An addendum to check out is the arts and crafts movement - it was an explicit counter campaign to the destruction of human skill - it was intentionally destroyed for favor of the factory owning elites.

We can revive it if we dared to slow down and appreciate inconvinence - if we accepted a human pace of innovation and creation and loved our own local artists and imperfections wed be so much better off.

And let the star wars begin, maybe the coming kessler syndrome and with the inability to escape Earth, the elites will finally take this planet seriously. I cant beleive these fucking losers run the place.

Neat!

I think its more that the racist words and racists violence are not two seperate entities that can be tackled independently

And thats what the person is attempting to do, essentially cut one head off the hydra knowing 2 more will emerge

The common link is not just the words, its not just the violence, its that and the infinite spectrum of ramnifications of people thinking there are greater and lesser people than themselves

Yes violent acts are worse than verbal acts Traumas should not be compared, all victems are valid, and words can be used violently.

But racism is bigger than words and violence, and saying “oh the racist violence is worse than the racist words, so we should be focusing in on the violence” is ignorant, and purposefully looks for a tree so as to not see the forest.

Racism is born of generational societal systemic levels of suffering - it requires generational societal systemic levels of healing to reduce its harm.

Combine city skylines, civilization, and democracy - i want a society sim

Allow the players to get real unique with the shape of society and have the soc-sim give reasonable (or at least enjoyable) responses

Something that really enjoyably presses the point that society shapes both laws and city design and policy foriegn and domestic - some entity greater than the sum - an egregore - and that you as the player who can mold the clay of society - which society do you pilot to form the shape of your vision?

Id play that game so much

Is this like a higher abstraction level version of looking at a mirror pointed at another mirror type situation?, or help me visualize your idea better

On further thought, it sounds like a hologram theory to me, am i right?

Truly, thanks for being one of the people keeping lemmy alive - im a bit of a lurker, mostly upvoting and curating - occasionally commenting and adding in my own way - but i probably wouldnt still be here if it wasnt for all your memes bringing some levity to all the serious news and discussion

Thank you Picard Maneuver!

Dont be a troll, this is pathetic.

Come back to this tomorrow and reread it if you have to.

I’m done, heres your three paragraphs though, i still love you.

This is so frustrating

The commenter was building on top of your argument

You said prohibition wasnt healthy

They said total absence of control wasnt healthy

They implicitly agreed with you that prohibition wasnt healthy

I then spell it out for you that the message being built, that almost certainly you also agree with, is that moderation is the answer.

A counterpoint turns a random point into a line, a line into a polygon, a polygon into a solid, etc.

That counterpoint gave your message an extra and important dimmension. They thought your message was correct but lacking neccisary nuance.

For some reason you got peeved with that, and i think that looks poorly on you, not anyone else.

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Dosent to me at all

They didnt even really counter your point, they gave another perspective to form a stronger argument of what your message was already saying

Parents should teach and guide their children moderation, especially for such common and addictive substances like sugar, especially when without moderation serious health and quality of life damages can apply

If a parents goal is to raise healthy humans with a high quality of life - they should be teaching and guiding children into moderation, not prohibition and the shame that goes with it, not hedonism and the shamelessness that goes with that

Its not that sugar is some fearful substance that should be prohobited outright, but its also not a substance without issue and should be moderated and controlled if modersation is not yet possible for such a still-developing human

There are many such substances that need this parental guidance, sugar is just the most obvious one to younh parents - a toddler probably/hopefully isnt hitting a 40 or a roach

Death is the end

Do you judge a book on it last page, paragraph, or its sentence, or its last word, or its last punctuation, or the last page number at the very bottom right?

I certainly dont, i judge the book for the book it was, in totality (or as much of it as i remember).

Life is the journey, not the end. The end isnt the point, nor the goal, nor even the destination - its just a point no different than any of the others.

Release yourself from worrying about one moment, and allow yourself to see the beauty and capability of the entire life