Chaos and the Anti-Thread

[Emil El Zapato]

Ecko: Rising is a unique genre-bending fantasy–sci-fi epic following a savage, gleefully cynical anti-hero. After awakening in a dimension-jumping inn to find himself immersed in his own sardonic fantasy world, Ecko joins a misfit cast of characters and strives to conquer his deepest fears and save the world from extinction.

-not me-

[Wind]

It must be Scottish (or Norwegian)...I live in that reality too! I'm a constant "fixer" of things...

Lol, I thought I'm a "fixer" because of my Virgo nature.

[Emil El Zapato]

Sorry to all you folks, but it's the Neanderthals done this.

[Emil El Zapato]

I'm not letting it go that easy...

So, I've decided that 'synchronicity' happens at the quantum level...quantum energy is the vehicle for the cause and effect that Jung didn't realize because he had no way of fully understanding that.

But that still leaves open the question of why. Well, I've got that figured out as well. Coincidence, of course... , but why coincidence? We still hit the wall of the ineffable just because that is the nature of our nature.

[Wind]

When you have myopic view of the world, what happens? You get out of touch with reality.

There's a big shift happening around the world and mostly for the worse, but especially in the US things have gotten really bad. Corporate greed and sociopathic capitalism has gotten out hand. The administration is completely clueless, the media brainwashes people and people themselves are divided perhaps more than ever before. There's selfishness and not enough compassion for the fellow man. Where are the basic human values? Freedom, equality, compassion, integrity. You know that society has gone demonic when those things are lacking.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcAOj_pcQ4g

[Emil El Zapato]

Honestly Wind, I give that a hearty 2nd...

[Fred Steeves]

There's selfishness and not enough compassion for the fellow man. Where are the basic human values? Freedom, equality, compassion, integrity. You know that society has gone demonic when those things are lacking.

Now we're demonic?

[Aragorn]

There's selfishness and not enough compassion for the fellow man. Where are the basic human values? Freedom, equality, compassion, integrity. You know that society has gone demonic when those things are lacking.

Now we're demonic?

That's not what he said, now is it?

[Fred Steeves]

That's not what he said, now is it?

There's selfishness and not enough compassion for the fellow man

Might you clear it up for me? Interpreter needed? "Fellow man" implies the average person, not just any given (especially this one) administration.

Be careful with the broad stroke admonishments is all I'm saying.

[Wind]

Now we're demonic?

Not "we", I meant society in general has become demonic in the way it operates. I must beg your pardon if you didn't catch that.

Culture is not your friend, Fred. Nor is the machine. I know there are many good, decent people out there, but that's not the point.

[Fred Steeves]

What I'm noticing is that, in general we're not supposed to talk about the U.S. because things are already so, "U.S. Centric" so to speak; but then on the other hand, comments flow cleanly and clearly as the wind driven snow concerning the U.S. in general, with no clear divisions between our elite class, and the rest of us.

[Wind]

Well, we all should know that the problem is with the elites and yet every common man should look into the mirror too.

I feel like I'm starting to become a part of the problem by focusing on the US politics so much and spouting about it here, but I feel like I need to express my thoughts because what happens in the US actually affects the whole world too. Otherwise I might not give a rat's ass about it. I see through the whole sham and that's something that makes me sad and sometimes angry too.

I can't speak for Aragorn's behalf, but he has said that he's tired of everything revolving around the US politics. I don't think he meant that you shouldn't talk about the issues in your country, just acknowledge that the rest of the world exists too. Perhaps you feel like I criticize the US too much, but actually I am only looking at the problems where I see them. At least in my own case I can tell that once I stop talking abpit things it means that I've stopped caring and have become totally desensitized and cynical about things. I'm not there yet mentally and I don't hope that it would become like that, although I can totally see why the likes of George Carlin became so.

[Aragorn]

What I'm noticing is that, in general we're not supposed to talk about the U.S. because things are already so, "U.S. Centric" so to speak; but then on the other hand, comments flow cleanly and clearly as the wind driven snow concerning the U.S. in general, with no clear divisions between our elite class, and the rest of us.

I heard a nice one at the PCLinuxOS forum the other day. It went something like "It is a well-known fact that half of all Americans are crazy. There's just disagreement on which half."

And I think that came from an American, but I'm not sure.

[Fred Steeves]

Well, we all should know that the problem is with the elites and yet every common man should look into the mirror too.

I feel like I'm starting to become a part of the problem by focusing on the US politics so much and spouting about it here, but I feel like I need to express my thoughts because what happens in the US actually affects the whole world too. Otherwise I might not give a rat's ass about it. I see through the whole sham and that's something that makes me sad and sometimes angry too.

I can't speak for Aragorn's behalf, but he has said that he's tired of everything revolving around the US politics. I don't think he meant that you shouldn't talk about the issues in your country, just acknowledge that the rest of the world exists too. Perhaps you feel like I criticize the US too much, but actually I am only looking at the problems where I see them. At least in my own case I can tell that once I stop about talking things it means that I've stopped caring and have become totally desensitized and cynical about things. I'm not there yet mentally and I don't hope that it would become like that, although I can totally see why the likes of George Carlin became so.

Try separating the people, from the government. That's a good start.

[Wind]

Try separating the people, from the government. That's a good start.

I know the distinction quite well. Who "elects" the government?