They know how to handle a hoe

Have smarter people take the helm and stop acting like Finland is Poland

@Miniature Menace, indeed, as it relates to altruism, but it always grows into a menace on its own, without much of any interference cultivating it.

@RAM II or France

Nonetheless, it is true academia is polluted with Communist materials.

Imagine going to Canada and thinking this might take year I don’t need a jacket pfft

Really napoleon and hitler listen to Momgolia and put on yer coat

@Jeremy yeah, but no guns

So....

It was either the University of Michigan or Minnesota, whose library page I visited a few months ago, only to discover all of their recommended reading materials on their index was related to feminism, communism, and black marxist writers, such as Cedric Robinson.

Then you have the University of Chicago.

Don't even get me started.

That place is a Communist factory.

Cause they aren’t smart enough to use their phones their always on so the go to the library

It's an INEFFECTUAL communist factory

@Jeremy Basically, my observation is that this is for the moment a perhaps unavoidable consequence of prosperity. Without the urgent scarcity and imminent threat narratives, folks are often unmotivated to confront parasitic behaviors, or to resist indulging in narcissistic displays of token charity. This is unlikely to be addressed until not addressing it becomes credibly lethal.

They can't do anything except bitch

It’s hard to take that as a serious statement because I’m imagining you pfp talking

Indeed, Menace. Philosopher Immanuel Kant once wrote of Envy that,
```…a propensity to view the well-being of others with distress, even though it does not detract from one’s own. [It is] a reluctance to see our own well-being overshadowed by another’s because the standard we use to see how well off we are is not the intrinsic worth of our own well-being but how it compares with that of others. [It] aims, at least in terms of one’s wishes, at destroying other’s good fortune.```

Basically, doing things which allow them to indulge the fantasy that they are morally virtuous is like a kind of drug, and doing things which, within the context of their peer group, could be construed as morally "unfashionable" threatens that self-image, that pleasant lie, and so they will continue to do it until they can no longer afford to.

Peace keeping

This is something which will follow us to the end of *human* civilization.

Amen

And that we've allowed the moral premise to be defined by subversive conmen is a further complication.

Ramen

And, Ben, the reason they're only able to bitch, for the most part, is because they're placate, mostly overweight, behind digital screens all day. I often see technology as a precursor to enslavement, though much good comes from technological advancement of course, but I suppose it works both ways.

Devices are our advancement and our devaluation

I believe, perhaps after the fashion demonstrated in the Mouse Utopia Experiments, human society needs some kind of struggle or hardship, some strife against to refine its merits, and extinguish maladaptive behaviors. That the further we depart from such immediate hardship, the less clear a benchmark of fitness there exists, and the faster we disintegrate into some kind of degeneracy.

Even driving some people into more primal archetypes

Just like Ted Kaczynski once warned us

And the collapse of our civilization will eventually yield this strife, should we fail to adapt to its absence.

A greater evil drives many to a blade and shield for humans

Or a Mossberg

😎

What your proposing is we prefer to have constant death and loss

Too bad we broke the atom

We need failure. We need terminal failure. And we need that failure to reflect the adaptations necessary to navigate the natural world.

So what would that be

Not that this is good, but that this is the mechanism by which our behavior and nature has been shaped for millions of years, and we're woefully ill prepared to exist without it.

Emp

I do love that humans are designed to overcome