Interesting. I put forth an
opinion told everyone it was just
opinion and how I saw things.
In the process there is fingerpointing and personal attacks between member (don't need to tell you who).
There is the "give it time, TFP just on a downturn", "too much media, no beliefs and such" and the "I look for leaders who don't compromise.... Moderates get attacked" threads.
Everyone is just as qualified to their opinion as me, that's a given.
Noone offers solutions except:
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Go outside, play some frisbee. Things will be better!
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Which may very well be the solution. Perhaps we have taken everything so seriously that we panic when our values or personal beliefs are so much as questioned.
AGAIN THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, IT IS NEITHER RIGHT NOR WRONG, IT IS JUST MY OBSERVATION AND IS NOT MEANT AS ANYTHING ELSE BUT MY OWN OPINION.
I think one of the downfalls to all the technology is the fact that we become more insular, we are now able to seek out those who most resemble us and give us the false courage and beliefs that only our opinions, values and ideas are the answers.
No longer do we have to face our neighbors and work out compromises, no longer do we have to go to PTA meetings, or getting involved.
We don't, we have our instant involvement through here, where we can be anybody we want, have whatever degrees we want, and say we are anything..... who knows differently? Noone.
Thus, we go to jobs we don't like, we get traffic jams, we get shitty service from people who could care less about their jobs and barely make a living, and so on. We get home read the newspaper, websites and mags, watch the news, whatever, and get barraged with news and issues we cannot change in any way.
We get slammed with negativity in every way shape and form:
The shows we watch are wrong and studies show make us more violent or hateful to women or....
The water we drink is contaminated because the Big Industry had a spill, but the spill was caused partly by protesters outside protesting that company's ethics.....
We have kids that aren't learning and schools close to bankruptcy but we vote down levies that can help them, because we hear of all the waste that we truly don't know if it exists or not..... but we are told that by the people we trust on a national scale, who give diddly about our communities and care more about their ratings then they do about the country.
We see people having to live on shitty wages, those workers are at fault because there are better jobs and it's their fault they don't have the education..... but if someone isn't paid what they believe they need to live on, they are only going to put forth that much energy and loyalty, especially when raises are 25 cents in a year and so on.
Factories are closing down to go overseas, but those workers were at fault, because they knew those jobs weren't going to last and they're pay is tohigh and so on..... yet these people because of the wages had disposable income to keep small shops open, to pay taxes and to keep the economy moving forward without too much debt.
So where does all this leave us?
It is my contention and belief that we seek out those that share our beliefs and refuse to find compromise because we are able to be who we want, and say what we want and find people who will agree with us, to support our views and those who don't we can bully, bring out made up credentials and not have to worry about ever being found out.
In essence, we can control everything we need and want to here, that we can't do in our own lives. We can have a voice here, that in our lives because of being beaten down, stressed out, feeling hopeless and so on, we don't have.
Therefore, we don't have to compromise, try to envision what would work better, try to help each other..... and then this cyber made up ego takes shape because we find media figures who can stroke it and tell us more of what we want to hear, truth be damned, and we don't have to worry about local issues, we don't have to look at the factories leaving, the taxes lost that we, taxpayers, will have to absorb somehow....... we don't have to care about anything.... because we have our views justified every time we turn around..... we have the pats on the back, our egos stroked and our views held up as the only solutions needed.... everyone else is an asshat, mmonbat, whatever......