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Re: living on lies....
Posted by MJaY (Guest) - Wednesday, August 23 2006, 2:49:29 (CEST)
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...who says I have to? You mean I can't say "the bridge is out" without offering to build a new bridge? You don't think people, speeding towards that fallen bridge, are first of all going to be grateful they got the warning in time? Don't you think that after all those people stop from going over the edge, thereby killing themselves, that we might not all of us come up with another plan for crossing over?

^^--- That is the problem. You put too much trust in the herd's initiative and ingenuinity. You presume awareness of the broken bridge and its consequences, you presume their actions when reaching it, all together disregarding such things such as natural human ignorance and need to be part of a collective, even if it is a misguided/ill-informed one. In reality, they will rather cross a bridge to apparently nowhere, rather than halt before a broken bridge. People seek progression, although more often than not, the progression is in fact regression, or some kind of socially sideways movement that doesn't benefit anybody except the people in the front who are leading them/pulling the strings. Maybe my general view of humanity is pessimistic, but this is only what my reality has led me to percieve.


...Seems to me in a crisis, which if you agreed at all with what I was saying and weren't merely paying lip service, the first thing you have to do is point OUT the crisis! A solution can come later...but so long as you're all busily driving to nowhere...there's not much point in offering any alternative....anyone who WOULD listen to an alternative is busy making just the sorts of observations I am and not, like you, thinking to weaken those observations by pointing out that I have no "better idea"...of course I do....but I'm not a preacher or a social reformer...YOU come up with an alternative and I'll see what it's worth.

^^^--- Well, it doesn't take someone of extremely high integrity or intelligence to notice lots of things are wrong or inefficient. C'mon now, pointing the finger is effortless, surely you know that? An individual can do more than this, well, one of a high calibur anyway. It is more admirable for someone to put their theories into action.. It seems to me as time passes, the world has less and less people that do this, and more and more critics, so congratulations..?!


...there isn't anything in my contract that says I have to offer solutions...and that doesn't make my observations invalid....if someone is trying to get a pill into yout stomach by shoving it up your arse....I don't havre to ofer a better way as the price for getting them to stop shoving it...I'm sure all you'd care about would be to convince them that is NOT the best way...a better way could possibly then be thought of...besides, there are no answers, only better questions.

^^^--- There are answers, we just haven't arrived at them yet. The better questions just get us closer. You have to look at the bigger picture sometime eh? The whole pill/arse thing is an amusing metaphor, but it doesn't justify observing as brilliant by itself. What I said before applies here too..


...no he's not...a critic is not a track coach...he is not a jogging instructor...a critic is a critic...which, by the way, does not mean to find fault...to "critique" means to evaluate...not condemn. I can certainly criticize the way a brain surgeon operates, using a baseball bat and a piece of broken glass, without first having to go to medical school myself.

^^^--- I'm sure you know the meaning of 'evaluate' is assessing the good and bad points of something.. So condemnation is included. (I've never heard the word 'criticise' employed to distinguish something of worth, have you? It seems negative to me..) Anyway, I wont be that smug, its only my second post.


...I'm sure you're a Christian...do you have to be a better Devil to criticize the Devil? Why do you find fault with the poor fellow if you don't know what is involved with being the Devil? dgsh

^^^--- Future reference, no. I'm not a Christian. Nor do I belong to any religion. I just see organised religion as a massive controlling entity of which I'm not particularly fond of. Its focus on preservation is much in conflict with my ideals of empowerment.

As for the devil metaphor.. My great friend Nietzsche once said 'He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.'

Regards.

Max



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