[Mb-civic] A Sense Of Futurelessness

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Re:  A Sense Of Futurelessness


Haase wrote:

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Well Sartre said hell is other people
but dont despair too much
doesnt socrates basically say in a famous speech
that the world is going to hell in a handbasket?
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1. Although Sartre might be right in one sense of the matter, as there are
truly some actual humans who tend to delight in making Life miserable for
whomever and whatever they can, he must never have had dark spirit-like
flying creatures sit on his bed late at night and murmur "Why can't I screw
this guy like I can screw the others...?"

2.  To despair too much has never been good when one is trying to best
oblivion and its servants.  The person who wrote a previous post enquiring
something like "whatever happened to walks in the woods, etc etc etc..." was
basically right.  Those are the (natural) things that keep people sane in
the midst of the madness.  If they don't occasionally re-create themselves,
they are drawn into the black hole of endless victimization, or better put,
the waiting room to the entrance of "Hell" (trust me, the magazine choices
there suck bigtime).  However, therein lay the quandry, as in Ian's post
about 70-80 percent of earth's population have been and are living in a
basic living hell already, if one thinks about it constantly, one goes mad
(some people), however, if one stops thinking about it, one begins (some) to
feel guilty.  Regardless, whether despairing or being full of joy, at least
trying to do something to help those who need it in the face of apparently
insurmountable odds reinforced by the malicious wills of those who helped to
create such devastation of humanity and earth's creatures and resources, is
at least something to do inbetween programming one's vcr.  However, on the
other hand, tears are all some people have ever known, and there is no one
present to instruct them otherwise.

3.  Socrates would fit right in in a crucial role in today's Modern American
Propaganda movement, led by tyrants and populated by apparently some of the
most ignorant people in the world who will believe just about anyone and
anything as they themselves are just too lazy (or too? busy) to do any form
of research, validation or investigation.  He would speak his mind, some
people would get together in a back room and make some plans, and then offer
him a Budweiser laced with strichnine.


The more things change, the more they stay the same.



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