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 Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:22 pm
...how much I ******** hate people.
Let me tell you a little story about what happened to me this past Wednesday. I was on my way home from school (Freshman in college), and about halfway through the day it'd started snowing AGAIN. I wasn't quite aware just how slippery it was until I started heading down the hill to the red light, when I applied my brakes. My wheels locked up, but I wasn't slowing down any time soon, so I did the first thing I could think to do: I stuffed my car into a snowbank to avoid hitting the car that was in front of me. Now, I KNOW the people in the car ahead of me saw the whole thing, because they pulled ahead just slightly to give me some room. Because of what I was forced to do, and the fact that the snowbank was up on an actual banking, I curbed the front right tire and put a gaping hole into the sidewall.
Despite this fact, not even the people for whom I sacrificed my car and tire made an effort to make sure that I was fine. Were my car any higher off the ground, I would've rolled, and still, they probably wouldn't have bothered to check. While I was able to pull off the road and into a parking lot, as well as call my mother and brother to get them to come out to give me a hand, the fact that barely a single person stopped to express their curiosity over my well-being, and instead were mostly gawking at the situation while they drove by, is both disconcerting and enraging at the same time. The ironic part about the one person who did have the decency to make sure I was fine, is that he was a Black person, a type of person to which many people in the area hold a good deal of prejudice. Everyone else just passed by.
What bothers me here is the lack of the 'Good Samaritan' attitude that I should be seeing in society today. Time and time again I'm admonished to be considerate of and do good deeds for others, and I'm criticized for being selfish when I don't do any. Well, what about when I'm in my time of need? Nobody there to extend a hand, no kind stranger to help jack my car up, to offer his spare wheel so I can safely get home in the snowstorm, nothing. Well ******** that s**t. People suck, and I don't think I should be expected to be considerate of others when nobody's ever considerate of me.
/rambling and angst
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:46 pm
You set your expectations too high. No one these days gives a s**t about anyone else especially the younger folk. If anything you should see events like this as average and when someone actually does something be thankful for it. Of course if you want to live in a place where people actually give a damn, you're more than welcome to make a trip to Moloka'i but I doubt you'd be able to live the relatively impoverished lifestyle many of the families there live.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:26 pm
You're right, but you can't really blame me for getting aggravated once in awhile for the fact that it is the way it is.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:38 pm
Course not. It never used to be this way back when people actually had to work to survive. It is my belief that if some devastating plague swept through the world and wiped out 3/4 of our population, people would have to start working together to stay alive again and maybe we could have a functional society once more.
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:40 pm
I believe it. If everything we as a society took for granted was wrested from our fingers, our tune would change in an instant. Sad as that may be, that it'd have to come to that.
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:58 am
it's all part of why I don't trust large super-power nations, large States, large republics, etcetera.
no matter where in teh world you are, and no matter what kind of civilization you are in, people are Tribal. it is Intinctual. we look out for ourselves and our kin. we only trust our own. we all are looking out for #1 and have our own interests at heart only.
it's never gonna change. the only reason people work together is to survive, so obviously we are not going to stop dividing ourselves into tiny clans even if we all share a common culture and nation. we don't want to share our resources, including emtional ones.
I have been considering the stray cats here in my neighborhood. the mother stays with her kittens only long enough for them to fend for themselves, then she goes off her own way. meanwhile, the kittens are working together, as good brothers and sisters do. I think about how this happened last litter, and eventually the kittens started going solo and competing with eachother. the males rapes their sisters when they could, and they all fought with eachother over food and shelter. not at all like when they were little. they even would trip eachother up when the Animal Control came, so that they could escape themselves.
people are like that too. and I don't think that any system of government is ever gonna change that. there is no point to laws, and money, and whatever else comes with "civilization" and "society", because none of that matters without enforcement anyway. Anarchy is natural and you can't fight it. it reigns supreme. it's all Naturalistic and Darwinian when it comes down to it. you can't fight it.
that said, your both welcome on my Artificial Island State when I secede from the U.S. ninja
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:08 am
I see where you're coming from
some people are just silly willies
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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:03 pm
Chieftain Twilight that said, your both welcome on my Artificial Island State when I secede from the U.S. ninja As long as you can promise all the booze I can drink, all the mary I can smoke, and a ******** awesome internet service, I'm game for it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:42 am
Ethereal Cereal Chieftain Twilight that said, your both welcome on my Artificial Island State when I secede from the U.S. ninja As long as you can promise all the booze I can drink, all the mary I can smoke, and a ******** awesome internet service, I'm game for it. well, it'll be totally legal. I'll have to see how it goesbefore I can promise that everything you want will be available though. secession is far from easy, after all. ad the global economy is still problematic. I intend to have a Resource-based economy... so... the only one of thos ethings I am not certainw ill be available, is an american level of internet access.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 9:50 am
I'm sure if we get enough intelligent people to join our island community, we could figure out how to start up a nice internet service.
And as far as the alcohol and ganja, I'd probably just import the booze and grow hemp myself. dramallama
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:01 pm
Chieftain Twilight it's all part of why I don't trust large super-power nations, large States, large republics, etcetera. no matter where in teh world you are, and no matter what kind of civilization you are in, people are Tribal. it is Intinctual. we look out for ourselves and our kin. we only trust our own. we all are looking out for #1 and have our own interests at heart only. it's never gonna change. the only reason people work together is to survive, so obviously we are not going to stop dividing ourselves into tiny clans even if we all share a common culture and nation. we don't want to share our resources, including emtional ones. I have been considering the stray cats here in my neighborhood. the mother stays with her kittens only long enough for them to fend for themselves, then she goes off her own way. meanwhile, the kittens are working together, as good brothers and sisters do. I think about how this happened last litter, and eventually the kittens started going solo and competing with eachother. the males rapes their sisters when they could, and they all fought with eachother over food and shelter. not at all like when they were little. they even would trip eachother up when the Animal Control came, so that they could escape themselves. people are like that too. and I don't think that any system of government is ever gonna change that. there is no point to laws, and money, and whatever else comes with "civilization" and "society", because none of that matters without enforcement anyway. Anarchy is natural and you can't fight it. it reigns supreme. it's all Naturalistic and Darwinian when it comes down to it. you can't fight it. that said, your both welcome on my Artificial Island State when I secede from the U.S. ninja When I first started reading this I was like "Damn. Who is this new guy that knows what he's talking about?" Then I looked at the username and was like "Oh." Anyway yes. Humans are instinctively tribal. But you also forgot about the part of competition. Humans and groups of humans are always trying to outdo each other in one way or another. When they can't surpass another alone, they'll call for backup. You could look upon large states/countries as very expansive tribes competing with other very expansive tribes for resources and domination. Still I come back to my statements from months ago. I think you would like to study Hawaiian culture as you stated "...obviously we are not going to stop dividing ourselves into tiny clans even if we all share a common culture and nation". But the Hawaiian culture was not one culture, it was many cultures formed into one. Each district had their own beliefs and things were different from district (ahupua'a) to district. And despite your statement of "we don't want to share our resources, including emtional ones", the ancient people of Oceania actually did share their resources. All the time. But only when they asked for it. As Mau Piailug said (as best my memory serves me) "Other islands must ask before they fish here. But we always let them. They would not ask if they did not need it." I think that's the biggest problem right there in our society today. We ask for things even if we don't need it. So when we really do need something, people are hesitant to give it because they think it's just something we want. Also if you're looking to make an island community, it might be wise to study the ancient Hawaiian ahupua'a and kapu systems that helped them survive on an archipelago all but devoid of resources.
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