Quote:Original post by coldacidQuote:Original post by LessBread
Do you really think that casting this in political terms will shed any light on the matter? And would you be upset if I characterized your remarks as utterly fascist? Because, quite frankly, that crap about the "will to power" stinks of fascism. The terrorists aren't going to get us because we stopped our children from playing dodgeball. That's just stupid. If the terrorists get us, it will be because we got stupid and selfish and elected stupid and selfish people to office.
I'll admit that I might have over-politicized it, and no, I don't think that it'll really help matters. And I don't care if you characterize my remarks as fascist. That's your opinion.
Yes, my opinion based on the evidence that you've supplied.
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Mine is that conflict, especially physical conflict, has been a driving force of humanity since its dawn, some 2 million years ago. And that it is wrong to try and legislate the less severe forms of it away. The next thing you know, they'll start fining kittens for scrapping with each other, or puppies for the same. It's more or less the same thing with kids in the playground. And as to will to power, what base instincts push us to succeed at all we do? Dominion and breeding. Anyone who says that in their deepest heart that these are not their core wants is a damned liar and I don't care what others think of that.
Dominion and breeding? Sounds like more fascism - an evil that also resides at the core of the human heart, Nietzsche's "Blond Beast". I hate to break it to you, but human beings (the vast majority at least) no longer live in the wild. We have learned how to control the environment that we live in (and subdue those parts of nature that we don't control) and in doing so have changed the requirements of survival. From this it follows that mastering peaceful coexistence is more important to our survival now than mastering physical conflict; However, if society collapses so too that equation.
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Finally, if not terrorists, something else will eventually come to cull the herd. Perhaps one day (soon, even) America will have the dictatorship its leaning towards. Or perhaps another force altogether will come to the land of plenty. Terrorists were just the example.
Sounds like blatant fear mongering to me. The most likely culprit for culling the herd will be disease, most likely bird flu or similar.
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Weakening humanity by making them soft and docile will only create a greater gap between those of us who recognize and embrace our core desires and those who resist them. And I assure you, we who aim mindfully towards superiority can only win.
Pandemic diseases takes the strong as well as the weak. At any rate, I don't undestand why, if you truly believe the things you say, would you give away the plan? If you "aim mindfully towards superiority" (a whiff of racism too?), why are you announcing it to the world? Why are you warning those that would oppose you? Don't you want a "soft and docile" population that you can more easily control?