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shadowlightKnow this. I am here and I will fight you and your collectivist philosophy to the death. username ReardenMetal, comment left on OWS website.
People are seriously saying this stuff. That scares me. Bumper sticker says, "I'd rather be killing zombies." ....traffic is bad sometimes, but I'd take it over the living dead. More and more, I suspect that 'zombies' is code for 'people I don't like'. All these people out there are stocking away guns for the apocalypse, praying for the rapture. I'd rather we had a future where we communicated like rational grown-up human beings, and found a society that we could all live with, rather than some faction, even my own faction, coming out on top, reshaping the entire nation to suit their values, and conveniently mistaking for a zombie anyone with opposing values and shooting them in the head. Unfortunately, showing an ability to think about issues and change your mind is seen as weakness. A moron who is 100% certain is preferred over a genius who is only 80% sure, pending further research.
I hear people bemoaning the loss of common sense. Problem with 'common sense' is that it mostly only creates an illusion of commonality, and rarely can be recognized as sensible. It tends to lead people to shouting matches because "I can see this as clear as day. How can you not see that? You must be stupid if you see the world differently than me." It is more delusion than real perceptive ability. I wasn't born with a capability to sync up with the local common sense parameters. You have to actually give me a reason to do things. I'm disabled that way.
People are seriously saying this stuff. That scares me. Bumper sticker says, "I'd rather be killing zombies." ....traffic is bad sometimes, but I'd take it over the living dead. More and more, I suspect that 'zombies' is code for 'people I don't like'. All these people out there are stocking away guns for the apocalypse, praying for the rapture. I'd rather we had a future where we communicated like rational grown-up human beings, and found a society that we could all live with, rather than some faction, even my own faction, coming out on top, reshaping the entire nation to suit their values, and conveniently mistaking for a zombie anyone with opposing values and shooting them in the head. Unfortunately, showing an ability to think about issues and change your mind is seen as weakness. A moron who is 100% certain is preferred over a genius who is only 80% sure, pending further research.
I hear people bemoaning the loss of common sense. Problem with 'common sense' is that it mostly only creates an illusion of commonality, and rarely can be recognized as sensible. It tends to lead people to shouting matches because "I can see this as clear as day. How can you not see that? You must be stupid if you see the world differently than me." It is more delusion than real perceptive ability. I wasn't born with a capability to sync up with the local common sense parameters. You have to actually give me a reason to do things. I'm disabled that way.