“For Mike Judge: you don’t get 500 years to be stupid.” – Dr. Freckles
“Solutions”
“Solutions that are really new problem generators? – they do not end well.” – Dr. Freckles
New Olympic Sport: JUDGE TACKLING!
MOAR SOCIAL CONTRACT
“Social Contract: the obligation of all slaves to be happy when they are burnt alive by white phosphorous.” – Dr. Freckles
The “little guy” …
“The ideologies of all empires are grounded in the same lie: we’re helping the little guy.” – Dr. Freckles
“Isolationism” is a dog whistle …
Every time a “conservative” goes off the reservation and talks about downsizing this crooked neo-Stalinist hell hole empire? – “OMG … you’re an isolationist”
BTW: “isolationist” is also used as a proxy these days for “racist” or “anti-Semite”
Many Americans are so imbued with this “imperial ideology”, that they don’t see bombs going off when watching CNN or Fox News …
they see “freedom flames” and people being fed
(they never see the dead)
A picture …
It’s funny, when you’re in school.
Your teacher shows you a picture of something: a “virus”, a “moon landing”, a “victory” over Japan …
And because of authority, as a cultural artifact and pre-programmed fetish, we look at the picture and believe.
(but maybe they should have taught us how NOT to simply believe, but rather: to think)
The US Constitution …
“The US Constitution: a solution to a problem that didn’t exist, in order to create more problems, with more solutions, that create problems … recursion … do this for about 200 years.” – Dr. Freckles
(nicest interpretation)
Prohibition …
“Prohibition didn’t reduce alcohol consumption, or make it safer.” – Dr. Freckles
(now do guns)
Scale …
“Democracy could never scale.” – Dr. Freckles
In many ways, the flaws inherent in democracy are predicted by the “calculation problem”.
The “utopian democrat” wants to pretend that some “honest vote” will yield valid predictors for resource allocation – but what if that’s just the same communist error.
Change …
“Change is for the laundromat.” – Dr. Freckles
Swimming pools …
I don’t think alcohol is good or bad.
I don’t think cigarettes are good or bad.
I don’t think guns or chainsaws or sticks of dynamite are good or bad.
And if you do think “objects”, without sentience, are “good” or “bad”, then BAN FUCKING SWIMMING POOLS …
(to stop drowning)
FIRST they came for the ANARCHISTS!
“First they came for the anarchists, that’s the truth. AND WE’RE NOT EVEN IN THE FUCKING POEM!” – Dr. Freckles
And I’ve discussed this before, so there’s no need to ruminate.
SAVED THE WORLD!
“A statist-voter can sit in a meeting for an hour where NOTHING was done, and feel like they’re a hero, and saved the world.” – Dr. Freckles