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re: We are all addicts: Today's Youth Are Depressed, Here's Why...
Posted on 5/6/17 at 11:14 am to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 5/6/17 at 11:14 am to SlowFlowPro
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which creates the bigger issue: exponential increases in the gaps between the growing underclass and static middle/upper classes
As a student of history, it always ends the same way.
Rivers of blood and cities burning. Bodies piled high and buried in mass graves. The only way to avert that crisis is for something like war or famine or disease to kill so many off that the whole paradigm kind of resets.
But we've outdone ourselves. We're not only keeping the weak alive (far past any good it will do), we are subsidizing the breeding of those who wouldn't make it in the survival arena on their own.
We are feeding places that have FAR outbred their carrying capacity.
In all our efforts to "do good", we are spitting in the face of cruel nature and creating problems which will come back to haunt us tenfold.
In all our wisdom, we are unwise,
Posted on 5/6/17 at 11:15 am to fr33manator
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As a student of history, it always ends the same way.
Rivers of blood and cities burning. Bodies piled high and buried in mass graves. The only way to avert that crisis is for something like war or famine or disease to kill so many off that the whole paradigm kind of resets.
But we've outdone ourselves. We're not only keeping the weak alive (far past any good it will do), we are subsidizing the breeding of those who wouldn't make it in the survival arena on their own.
We are feeding places that have FAR outbred their carrying capacity.
In all our efforts to "do good", we are spitting in the face of cruel nature and creating problems which will come back to haunt us tenfold.
In all our wisdom, we are unwise,
Could not have said it better myself.
This post was edited on 5/6/17 at 11:16 am
Posted on 5/6/17 at 11:30 am to fr33manator
Here, here!
That's one of the reasons I look forward to rationed care. We won't be spending trillions on futile care.
That's one of the reasons I look forward to rationed care. We won't be spending trillions on futile care.
Posted on 5/6/17 at 3:34 pm to fr33manator
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we are subsidizing the breeding of those who wouldn't make it in the survival arena on their own.
Well let's make damn sure we don't give them any sex education to teach them about birth control, or any contraceptives in case they learn about it on their own, and for the sake of all that is holy NEVER let them have an abortion if they accidentally get pregnant.
This post was edited on 5/6/17 at 3:35 pm
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