I've hated this country since age 13, and, no, motherfuckers, no 'love it or leave it' bullshit -- HATE it, fucking CHANGE it . . . drone the fuckers like Zuck-Chan-Berg and the rest of the semen drip
We have a grievance industry being manipulated by an openly opportunistic generation of power mongers whose ambitions know no boundaries or constraints.
This “Choseness” is a very, very old instrument in the authoritarian tool box :
All the more affective because we’ve foolishly been persuaded to believe “THAT” no longer applies to us; what could be a fatal error.
Prime Takers, the Judaics, Patricia. Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael:
Ishmael tells the narrator there are two main groups of people living on Earth: the Takers and the Leavers. The Takers are the members of people in modern, developed countries who see the world as theirs for the taking. If you’re listening to this podcast, there’s a good chance you’re a Taker according to Ishmael’s lectures. Takers use words like “natural resources,” implying that the universe exists to serve them. Humankind rules the world, and we can do with it whatever we please.
Leavers, on the other hand, are the kinds of people the Takers used to be before they developed the psychotic notion that everything belongs to them. Leavers are people who live off the land. They might be hunter-gatherers living in tribes, but they don’t necessarily have to be. Before I read Ishmael, I read several summaries of the novel that essentially said Leavers all live in nomadic tribes in undeveloped countries. That is not the case.
While Leavers certainly could fall into this category, their defining trait is that they don’t believe the world belongs to them. Rather, they believe humans belong to the world—that is, they believe other species, every one of them from salmon to songbirds, have just as much of a claim to Earth as we do. According to Leavers, humans are no more fit to “rule” than any other animal. We all share the same home, and we should do our best to be good neighbors to the other life on our planet and to live sustainably.
“Industry” of “Choseness” :
THAT’S a good one Paulo.
We have a grievance industry being manipulated by an openly opportunistic generation of power mongers whose ambitions know no boundaries or constraints.
This “Choseness” is a very, very old instrument in the authoritarian tool box :
All the more affective because we’ve foolishly been persuaded to believe “THAT” no longer applies to us; what could be a fatal error.
Prime Takers, the Judaics, Patricia. Daniel Quinn's book, Ishmael:
Ishmael tells the narrator there are two main groups of people living on Earth: the Takers and the Leavers. The Takers are the members of people in modern, developed countries who see the world as theirs for the taking. If you’re listening to this podcast, there’s a good chance you’re a Taker according to Ishmael’s lectures. Takers use words like “natural resources,” implying that the universe exists to serve them. Humankind rules the world, and we can do with it whatever we please.
Leavers, on the other hand, are the kinds of people the Takers used to be before they developed the psychotic notion that everything belongs to them. Leavers are people who live off the land. They might be hunter-gatherers living in tribes, but they don’t necessarily have to be. Before I read Ishmael, I read several summaries of the novel that essentially said Leavers all live in nomadic tribes in undeveloped countries. That is not the case.
While Leavers certainly could fall into this category, their defining trait is that they don’t believe the world belongs to them. Rather, they believe humans belong to the world—that is, they believe other species, every one of them from salmon to songbirds, have just as much of a claim to Earth as we do. According to Leavers, humans are no more fit to “rule” than any other animal. We all share the same home, and we should do our best to be good neighbors to the other life on our planet and to live sustainably.