The most disturbing question
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- tjk_work
There's a small ad on netscapes home page that reads "How will a war with Iraq affect your wallet"
Now it's scary and even a little depressing growing up in a time where countries are at war with each other... but the scariest thing is living in a time where people are so caught up with materialistic bullshit that they are more concerned with their bank statement then the outcome another war will have on: society, the civilians of Iraq, their own military, not to mention the future of the world.
Sorry I don't normally post anything non-design related but this Ad just blew me away.
- Biofreak0
by nature, humans are interested in self preservation.
it is as simple as that.
this is a thought that is in everyones mind. whether you like it or not, humans are selfish creatures and are interested in how war will affect them personally. it is a valid question because of our selfishness.
media people know this. we know this. you know this. it may not be the happiest of thoughts, but it is the way that things are.
we are cattle. moo.
- CL0
good point, if not understated. the idea that sometihng is inevitable or encapsulated and pre-sold to the masses is a most disturbing prospect. we are, on a whole, a medicated, yet aggressively self interested people, i admit. Our "American-Capitalist" ideals, though somewhat better in theory than application, can only reinforce, through mass production and mass marketing, the sickness whihc many of us would like to be free of. ????????
- Biofreak0
there is no way out of the sickness but thru mass revolution. there will be no revolution because the sickness has taken us to "prosperity".
fatten the cows then milk them.
revolt? what?... and lose McDonalds? why revolt just to leave ourselves without the creature comforts that we have been working for?
the natural evolution of the human is like this: amoeba>fish>monkey>human>cow>blo...
people will be slaves again. the cattle will own the slaves. and then the revolution will start. we will hate ourselves for not revolting sooner. decide your own evolution and evolve.
what am i talking about? an endless and viscious cycle. moo.
- CL0
funny, on one hand i agree with the "blob by-product of the creature comforts of prosperity sickness" but it will ultimately be pure, distilled FEAR that holds back any stage of evolution. Fear is like water as it flows over our once fearless people. I think we need to, a collective "mass", go without a great deal before we go without fear.
- unfittoprint0
speak for yourself. there are players, and there are player haters.
- CL0
huh?
- exador0
on the other hand, things aren't so bad.
:)racism is on a gradual decline.
think.
back in our grandparents time, a mixed marriage was not only basically forbidden, atleast one or both might get shot.
in our parents time, it was a totall taboo still...but you'd hear about it...if you went to a big city, you could see it in some neighborhoods..and most times, neither got killed for it...just shunned from their families...
in OUR time..
hell, half my friends are in mixed couples (and married now with mixed children) my wife and i included - her - east indian, me white.
thats 50%of my and my wifes close friends...
not too shabby people..see..thats one good thing.
half the problem with things today is that good news, and happy news, ...well...it doesn't sell.
it doesn't motivate people to spend money i guess...so you dn't hear about it..like here's good news..
a couple in Costa Rica adopted a child today
a father and son, long at odds with each other, finally reconciled, in norwaystuff like that...you just don't hear it...
but for chrissakes, with 24 hour news and the need to feed it to the masses..well,
people like a good gladiator show..
so cnn and fox news bring it on..
nothing better than the threat of fullscale war, and invasion to park people infront of a tv...
look at all those eyeballs watching ads..
hmmmmm...
- unfittoprint0
oops wrong thread...
- Biofreak0
dont hate the cattle. hate the herders.
revolt cattle, revolt.
- ********0
yeah, that was pretty unfittopost!!!
LOL..
- CL0
"rome...baby...rome..." i quote charles manson at one of his "parole hearings". we cant live inside of it anymore.
- Vinney20
Agreed. Sick
- tjk_work0
Wow I've never read through a thread with so many good thoughts in it... my favorite:
"nothing better than the threat of fullscale war, and invasion to park people infront of a tv... "
How true this is... I mean would any of us be speaking about weapons of mass destruction if we weren't bombarded with that catch phrase shoved in every damn newstory they can connect it to.
I swear to god if I was working for CNN as a designer right now I'd probably be creating a logo for weapons of mass destruction. To go along with their shodown in Iraq logo.
So I guess the real question do these discussion truly cause growth and change or are they pointless because they can go on forever and ever without conclusion. I personally like to talk about this kind of stuff... it's better than trying to ignore it.
- Biofreak0
this discussion i feel is fruitless.
valid, but ultimatly without possibility of conclusion.
why can't there be peace? because we wont allow it.
it isnt in our nature to be peacful.
revolt. but to what end? history would repeat itself as the scars healed to reform basically what was there before. the same with your flesh. it reforms to appear mostly as it was... just with a slightly different outward appearance. history is a binding force it seems.
god, if you are there... could you please destroy us now? i'd like to go home now.
... ... ... thats what i thought.
- Jamesh0
moo.