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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
We're even told that we shouldn't solve our problems in direct ways, but have things solve our problems for us. Examples: You're fat, take a pill or try a miracle diet. You're depressed because you aren't living the way you'd like, so take a pill. Of course, there's always taking alcohol to solve our problems. Then there's Viagra, plastic surgery, and the general belief that any problem can fixed by buying something. And if the doesn't work, sue someone or some business.
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Have so soma. "a gram a day keeps.." aww nuts i forget the rest.
as for this thread, its too vagure for me to really figure out where i stand on it. the first thing i thought when i saw the title was, "alright, well its time to bring back the gladitorial combat again I see" because of how society used to tend to have a motherly (pussy) instinct to shield people from violence and stuff (censorship like "r" ratings at the movies). But society has gotten more violent and the media is getting away with showing more and more graphic images in the media these days. So it wouldn't seem that society has been pussified in that way.
BUt the thread obviously didn't even go in that direction. nuts.
the thing with the nurse suing to get her job back? It sounds like one individual taking advantage of laws meant to protect employees from abusive employers. A pretty singular event that recurs all the time because people are lazy, and will often work very hard to protect the right to work as lazily as possible. Off course thats not really a "right" as it is a "reality of human nature"
i thinky society has been pussified by how most people just accept the way things are these days and have almost zero participation in their government. Instead most people are only concerned with their own individual problems and not the greater problems of our world. a, "i'm only one person, what could I possibly do" mentality.
i'll stop rambling now because i still really have no idea where this thread was going.