Life on the outside is just as bad, but there are a few things out here that are nice to be able to indulge in. What's your problem with currency? Without it, how would we function, how would we value the worth of a thing? A gift economy at this stage, wouldn't be feasible. A controlled economy is inefficient and everyone suffers. Capitalism creates growth, wealth and raises the standard of living. Nonetheless a social democratic republic would serve the people better, as it provides a safety net, yet does not hinder growth.
I don't know what you think is so great about Miley Cyrus. She's not even that good-looking. She's legal in all great fifty states, so I don't see how anyone is a hypocrite for ogling her.
The Left and the Right are the same thing. The Left is full of shit, and only care if they are in power, then everything is okey-dokey, even if nothing's changed. The Right is pretty honest about their intentions. The thing is their intentions are terrible. Obama can keep engaging the Afghan war, post tens of thousands of soldiers in Iraq, and bomb Libya's ground and air forces, and by what right? Does Libya not have the right to quell rebellion, these "protestors" are rebels.
The North still claims moral superiority in the the US Civil War, when they attacked the South for simply suceeding from the Union. Now what if Britian had decided to support the South, as was the prevailing notion. We would not claim Britian was humanitarian, we would have gone to war with Britian once again.
I don't believe internationally-backed NATO-led bombing of Libya, and the current situation in Iraq count as wars. It's really just one big war, The War on Terrorism. It's foolish to call us a Christian nation. We are a secular nation, whose very existence and wealth requires force to preserve the globalist economy. Not that I think that is right, but it's the reality of things. Any politician that claims that God has anything to do with it, is lying through his teeth.
I read about the Oneida Community. I wouldn't use it as a great example of free love living. It really was a means for men to have free sexual access with any woman they wanted. I read a diary entry of a woman there, that was unaware of her sexual rights, who would submit to any man sexually, due to her ignorance. She raised her concern with an elder and he advised her that she had a right to refuse sexual contact. This was after years of living on the commune, and it was the first time anyone clarified her rights. Seems like one of those Jim Jones-type cults rather than a true free love commune.
The hysteria over pedophilia is astonishing. Not that you are even pedophile. Rachel was 14, a biological adult. Technically you may be an ephebophile, or attracted to young pubescent girls. But those are all social constructs. Adolescence is just an artificial construct to repress young adults. There are theories that the age of consent laws are unconscious attempts to seperate sexually attractive females from the mating game, thus giving older women more opportunities to reproduce. In many countries, even wealthy western ones, your relationship with Rachel wouldn't even been a crime. Muslims revere a man, Muhammad, who consummated his marriage with a child at the age of 9. I think that may be abusive, but no one even blinks an eye.
I just read I, Robot. Isaac Asimov is my favorite SF writer. I'm sure you appreciated the ending with the machines deciding that humanity would better be an agrarian or perhaps hunter-gatherer society. Not that it is determined whether the machines truly decide this but is seems to fit well. Humans are meant to live in societies of perhaps a 150, that it is how we evolved. The massive social change of the last 10,000 years does not undo millions of years of evolution. Or perhaps I am engaging the naturalist fallacy. The brain is very plastic and flexible, so perhaps all kinds of functional societies are possible.
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The North still claims moral superiority in the the US Civil War, when they attacked the South for simply suceeding from the Union. Now what if Britian had decided to support the South, as was the prevailing notion. We would not claim Britian was humanitarian, we would have gone to war with Britian once again.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
KJV Leviticus 18:29
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
I'm afraid these Ugandans are well within their scripture. Any ancient text will be full of ignorant statements.
- William Ralph Inge