Vienna Idiocy Ed.: Der Standard further virtue-signals dangerous historical ignorance--check out this lunatic agit-prop in downtown Vienna (and apologies to Roger Waters)
Praying, other magical rites and displaying tribal colours cannot go out of style, seing as we can't function beyond the size of a family unit without it.
That's not me being nihilist, just recognising that it's what it is and how we function.
And few things brings large diverse groups together as hating together. Look at all forms of marxist ideology. Look at islam. Look at the climate cult. Hating the Other declared Evil brings the group together, lessens tensions within the group and incites the group to act.
The reverse of course being to warn about ominous doom to create fear of straying in thought or deed.
Actual facts? Leaders only need facts, us galley slaves needs the beat and keep an eye on the lash.
Over here in CZ, people are valiantly resisting Putin by flying Ukrainian flags all over the place and sporadically bullying Russian immigrants. As far as the flags are concerned: fine. If it makes people happy, I don't see why not. As for the bullying: sounds an awful lot like trying to get back at the local Mafia boss by shooting your neighbor's chihuahua, because you know that the Mafia boss also has a chihuahua. Never mind that the Mafia boss's chihuahua has its own bodyguard whom you certainly wouldn't dare mess with, and as for hurting the Mafia boss himself - hahaha.
Agree. Here in Germany, Russian immigrants are having a hard time as well, even their children (my wife is a teacher). The collectivist mindset of our day immediately played out. It is always "solidarity with Ukraine". OK, what is meant by that? ALL the people in Ukraine, even those in the east that lean towards Russia? I suspect there is some afterglow from the Klitschko brothers who spent their boxing career in Germany and are still regarded as some kind of honorary Germans. War is horrible, and my sympathy goes to all individual people (on all sides) being affected by it but I am reluctant to extend my sympathy towards groups.
"The Russian leader has long harbored bitterness about Ukraine and denied that it was genuinely an independent state, but briefers told Mr. Biden that Mr. Putin seemed to grow more extreme in his thinking during his isolation over the last two years amid the coronavirus pandemic."
Praying, other magical rites and displaying tribal colours cannot go out of style, seing as we can't function beyond the size of a family unit without it.
That's not me being nihilist, just recognising that it's what it is and how we function.
And few things brings large diverse groups together as hating together. Look at all forms of marxist ideology. Look at islam. Look at the climate cult. Hating the Other declared Evil brings the group together, lessens tensions within the group and incites the group to act.
The reverse of course being to warn about ominous doom to create fear of straying in thought or deed.
Actual facts? Leaders only need facts, us galley slaves needs the beat and keep an eye on the lash.
Over here in CZ, people are valiantly resisting Putin by flying Ukrainian flags all over the place and sporadically bullying Russian immigrants. As far as the flags are concerned: fine. If it makes people happy, I don't see why not. As for the bullying: sounds an awful lot like trying to get back at the local Mafia boss by shooting your neighbor's chihuahua, because you know that the Mafia boss also has a chihuahua. Never mind that the Mafia boss's chihuahua has its own bodyguard whom you certainly wouldn't dare mess with, and as for hurting the Mafia boss himself - hahaha.
Agree. Here in Germany, Russian immigrants are having a hard time as well, even their children (my wife is a teacher). The collectivist mindset of our day immediately played out. It is always "solidarity with Ukraine". OK, what is meant by that? ALL the people in Ukraine, even those in the east that lean towards Russia? I suspect there is some afterglow from the Klitschko brothers who spent their boxing career in Germany and are still regarded as some kind of honorary Germans. War is horrible, and my sympathy goes to all individual people (on all sides) being affected by it but I am reluctant to extend my sympathy towards groups.
Let's just pretend they really wanted to acknowledge Sweden's reasonable Covid policy.
BTW, someone just linked to this on Twitter:
"The Russian leader has long harbored bitterness about Ukraine and denied that it was genuinely an independent state, but briefers told Mr. Biden that Mr. Putin seemed to grow more extreme in his thinking during his isolation over the last two years amid the coronavirus pandemic."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/26/us/politics/biden-putin-russia-us-ukraine.html
LMAO! I didn't bother reading the whole article (it's the NYT...), but that was pretty funny. It may be true, too.