TL;DR: the stability and prosperity of western liberal democracy gave us the luxury of fucking around. Now we’re going to find out.
YuckyStench on
I don’t want shit to hit the fan but if it does, man do I hope everyone who wanted this gets absolutely pounded with the consequences.
I used to be much more humanitarian but now I just have anger
brianpv on
Conspiracists are not usually that convinced by consequences. Like the meme stock followers simply see their losses as evidence that the market is rigged against them by their enemies.
PoliticalAlt128 on
> In the prophetic and too-little-read final chapters of The End of History, the political theorist Francis Fukuyama suggests that the safety and success of modern liberal societies provides not only a licence for misbehaviour but a provocation to it. Men without any oppression to struggle against may struggle anyway “out of a certain boredom”. Fukuyama writes that “if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterised by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy”.
True as fuck
TheGreaterFool_88 on
They would have to recognize reality first.
Any consequence of their actions will be blamed on whatever scapegoat their shepherds tell them.
MiddleEarthPolling on
>But as the fate of those Texan antivaxers shows, the luxury of consequence-free foolishness may be coming to an end. As the economy flounders, political crises loom, vaccination rates fall and science deniers enter government, the West is becoming a more dangerous place and its fools are less insulated from the repercussions of their own beliefs. The Texan antivaxers may only be the first to find out. **The paradise of fools is coming to an end.** I do not hope for an apology or recantation. I just hope they do not take the rest of us down with them.
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TL;DR: the stability and prosperity of western liberal democracy gave us the luxury of fucking around. Now we’re going to find out.
I don’t want shit to hit the fan but if it does, man do I hope everyone who wanted this gets absolutely pounded with the consequences.
I used to be much more humanitarian but now I just have anger
Conspiracists are not usually that convinced by consequences. Like the meme stock followers simply see their losses as evidence that the market is rigged against them by their enemies.
> In the prophetic and too-little-read final chapters of The End of History, the political theorist Francis Fukuyama suggests that the safety and success of modern liberal societies provides not only a licence for misbehaviour but a provocation to it. Men without any oppression to struggle against may struggle anyway “out of a certain boredom”. Fukuyama writes that “if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterised by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy”.
True as fuck
They would have to recognize reality first.
Any consequence of their actions will be blamed on whatever scapegoat their shepherds tell them.
>But as the fate of those Texan antivaxers shows, the luxury of consequence-free foolishness may be coming to an end. As the economy flounders, political crises loom, vaccination rates fall and science deniers enter government, the West is becoming a more dangerous place and its fools are less insulated from the repercussions of their own beliefs. The Texan antivaxers may only be the first to find out. **The paradise of fools is coming to an end.** I do not hope for an apology or recantation. I just hope they do not take the rest of us down with them.
As is written! *Qithlas’ha!*
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please hurry