@Doc you have achieved transcendence

You are everything and nothing. Now take your place amongst the divine hahaha

"He who starts seeking shall continue. And when he continues, he shall find. When he finds, he will be in awe, and then -master of everything". Logion 2, Gospel According to Thomas.

A buddhist walks up to a hot dog stand in new york and says: "make me one with everything." The hot dog man does. The Buddhist pays him, but receives no change.
"Where is my change?" said the Buddhist.
"Dont you know?" answered the hot dog man.
"Change comes from within."

> @stevesirag I agree on the whole but am not sure about the part with not opposing something makes you that thing. If that were the case, I know a person who has some splaining to do. Stand back, stand by on that one.
@Zuluzeit

I'm no proposing a general rule that you are what you don't oppose. In the case of Antifa, however, the summer-long campaign of nightly political violence carefully ignored by dems in media, Congress, governors and mayors office is telling. Local police so fed up they stopped obeying orders to go and help. Astonishing complicity in violence by omission of their duty. As for your Trump remark, he has vocally opposed white supremacy over 80 times on record, it's an idiotic claim media keep trotting out.

I know of no place or field where the whites are supreme. Defending that position has become harder the last 200 years.

Should be easy to denounce.

in fact, you could argue that "white inferiorist" would make more sense.

If the media spends the next four years demanding Biden denounce pedophilia I'll say they're treating both sides equally

"we are a weak and feeble, soon to be extinct, useless creed."

technically, he would be a hebephile. He is sniffing Tanner stage 3 from what I can tell.

I don't think he's a pedophile. The point is that Trump is also not a white supremacist. It's just the attack vector dems chose early on to keep race forefront in politics.

These are narratives, yes. If you are looking for anything but focus group politics and narratives in the modern political life, I suggest you are better off visiting a museum.

This is the age of the commercial. Where you create demand.

The ideology is dead, politics are now equal to reality shows.

Remember, you were given the sponge to wipe away the horizon when God died.

This is the canvas that is left.

Where everyone can draw what they like.

I'm not looking for it but I am demanding it. We're not that stupid, and each of us should abandon ad hominem and straw man arguments and return to rational discource.

Optimism is cowardice.

If you remove the glasses, you will see reality.

The truth is that, in some ways, this IS rational discourse. Focus groups determine what people think, and the talking head gets fed the analysis.

Some have noted that the focus group feedloop needs to be more and more frequent as the opinions of the public seem to be shifting faster and faster.

You could suspect that is circling the drain.

But I can sadly not see in four dimensions yet. Im trying to acquire the skill. It seems to be possible.

It is said so, at least.

I hate social media and the fact audiences are so catered to. It removes fundamental aspects of life in general and makes people less open minded in my honest opinion.

"No one wants to stumble across contentious ideas, this is clearly a negative thing."

@stevesirag My point was that something not being denounced to your satisfaction doesn't make it a component of some bizarre fantasy of a "The Left" Megazord. Nor does it imbue anyone with the nature of the undenounced entity.

Left unity is a myth.

I know quite a few EZLN leftists, and believe me when I say that they don't like the modern left neither, nor do they like the current idea of Antifa being for red communism.

They sort of had their image stolen in that regard.

@Maw I'm very interested to hear a rough sketch of what you think balkanization would look like here. I'm having a difficult time conceptualizing it in practical application, try as I might. I feel like I'm missing something. Like would there be little island citystates floating in a red sea, geographically? Would states still exist or would they coalesce in clumps? I'm genuinely curious as to the vision of that but have no adequate reference for this corollary.

I would also like to know who would play the parts that Russia, the EU, Saudis and US/NATO played in the Balkans war.

@Maw Left unity is a myth, indeed, but in the european theatre, you do have overarching structures dating back from the "einheitsfront"-system, transformed by the "New left" into a modern day plethora.

Largely responsible for the cancel culture here. The new Catholics parting language into acceptable and unacceptable and handing down excommunications.

@Doc My understanding from my associates on the right is that the Democrat citystates would immediately and literally sell themselves to China, as per the secret agenda all along.

@Zuluzeit In a civil war you buy your SAMs from whomever is selling. If it is Ghadaffi, so be it.

And Russia would curate the Trumptopian freefolk.

Weird your ping didn't tag me @Zuluzeit . In regards to the idea of balkanization: It'd be extremely messy. It would likely sever ties to the executive branch and simply retain state power and legislation as most states already do. Most of the federal law is covered under state law as it is.

It would require a ton of statuette rewriting though.