requires just the opposite - a lust for stuff owned by other people and a willingness to do whatever is required to get your mitts on it (a callous disregard for human life helps a lot).
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
