@Zero Sum
Not at all, I kind of alluded to that when I said this:
But yea, agreed, the level of inequality in America is absurd.
I don’t much like Christianity or biblical verses as an atheist but I’ll go a head and use an allegory here, how lucky am I to have been born in a virtual Sodom and Gomorrah?
Fuck my life! 
Here I am at the epicenter with front row tickets!
When Jehovah asked Cain where his brother was, and Cain replied: how should I know, am I my brother’s keeper???
Americans sided with Cain.
Am I my brother’s keeper???
Uncle Sam: hellllll, no!
All I want is the opportunity to get some buck shot in the face of Uncle Sam. Daydreams
And now the ‘3rd world’, BRIC and even Africa are modeling themselves after America, as America modeled itself after Sodom and Gomorrah.
Ruthless and reckless economic competition and exploitation in the pursuit of material and hedonic prosperity, at any cost, leaving the lower classes, which now includes much-most of the former middle class, billions of people in their wake and thousands of species extinct.
The clock is ticking, it’s only a matter of time before the whole shithosue goes up in flames, and nature, which increasingly comprises those who’ve been left behind, the exploited, the downtrodden, undoes and reclaims man’s precious ‘progress’.
My calculations is between now and 2025. 2020 is also an important year for Asia against the United States and entire world for that matter…
2050 is an important year for energy around the world…(I wonder if I’ll still be alive by then or not.)…
I hope it happens sooner as I am 31 and am not getting any younger over here.
http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-largest-antidepressant-drug-users-2016-2
Hmmm, just as I suspected, Americans consume more antidepressants than anyone else in the world.
They’re also more homicidal than any other first world nation, and many if not most of these mass murderers were on antidepressants at/around the time of the mass murder, coincidence?
I’m not suggesting anti-depressants in and of themselves can be blamed for the disparity in the American (mass) murder rate, but it could easily, and probably is adversely contributing.
At the very least it’s worth having an open, honest, public dialogue, but don’t expect it in the mainstream media anytime soon, don’t hold your breath, that’s not part of the official narrative, all they want us to think about is: guns!
Because there aren’t also a lot of guns in places like: Switzerland!
Now I’m not claiming guns aren’t playing a role in all this, but we’ve all heard that argument before, let’s go deeper.
More than any other country America is a nation of consumers.
Americans bought into mass consumption, modern science, technology and big pharma hook, line and sinker.
We are now altering the neurochemistry of the world with chemicals synthesized in laboratories, chemicals that didn’t exist just a few decades ago, essentially conducting a science experiment on a grand, unprecedented scale at an alarmingly accelerating rate, where you, I, our friends and neighbors are the guinea pigs, and so perhaps it shouldn’t come as such a shock there’s going to be some fallout, some casualties in all this.
Hell the worse may be yet to come, people are getting fatter and fatter, meanwhile fertility is plummeting, cancer and diabetes are soaring, heart disease is skyrocketing, and to all this more and more people are essentially being given what amounts to a lobotomy in a pill.
So many of us have heard stories about this or that person, had to go off antidepressants because they were getting suicidal and/or homicidal thoughts and feelings.
What kind of monsters are we turning ourselves into?
It’s so unfortunate the men responsible for designing modernity apparently forgot to equip it with breaks.
If I had to describe the United States imagine sixty percent of the population being older or elderly where they would eat their young if it meant the continuation of their pensions, social security, retirement, lifestyle, and healthcare. [Financially and economically in many cases they already do.] Yes, it’s that depressing. That’s just the surface, I could spend days talking about the depressing nature of society within the United States.
And what about the Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock?
I heard he was on psychotropics, mood altering drugs too.
And I wonder how much his gambling addiction and the decadence, the debauchery of Vegas was getting to him?
Of course the media won’t talk about any of that, it’s not good for business, the show must go on!
Actually there are rumors of him being a government spook that was an arms dealer but that is a subject for another time.
Yes, obviously.
The level of inequality in existence is absurd. And it’s never going to change. Learn how to deal with it. Like every other actually living sane being does.
Or keep being a silly non-being who would rather whine about existence than… exist.
