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

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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

I don't think it's necessary to provoke it.

It's going to happen on its own, given time.

Because of how badly adjusted we are to abundance.

I'll agree with most of your statement, but I believe envy is the greater threat in that respect, that which drives altruists to state imposition and genocide. Clearly, it is the wealthy, who are most generous among our society, given their wealth accumulation, and if they wish to be charitable, a Western tradition for millennia, that's permissible. However, imposition via State certainly is not. I'll agree there appears to be a general propensity for one to now feel shame, throughout our society, by not sacrificing your last dollar to those less fortunate, which certainly aligns with your observation. Even I feel this way, whenever I'm asked to engage in an act of charity - there's almost an awkward air of expectation and demand, @Miniature Menace.

Let’s hope it doesn’t turn into a North American purge

I think it’s envy that drives us more than anything today but I do believe we had pride at the wheel for years

Moral indignation and entitlement provides a comfortable nest for envy.

The sense of victimhood, or being a champion for victims.

I prefer nationalism to supranationalism, but not ultranationalism

Indeed, @Miniature Menace.

They have taken something which was once regarded as morally reprehensible, theft, and turned it into a virtue, via victim/oppressor narratives and utopian lies.

Communism or enablism as I enjoy calling it

The virtuous tendency of those you reference, to champion thus harm the most those they obligate themselves to, certainly does reinforce the entitlement, which gives way to the motive to industrialize victimhood.

It's a cycle.

The gift that keeps giving.

Blm or the ira could be good examples

Antifa is world of forms example

Will saying "Kaczynski was right about some things" get you on a Watchlist?

the IRA at least had a tangible target

Maybe

Which IRA?

You kind of need a tangible target, if you want to blow it up. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Irish Republican Army is the one I’m referring to

I hope so. These days, getting censored in some way is like a badge of honor @Omar_The_OMAP