Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 02, 2024, 11:07 PMWe face a huge challenge but already know many solutions

We do?  I must have missed them.  If somebody tried to inoculate me with a statement like this, I'd ask them to fill me in on the solutions we already know.  Besides, if we know them, why aren't they being implemented?  It's not a solution if you don't actually do it.

I think this is like hypnosis.  You can only be hypnotized if you want to be hypnotized.  I have never been able to be hypnotized.  When the hypnotist tells me "You are getting sleepy", in my head I don't agree with him.  I'm not sleepy at all.  Why would I believe somebody telling me that I am sleepy?

The problem here is most people want to be hypnotized.

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Quote from: monsta666 on Feb 03, 2024, 03:01 AMAt the end of the day people just want to have fun, not think too deeply about anything. They lack the curiosity and societies in general tend to discourage this instinct.

Quote from: RE on Feb 03, 2024, 06:20 AMIt's not a solution if you don't actually do it.

               

I have to pay 8 cents every time I have to use a new grocery store bag.  This keeps plastic bags out of the ocean.  This must be one of the 'solutions'.  And since I am only a dozen miles from the ocean it is super important I do this!

If you missed one of the solutions you just have to think harder.

* And if you think hard enough maybe you can come up with a new solution.  If you do it will be just like being KING PENNY.  That is the guy who gets all the fractional cents that capitalism throws away.  Or like MR BREAD TIE.  The guy who invented the slotted plastic tabs that seal plastic bread bags.  Then you can bask in your glory.  You won't get rich but your new self-esteem will let you sleep like a babe.  You can be a legend in your own mind!  Way better than the useless eaters who had no solution at all.  You will have more self-deception than any useless eater will ever have.  You will be number 1.

Neener neener!

Quote from: RE on Feb 03, 2024, 06:20 AM

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 02, 2024, 11:07 PMWe face a huge challenge but already know many solutions

We do?  I must have missed them.  If somebody tried to inoculate me with a statement like this, I'd ask them to fill me in on the solutions we already know.  Besides, if we know them, why aren't they being implemented?  It's not a solution if you don't actually do it.

I think this is like hypnosis.  You can only be hypnotized if you want to be hypnotized.  I have never been able to be hypnotized.  When the hypnotist tells me "You are getting sleepy", in my head I don't agree with him.  I'm not sleepy at all.  Why would I believe somebody telling me that I am sleepy?

The problem here is most people want to be hypnotized.

RE

Many people of balanced mind and congenial activity scarcely know what others think of them, and will
deny, perhaps with indignation, that such care is an important factor in what they are and do.

But this is illusion. If failure or disgrace arrives, if one suddenly finds that the faces of men show coldness or
contempt instead of the kindliness and deference that he is used to, he will perceive from the shock,
the fear, the sense of being outcast and helpless, that he was living in the minds of others without
knowing it, just as we daily walk the solid ground without thinking how it bears us up.

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The problem here is most people want to be hypnotized.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 03, 2024, 01:33 PM

Colored lights can hypnotize.  Sparkle in someone else's eyes.

You are getting sleeeeepy.....



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