I’ve already learned how to deal with it, dealing with it doesn’t bar you from complaining about it.
There’s less inequality in many parts of Europe than North America because people complained more, became writers, activists and voted at the municipal, provincial/state and federal levels for politicians who gave more of a shit about them than the average North American politicians do.
That’s what we do half the time on these forums, complain, and that’s what this thread is about, whining about democrats.
Maybe if people complained more, became writers, activists, and voted smarter, instead of taking antidepressants like they do in the US, maybe society would be better and there wouldn’t be as many mass murderers as there are, but no, Americans bottle everything up inside, until some of them explode one day, and the rest wonder why.
Complaining is therapeutic, it’s better than taking antidepressants.
Absolutely. There is something so anti-human, anti-mammalian in our drugging away of emotions. Then in practical terms, it is cutting off feedback about society. A tiny percentage react badly, OK maybe medicate them if they want. When the majority is diagnosible, it means society is fucked up. It’s like giving just painkillers to people who’ve had, let’s say, their arms broken by their employers. ‘Oh, you have a disorder, here’s some opium.’
Be a man, be an American, toughen up, don’t complain to your fellow employees about your boss, don’t complain to your fellow citizens about the politicians, don’t demand a raise, or better working conditions, or help from your community, or help from your government, and never cheat a system that doesn’t give two shits about you, instead, work even harder, have another cup of coffee, take some antidepressants, and if you just can’t take anymore, we got just the solution for you: here’s a gun, hell, here’s 10 semi-autos and a nifty little device you can use to convert them into fully automatic assault rifles.
Kill yourself or some random folks on the street who’ve been fucked just as hard by the system as you have in a fit of rage, that’s the American way, but never think to kill the people most responsible for your plight.
Americans need antidepressants, it’s just another tool the elite use to turn us into “obedient workers” and make sure we stay that way, along with all the mindless entertainment, the dumbed down media, the cell phone, “the sneakers with lights in them”, the piece of cheese.
Keep the hamsters spinning the wheels.
Keep the rats running the race in the maze with no exit.
Buy lottery tickets so that the conditions of your life seem to be on the possible cusp of changing radically at all times and less real.
Get triggered by sensationalist accounts of indviduals - famous ones with generally boring problems, not famous ones with odd, horrible problems - so that it feels like you are living.
Passively engage media as much as possible.
Hate who you are supposed to hate.
Pretend you are not affected by advertising.
And smart phones, don’t even get me started.
Such little beings. But if you want something to actually complain about, then complain about the silly cult of victimhood leftist brainwashing that is still infecting you.
Oh boo hoo waaaa life is SO unfair and mean!! Don’t bottle it up inside, let it out!!
You’ll make a fine slave boy in capitalist hell.
Pretty much sums up your contribution to philosophy…
As before, you completely miss the point. Zero effort to explore opposing views confirmed.
The point is that cooperation is an extremely effective strategy, learn about some game theory. Sure it’s possible for inequality to grow to extreme proportions, but it isn’t fixed, it can and does change. Constantly. Learn to deal with it like sane beings do. Different levels of cooperation occur everywhere in nature, and when they do, the teamwork can outperform individualistic competition easily.
At the moment we have an economic system that enables, necessitates and rewards individualistic competition, and the results are great in many ways but hardly optimal. The left aren’t bound to conserve old ways that kinda worked ok in the past to varying degrees, assumed to be impossible to improve upon. That kind of narrow-mindedness is for the right. The left look to alternatives to progress (a dirty to word to those on the right). They know that cooperation is possible because they have it at their core, and the more their nature is suppressed, the more hostile and often irrational they become. Obviously there are many great examples of leftism going too far in the West, particularly in America e.g. newer waves of Feminism. The levels of oppression to which too many are resorting out of frustration is getting the most attention, of course - capitalist media cannot resist a scandal. But calling for a ban on guns every time the US has yet another mass shooting is not an example of the left going too far - other countries (Australia is a great example) banned guns and the results were so obviously effective. America just refuses to accept reason based on empirical fact for the sake of the continuously debunked ideology of Conservativism - the irrationality of the US right is so ubiquitous it’s no longer newsworthy, it’s just accepted.