Extra! Extra! KindaGamey does it again!
Strikes innocent thread with undeserved, crazy, long-ass rant!
I think I’m going to collect crazy ass rants and link them here in this thread.
Sometimes I tell other people what I wanted to tell you.
You know how it is.
I’ll post this one and come back later and add more ranty links if I feel like it.
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from:
Study Finds Conservatives Are More Easily Disgusted
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message809846/pg2#12500420
KindaGamey:
Re: Study Finds Conservatives Are More Easily Disgusted
conservatives also have more nightmares than liberals.
i think that this is all pretty telling.
not that unabashed liberal thinking is the answer, either.
we will all meet in the center.
on everything.
the races, religion, cultures, pro-choice/life, art versus offense, freedom versus fascism, competition versus compassion.
(this part of the post is optional, so don’t bitch about the length/ranting!)
republicans are right that too much centralized power/hierarchical power is bad and wasteful and we should decentralize authority and responsibility, but democrats are right that we should support every single person including those who you all deem lazy or poor or illegal, because the hidden costs of ignoring those that need our help, need housing, need education, need food and clean water, far outweighs the cost of helping them.
and i don’t just mean emotional costs; i mean the problems with crime, how much we pay to jail the criminal, the kind of negative education a criminal receives in jail versus the positive value from reformation, the problems with companies not having a productive workforce of educated people, the problem with voters not being educated enough to take personal responsibility for their governments and making poor decisions based on marketing appeal, the cost of the uninsured treated at hospitals all over the country, the cost of making medical preventative maintenance prohibitive by charging for it, the cost of killing ourselves with unregulated food quality for fitness and health, the cost of the uninsured in traffic accidents, the personal shame you feel when you look at a homeless person, the littering and filth of those who were not taught to think of their environments as parts of themselves, the lack of compassion for their fellow humans because it was never demonstrated to them…
all of this weighs on society. all of this is an underlying stress of society that we all carry with us all the time, though some can ignore it better than others. it causes many ills for many people. to ignore it is folly. it isn’t about “keepin’ MY money” and “only gettin what you’re worth” like conservatives preach – we are all worth far more than we are told, we are all far more capable than we even know we can be, and were we not using these taxes to pamper gilded cages (like paying interest on the debt, the war machine, rich tax evaders vs the taxable weight of the public, etc.) we could feed, clothe, house, educate everyone (and i mean truly educate, as in, teaching people to reason and learn and be a moral presence in the world, not just memory machines.)
What could we do?
what you want in tax breaks could come as a natural result of a healthier economy for everyone. what you get in tax raises are a direct result of everyone living in competition. military budgets could be drastically slashed. as populations are released from national bondage we would no longer pursue our ‘national’ self interests in defiance of any other region of the world (because as global citizens we would act in concert) and there would never be a population untainted by your own kind that one could bomb or threaten for being in personal opposition to you, spiritually, behaviorally, or otherwise. every geographic location would have a full range of diversity as travel could be free and unrestricted.
We could teach people to defend themselves and saturate a certain percentage of the population with public defenders, civilian cops/military, who are just people living their lives who have been qualified mentally and morally stable and will be well trained to handle abhorrent behavioral situations and will enjoy martial arts and some medical training. Actual cops would be a smaller and more specialized function. Profit could be an openly discussed agreement between consumer and company. Companies could be conglomerates of regular people with common interests ruled by a regularly rotating committee of its employees and hierarchical presidencies would be a thing of the past. Salary could be equivalent with no position vaulted over another, or one could barter the willingness to submit themselves to more stress/responsibility in exchange for choicer accommodations and lifestyle or one could submit themselves to no personal responsibility at all (no job or service or productive benefit to society at all, ever) for slightly more budgeted conditions (though still clean, sanitary, environmentally adaptive, etc.) Leadership roles for non-producers whose social ability is to make effective use of producers; counsel; and alleviate personal conflicts, would be considered on par with the production role, not considered a superior. Marketing and advertising would be accessed voluntarily by people who are seeking information about a product, not ever forced on anyone who does not wish to see it. Marketing will use its opportunity not to trick the consumer into wanting its product, but to honestly communicate and educate the consumer on the benefits of the product; because, unlike today, products just would not exist anymore if they exhibited the slightest dishonesty in their claims. They wouldn’t need to lie because they would have true pride in their products and their products would be the best; in usability and instinct-driven interfaces, reliability, and functionally. The role of investor would be the role of allocating all available resources toward functions which are most beneficial to humanity. The will of a far larger base of the population will exert its hand on the functions of government. Besides the allocations of material resources our strengths and benefits will also be measured, and we will be able to select a function that makes us the most happy and also serves the greatest purpose, and those two things will be inseparable. If you desire to change functions then we will assume that as part of the consciousness collective you willed it for a reason and therefore you will be reallocated. We will have a large database of needed functions, some ongoing, some immediate, and people will step forward to help where they can. They wont be “leaving a job” to serve, our purpose WILL BE to serve and this will not be forced upon us, we will do it for the gratitude and benefit of living in a beautifully creative and stimulating healthy educated and productive society that excludes no one that wishes to be a part of it.
