Americans believe that the normal state of things is not-violence…
Do you suppose that’s true? That that’s why we have such absurdities as people climbing in zoo cages to cuddle the animals? It would explain a lot of things.
It would explain, for instance, why the writer of that article is able to regurgitate a century and a half of Socialist propaganda and get commenters calling it “insightful”. Two centuries of modern capitalism have resulted in such ease, such comfort, such near-total safety and security, that Americans (at least, some Americans) don’t just take it for granted but consider it the normal state of affairs, so much so that they are ready and willing to smash the structures that created it, in the confident “knowledge” that the safety and prosperity will remain because they are “normal”.
And that’s sad.
An acquaintance on a USENET group says that, since the future belongs to those who show up for it, the future of the world is to belong to Mormons and Muslims. When I see that sort of thing, I wonder if he might not be right.
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28 September 2009 at 4:34 pm
A Second Hand Conjecture » Uncommon insight
[...] The Saddest Lede on the Internet Today. Says Ric Locke on his new blog. And what was the lede? “Americans believe that the normal state of things is not-violence.” Do you suppose that’s true? That that’s why we have such absurdities as people climbing in zoo cages to cuddle the animals? It would explain a lot of things. [...]
29 September 2009 at 7:34 pm
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That’s not sad, it’s stupid. The human condition leads to violence, as most thinking people know.
29 September 2009 at 7:48 pm
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I should not have put it that way, sounds like one of my pet peeves “as most people know” should be replaced by as any student of history knows. Thank you.
6 October 2009 at 5:20 pm
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[...] actually from last week, but too good of a comment not to highlight, even tardily [Via Synova]: Americans believe that the normal state of things is [...]