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We Are the Normal Ones - And the Outside World are the Fruit-Loops

Desmond1979

Having heard about the Train Stabbing, last night, I can safely assume that we're the level-headed ones.

Perhaps our way of living spared us from the savagery out there. We know how to process ills better. Rather than lash out, we find other outlets for satisfaction.

Some Inner-City areas, in our country, would make the Third World Squirm. A society trained, like dogs, to attack at will.

The problem is Centralised Planning. Trying to make every town and city the same. In the end, they lost their sense of character. Too many aspiring architects, with connections, ruining everything.

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  • Desmond1979 said:
    I can safely assume that we're the level-headed ones.

    I wouldn't be so sure about that.

    We have had some on here saying we should get the aristocrats to take over power in the country to take us back ot the the good old days.

    Some are advocating getting rid of immigrants to take us back to the good old days.

    Others saying we should put the church in charge to keep the sinners under control like back in the good old days.

    And so forth.

    The one thing all have in common is an opinion that it was better in the good old days, whatever that may mean.

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  • Desmond1979 said:
    I can safely assume that we're the level-headed ones.

    I wouldn't be so sure about that.

    We have had some on here saying we should get the aristocrats to take over power in the country to take us back ot the the good old days.

    Some are advocating getting rid of immigrants to take us back to the good old days.

    Others saying we should put the church in charge to keep the sinners under control like back in the good old days.

    And so forth.

    The one thing all have in common is an opinion that it was better in the good old days, whatever that may mean.

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  • in reply to Iain

    "The one thing all have in common is an opinion that it was better in the good old days, whatever that may mean."

    No. Some things have got worse, some have got better. No such thing as the good old days, just the old days.

  • in reply to Iain
    Iain said:

    We have had some on here saying we should get the aristocrats to take over power in the country to take us back ot the the good old days.

    Some are advocating getting rid of immigrants to take us back to the good old days.

    Others saying we should put the church in charge to keep the sinners under control like back in the good old days.

    And so forth.

    All valid opinions and all easily dismantled with a few moments reasoned discussion.
    And that seems to me to be the proper way to do things: through reasoned discussion.

    We have the technology to enable everyone in the world to join in conversation, so the problem becomes one of hearing the discussion above the noise, and that's really not that difficult: we just need the conversational equivalent to a fractionating column, and a robust and transparent mechanism for regulating it.

    Proper democracy comes when decisions are made on the strength of the arguments rather than the density of their proponents, and the strength of the argument can be tested by simmering it in the cauldron of public discourse and distilling the collective wisdom from the chattering of the masses.

    Speaking of arguments, shouldn't this post have a trigger warning?
    Not a criticism or complaint, just an observation: it seems to me much more likely to become triggering than the other post where I was told about the guidelines.

  • in reply to Iain

    The good old days is a fairytale, different for everybody, Yesterday is gone. Civil society and (British) values need to be protected though.