Internet function would be distributed over every computer like a giant P2P network so that no one central machine could ever be tampered with or destroyed or threatened, viruses would be immediately quarantined and immediately removed. Equally, the government would also be free from attack because it would be the people and there would be as many smart enough and willing enough to take the helm of their regional collective if necessary. People who are allocated voluntary government functions would not be uprooted from their local environments. They would be distributed like a network. With personal profit and gain motives removed there is no benefit to politics unless one was truly invested in the fluid operation of social and economic operations (economic operations meaning, the exchange and coordination of service and resource to benefit all mankind) and it would never be one’s only career; each person would bring their own specialties, interests, and understanding to their temporary experience with governance. Secrecy in matters of governance or corporations does not exist and wouldn’t need to; the financial operations of the company or leadership* roles helping the coordination and magnetic alignment of the people is itself made up of a large segment of the people, it can not and would not have a reason to hide something from itself. Corporations will not have a reason to harm the public because they are themselves the public. They will not have a reason to damage the environment because they themselves depend on the environment. All news and entertainment media will educate to the fullest extent that they can, utilizing repetition as a learning tool not to associate you with a brand, not by being forced a morality or opinion, but because it is the right thing to do and that the people are hungry for it and educated enough to receive it and thrive off of it.
(* sorry, this word ‘leadership’ will be replaced with one that represents an equal partner in an operation who values the skills of various producers and is tasked with coordinating their skillsets to work towards a particular goal.)
Software companies wouldn’t spend millions on creating products in the form of games or applications, they would create tools by which we could fashion, update, and advance the uses of, our own digital products. They would facilitate the creation of tools; outgrowths of the user-driven movements like open-source, wikipedia, youtube, Second Life, or Will Wright’s Spore.
There is no security at any airport or fast light-rail station or automated personal transport hub. None. We agree as an educated and coordinated global society to cast off the rigid security measures of the past in favor of personal freedom, despite our knowledge of the possible consequences. We accept the risks of terrorism, chemical attack, or missile bombardment, in exchange for personal freedom. We know that we cannot be defeated not because we would rather die than submit to the will of another, but because we accept that as the one function of universal consciousness we are life, and if life is extinguished entirely we would just inhabit a new location in the universe elsewhere to continue the experiment of being bound through manifestation; perhaps we could come back as beetles. There is no one to oppose our ideology because we do not impose it upon anyone, there is no one that cannot join us and receive the benefits therein and express his/her opinion through methods of participation and communication, so there is no reason to attack for feeling stifled, for feeling powerless against a greater entity, for feeling afraid that you cannot eat, or clothe yourself, or house yourself, or that you aren’t smart enough, or that you don’t work hard enough, or think deep enough thoughts, or that someone will judge you, or criticize you, or think less of you, or someone will shoot you if you don’t have a gun, or somehow a soul is wasted if a fetus’ growth is terminated when consciousness is the actual stuff of all matter, and that suffering doesn’t serve a purpose, carries no message, has no lesson to be learned. There is no shyness as there is no fear or secrecy on a personal level and the lack of judgment will be sensed by those of us with delicate receptors and we will be released from our verbal prison, and there is no fear of other humans as the whole society blankets you, it is protecting itself and everyone has your best interests at heart. Any abhorrent behavior is treated early on before it ever becomes a serious problem.
They are you and you them and we are all a forgivable collection of different attributes and learned experiences and our conflicts are born of the inability to look beyond ourselves to see the interconnectedness of all things; for both the material realist and the spiritual wanderer this can be a true and guiding heading. No one will doubt that the interconnectedness is truth because the efficiency of the system and the happiness of the people and the creative and technological marvels of a free and intelligent public will stand as living proof that to work in concert with all people is to work to one’s own benefit.
Go earth!
