Honest question for the board........

[AProudLefty]

Ask Stone if he understands what my point is.

Ok @Stone what say you?

 

[Guno צְבִי]

Alexander Dugin says that this current massive degeneracy of the West in the inevitable destination of liberalism. I am not sold on this but there is certainly something to the claim......people in the West have long been more interested in cheating to get ahead personally rather than being good people doing good work....why this happened is very important to learn.

The Chinese and the Russians are not like this.

The Imperialist Philosopher Who Demanded the Ukraine War​

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.

The Imperialist Philosopher Who Demanded the Ukraine War

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Guno צְבִי]

You are suggesting that people are intrinsically bad and in need of the law.

xtianity in a nutshell , people are born bad

 

[Hawkeye10]

Humans have the capacity for both good and evil.....a part of this is certainly the current nihilism....so many dont have any interest in putting in the hard work of building because they dont think humanity has any future....and that they are disconnected from the collective.......might as well have fun.

I talk like that a lot but my Party Mode does not come from nihilism, it comes from retirement, after a lifetime of good effort.

And even in retirement I am here trying to help.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

It goes something like this:

The filthy rich and powerful think they're largely above the law. Epstein gave them a hedonistic lifestyle where they could play out their fantasies and such, at least regarding to sexual and intimate relationships. There's nothing new about this. In Epstein's case he could provide such a playground for the truly rich and powerful.

Both Epstein and those he catered to never thought for a millisecond that any of this was really a problem or would ever be publicly exposed. Epstein wisely fell on a proverbial sword once it was exposed. Some of his minions and underlings--who aren't rich and powerful--went to prison. The filthy rich and powerful are now just riding the storm out, so to speak.

Sure, there's the scandal and it's totally lascivious. But the filthy rich and powerful don't give a shit beyond their surviving intact, riding it out. And this will happen at some point.

It is pure fantasy that anyone really rich and powerful will end up getting anything punitive out of this. That's why the whole exercise is meaningless. This sort of shit has gone on since the Pharaohs ruled Egypt and the outcome is always the same. Unless the rich and powerful are willing to police their own, nothing will happen and you are wasting your time wishing ill on someone who is rich and powerful that is caught up in this.