Utopian (D)Ummie thinks the world is a more dangerous place today than yesterday, needs hugs and happy thoughts.
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SoLeftIAmRight (2,269 posts)
Why I think the world is a much more dangerous place today...than I thought it was yesterday.
I am an Utopian. My thoughts are clouded more by what can and should be than what is. Too much science fiction literature, Star Trek syndrome. The world as one people mystified by the lines drawn on maps dividing us from them.
I watched the Republican debate late night and was horrified by the fight over who was the most crazy. It penetrated my thinking in a way that it never truly has before.
So, I wake this morning knowing that if here, in this open and information rich society, we can produce people like those debating last night there can only be much worse in places that close themselves from reality.
I still believe that most people of the earth would live in peace and with peaceful leaders things would be much better. But, even here we have the Bundy gang and and many other assorted nuts, many ever more dangerous.
Fear, fear, fear, did they get me?
I need a hug and some happy thoughts.
Star trek syndrome? Excuse me (D)Ummie, but the federation in the star trek universe had whats called the "prime directive", which was basically a principle of non-interference, and also a "temporal prime directive" which means no rewriting history.
You (D)Ummies like nothing better than to do both - interfere
and rewrite history, and you enjoy it even more when you can get government to do both at your behest.
**** you and your need for a hug, you clueless shitbird.
2. Erich Bloodaxe BSN (13,340 posts)
Human nature is a mixed bag.
We're born highly malleable, and what we become is crucially influenced by our early interactions with our environment. It's easy enough to turn out hateful, greedy, entitled humans just as it is loving, sharing, selfless ones. Like physical abuse, mental abuse is perpetuated from generation to generation.
For once a (D)Ummie has a point. If they could just self identify as " hateful, greedy, entitled humans" that they are instead of calling everyone else that, that would be great.
BlueJazz (25,223 posts)
4. I understand. One big thing that too many people are not aware of is: It's the Sociopath in our society/societies that do the most damage. The political and business/banking industry is infested with them. I'm saying this because they grab the headlines and the hearts of people (in a bad way).
We kind people vastly outnumber them but they get the attention.
You have the "we" and the "them" confused, but you got the sociopath part right.
Congratulations, heres your participation trophy:


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