edgecrusher
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im just sighing.... doing what i usually do in these situations... convincing myself nothing will come of it even though i really want something to. not sure which one it is though.
IgnoredOne said:The other day, I met an "Occupier" protesting outside our building with two others and gently explained to her the utter futility of her entire cause from every perspective, and how her very existence and her very rights were due to the exploitation of others with as much eloquence and clarity as my teaching experience allowed me. Her iPad has as an effective ingredient, one-fifth of a rape; her rights are due to labor-saving devices from technology, and technology from passive past or active present resource exploitation of third world country. Fortunately, I told her that sustainability will be maintained as economic collapses cause die offs, and often result in wars that will cause more die offs. The survivors will then be blessed with the remaining resources, now less divided.
Even Greek democracy, I noted in response to one of them, excluded slaves and women; and even then, it was destroyed by Spartan dictatorship. It is therefore ultimately unsustainable, not very fair to begin with, and at best, the accident of fate.
She left the rally and told me that she was horribly depressed now and I had ruined her hope in any future in humanity. She was crying a little and looked physically sick. Her two friends followed her soon after.
I feel like a bad person.
Ak5 said:I need to stop being so self-conscious.
TheSolitaryMan said:Ak5 said:I need to stop being so self-conscious.
Right now I am stealing this thought!
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