"The Man" & Justified Quarantine...
You'd say I don't want to know... I'd say you don't want me to know! The "why" is the edge-of-your-seat stuff.
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You know who you are... the rest are cursed as your unwitting facilitators.
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See, does the UFO mean more autonomy for the individual? Could UFOs mean that the individual could more easily secede from the "approved" —if derelict— institutions and organizations only abusing the individual? Could UFOs mean that more individuals might have their own castles in a burgeoning 21st Century middle class? That's what scares the man the most. An autonomous individual, you see, must be treated with the same concern and respect that the man reserves for his few equals.
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...Can't have THAT!
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The demonstration of that respect costs money and power. The man is reluctant to pay that out to anyone, even his own! Forget everyone else.
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I think most people are driven into isolation from a perceived threat. That threat doesn't have to be real, mind you. That threat CAN be a ruse used to manipulate and coerce. Your *tree* produces fruit, reader. ...You happy with your fruit or lack of same? I suspect you are, and that's the problem, neatly.
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Conversely, people want to get along! These must not be trained, encouraged, and otherwise falsely convinced to go the other way! Squeeze a lemon and the juice goes in your eye.
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In a similar fashion, a good, credible philosophical "deal" is just not perceived from the dust-bowel environs of comfortably klasskurtxian and pelicanistic skepti-bunky apologists... ...uber-anthropomorphic brigands most likely the root cause of ALL the unshared misery seriously fountaining from this... aggregate lack of respect and minimized individual responsibility we've practised... we've endured ... across the board! Bear with me here. There is too much respect meted out to that which has no respect for you, reader.
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We're not being true to ourselves. We're not respecting ourselves. Consumed with self-hatred? We're not loving ourselves, so tragically, we have no capacity to love outside ourselves. Us or them!
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This would go a long way to explaining that "not landing on the White House lawn" thing. Eh? It may even justify a conjectured quarantine.
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Yeah, I broad brush, but a lot of the paint still sticks. No apologies here.
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...Read on.
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Alfred Lehmberg
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I just saw again the German film production of Hitler's last days entitled "Downfall" which is based on eyewitness accounts of the psycho drama and self delusion that took place in a small underground chamber, or bunker as the Russians made a steady advance on their position. Your post could have is an excellent postscript to a film which should be required viewing for young students. I had relations in Germany who worked against Hitler in Berlin as minor government functionaries. They told me of the dangers of painting by the numbers and like attorneys, with a guilty client knowing what not to ask has a higher priority in terms of the media's complicity in fostering intentional or idiotic dualism where the right need the left to be the left and vice versa as John Nash so beautifully outlined in Game Theory..both sides against the middle, or for that matter, the choice of "experts" to present to the public when the media is controlled by a handful of industrialists, as Noam Chomsky pointed out during the Viet Nam War..has now been so refined as to be seamless in order to control a faux debate. Your views are timely and the brush may require broadening beyond artificial boundaries..
It seems a denial of provenance to quibble trivialities. What matters how an "other" manifests when the purpose of the discussion as to the nature of the "other" is only to provide for a rejection of that "other." Where does that paint stick do you suppose?