07-18-2020, 06:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2020, 06:52 AM by Black Dragon.)
(07-16-2020, 07:25 AM)gramboginn Wrote: "So, basically, knowing the region a bit, i can just say that those old Russians did not see through propaganda as they self-profess, but they just cynically dismissed anything they were told by their government due to Eastern European / Russian cynicism and fatalism. Which also plagues a lot of regions, from Balkans to parts of Anatolia."
And this is what is happening in this country. People cynically acceptinganything they were told by their media systemdue to Liberal or Republicancynicism and fatalism. Which also plagues a lot of regions, from California to New York
This world's biggest problem is thinking we're separate. When this one obvious fallacy is dissolved, the world changes overnight. The world seems to ebb and flow with emotion due to what is hip and popular in the media.
The universe is a very cold and harsh ruler of life and death. Animals are governed by the rule of survival of the fittest. All alien races are also ruled by this very brutal truth. We Earthlings are silly, and downright blinded to our own beliefs...to think we can overturn this brutal fact. We lie to each other via tv, radio, internet, chat groups to think that we can overturn this premise. The differences create reality and force choice. Because of this continual fight against the premise of survival of the fittest we wander around this planet thinking life is either unfair and therefore I can set fires of rage and anger or worthy of praise because I've climbed to the top of the mountain and I'm impervious to being knocked off. The two polarizing factions (and their varying level of hate due to their groupings, economic levels etc) go around and around thinking they are different from each other, only to leave their bodies and realize how wrong they were to live a life of separation and hate.
I would advise to not watch the news/media at all. It is a biased bullhorn that "earned" the right to broadcast 60 years ago because of a few very wealthy white men...and it's only going to make your life quite miserable. To enjoy life read books about non-judgment, pick up Buddhist books as a simple guide of peaceful living...see the change in the world as a result of us moving through a new band of the universe and shrug the drama off your shoulders and out of your life. The 4th dimension will arrive and you and I will both leave this body. Fighting and being angry all the time will put you in the hospital with a terrible cancer diagnosis which will be a very unfortunate and painful death. None of us is right about anything...it just is. Focus on the realities of life and how unfairness is in everything we do...when you accept this your path through life will be much much more peaceful.
I agree on your premise of left and right-wing "fatalism and cynicism", and people thinking they are separate...however, I would like you to elaborate on what you define as "survival of the fittest", what this idea means to you and why it's important. It throws up a bit of a red flag for me, because the phrase "survival of the fittest" is one I usually see people use to justify cynicism, apathy, sociopathy, and STS/predatory behavior as well as things like eugenics and forcibly altering/weeding/breeding to fit some established baseline. I find it to be a rather base and mechanistic concept. I see countless people use the excuse of life's inherent unfairness to justify being shitty unfair people themselves and to make things even crappier than they inherently are rather than going against the pattern and striving to make fairness and joy wherever they can, in the aspects of life they do have control over.
The physical, veiled 3d reality is counter-intuitive in some ways and it, exacerbated greatly by the ways of Earth society, paint a picture of the "fittest" being the most dominant, controlling, and least empathetic. In the long run, the truth of the matter is a lot different from a societal standpoint, as cultures based on domination and predation and hierarchy have a tendency to be less efficient, less cohesive, and potentially self-destructive, which are not traits I find very "fit". Symbiotic, win/win, egalitarian types of societies would fit my definition of "fit", and destroy themselves and their planets far less often, hence better fit for survival.
Any "alien" race that's worth a damn isn't "ruled" by this notion of "survival of the fittest" at all: it has transcended such definitions and is "ruled" by its principles.