Your
Brain On Trump
When the Russians gifted Trump the
White House in 2016 I was ready to
storm the Capitol in the same manner
that the January 6th insurrectionists
did.
Why?
Because I knew Trump was a corrupt
monster who would
destroy this country, and he did. And he's still at
it.
Biden, on the other hand, can only be described as
"destroying this country", as so many Trump supporters
think, if your mind is so barren of sentience that
you believe that
a cleaner
environment, better health care and improved infrastructure
are
all bad
ideas.
There is no cure for Trump voters.
There is a cure for Trump, however,
and it's called the "justice system",
and if we're fortunate he'll face the
consequences of his perfidy sooner
rather than later.
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This is a country, a world, mostly, where if you think
of a new product you can manufacture it and sell it
in
a
store. Unfortunately, a lot of these new products are
pure crap. But people will buy anything because humans
are (and this probably won't come as a surprise to
you) idiots who are easily manipulated by shiny objects
and clever marketing. And the vast majority of all
the crap these idiots buy will
end
up eventually burdening
our
landfills until there's ultimately nowhere else to
put it.
Department stores are filled with this sort of crap.
As an example, go
to walmart.com and search for "toaster". You will get
over a thousand results.
WE DON'T NEED A THOUSAND DIFFERENT FUCKING TOASTERS!
We need three toasters, at most. And they should all
be constructed of durable quality materials and they
should
be
easily repairable by all but the most simple-minded
among us. This description goes for almost almost any
consumer good that we may wish to purchase and own. But
it doesn't work that way. We want cheap and we want
novelty, and
we want the kind of crap that makes our neighbors look
at our possessions enviously. And when the crap breaks we'll
rush out and buy some more and "better" cheap crap.
This is who we humans have become in our industrialized
society. For the most part we no longer define ourselves,
individually, by who we are and what we can accomplish
though our gained experience and wisdom, but
rather by what we own.
Boiled down to its essence mankind will destroy itself
because it can't get enough novelty in its life. Maybe
it's part of having these big old brains we've evolved,
or maybe it's having these big old brains and credit
cards.
There is a solution to this problem but it'll only
come after we've used up all the vital natural resources
that
make
our crap,
or
the
grid that
powers
our crap
has collapsed or, most likely, after we've run out
of viable sperm and no new humans will be born to make
and buy
new crap.
=Lefty=
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