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Re: Showing the Gulag How It's Done
The cameras might not be conceptually any different than having extra cops driving around....except that it would be more like having a cop driving back and forth on your street watching you and your house all day and night, every day of the year. Would you be indifferent to that?
It's great to have the police come when you need them, but I'd rather have a society that is safe enough that we don't need to have police or cameras watching all the time.
I don't really like being watched, do you? It's an ominous or at least vaguely unsettling feeling. It makes one want to retreat indoors to try to have some privacy.
The fundamental problem is that the progressive zeitgeist of these times has been busy breaking down what it sees as stultifying social limitations...while ignoring the crucial role social limitations play in controlling biological urges. And so we are ending up with a society where what would have been considered crude if not barbaric is now stylish and the norm. The ongoing tatoo fad is one example. Schoolgirls now behave exactly as only sailors and pimps used to - use foul language, tatoo and pierce themselves, fuck anyone on a whim. The progressives and atheists declared that everything is relative and nothing has meaning, so there is no basis for telling anyone not to do anything. And society gets cruder and more vulgar and more illiterate and ignorant and no one feels like they have any basis upon which to object. The social contract is dissolving and the cameras and nanny-state government represent what wiill replace it.
The other problem is that the progressives have succeeded in imposing their vision of America as nothing but an idea, rather than a society of a particular people, and thus have so atomized us by bringing in the most alien cultures on earth with no expectation that they assimilate that there is no real sense of community anymore. A community doesn't need Big Brother to watch it; it does its own informal policing all the time because everyone feels responsible for and basically cares for everyone else. Neighbors feel comfortable yelling at other neighbors' kids when they're misbehaving. People look out for one another. But that sense of community has been dissolved in the name of a fantasy of multi-ethnic, multi-cultural harmony that just doesn't exist.
So we let muslims into the country even though some of them want to kill us - and the result is that rather than availing ourselves of the very simple, easy option of excluding muslims as culturally incompatible with us, we feel that morally we must allow them in among us - the progressives have left us with no grounds upon which to object - and thus we sentence ourselves to unbelievably intrusive government searches and surveillance in order to try to prevent them from killing us. Look at London - thousands of cameras everywhere, necessary because London is no longer the capital of a people's nation, but a mere geographic location where a score of alien people scrabble and compete for control and where the young people are the most degenerate, drunken, violent, useless bunch Western civilization has seen in who knows how many centuries.
So the hell with the cameras...let's get a real solution, which is to get back to real communities based on real, felt affiliation and not progressive fantasy, and to an understanding of the nature of life and society that recognizes that "anything goes" is not a viable worldview upon which to base a society. Everything is not equal. Equality is not the highest value. Some things ARE better than other things. To act as though they aren't is to doom us to eventually being conquered and replaced by a people with a more sensible cultural worldview.
Originally posted by BiscayneSunrise
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It's great to have the police come when you need them, but I'd rather have a society that is safe enough that we don't need to have police or cameras watching all the time.
I don't really like being watched, do you? It's an ominous or at least vaguely unsettling feeling. It makes one want to retreat indoors to try to have some privacy.
The fundamental problem is that the progressive zeitgeist of these times has been busy breaking down what it sees as stultifying social limitations...while ignoring the crucial role social limitations play in controlling biological urges. And so we are ending up with a society where what would have been considered crude if not barbaric is now stylish and the norm. The ongoing tatoo fad is one example. Schoolgirls now behave exactly as only sailors and pimps used to - use foul language, tatoo and pierce themselves, fuck anyone on a whim. The progressives and atheists declared that everything is relative and nothing has meaning, so there is no basis for telling anyone not to do anything. And society gets cruder and more vulgar and more illiterate and ignorant and no one feels like they have any basis upon which to object. The social contract is dissolving and the cameras and nanny-state government represent what wiill replace it.
The other problem is that the progressives have succeeded in imposing their vision of America as nothing but an idea, rather than a society of a particular people, and thus have so atomized us by bringing in the most alien cultures on earth with no expectation that they assimilate that there is no real sense of community anymore. A community doesn't need Big Brother to watch it; it does its own informal policing all the time because everyone feels responsible for and basically cares for everyone else. Neighbors feel comfortable yelling at other neighbors' kids when they're misbehaving. People look out for one another. But that sense of community has been dissolved in the name of a fantasy of multi-ethnic, multi-cultural harmony that just doesn't exist.
So we let muslims into the country even though some of them want to kill us - and the result is that rather than availing ourselves of the very simple, easy option of excluding muslims as culturally incompatible with us, we feel that morally we must allow them in among us - the progressives have left us with no grounds upon which to object - and thus we sentence ourselves to unbelievably intrusive government searches and surveillance in order to try to prevent them from killing us. Look at London - thousands of cameras everywhere, necessary because London is no longer the capital of a people's nation, but a mere geographic location where a score of alien people scrabble and compete for control and where the young people are the most degenerate, drunken, violent, useless bunch Western civilization has seen in who knows how many centuries.
So the hell with the cameras...let's get a real solution, which is to get back to real communities based on real, felt affiliation and not progressive fantasy, and to an understanding of the nature of life and society that recognizes that "anything goes" is not a viable worldview upon which to base a society. Everything is not equal. Equality is not the highest value. Some things ARE better than other things. To act as though they aren't is to doom us to eventually being conquered and replaced by a people with a more sensible cultural worldview.
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