Posted on 07/09/2020 7:43:56 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
The Birdwatcher who the Karen called 911 on has the right attitude. "People are going to do whatever they're going to do", says my Doctor, Mohammad R. (I call it "the philosophical school of 'inevitism' ", it has revolutionized my thinking, I disregard more and more of what other people are doing now, and pay more and more attention to my own actions.)
The Birdwatcher won't cooperate with the NY D.A., I hope he doesn't run into trouble with it. He says we should leave the Karen alone, she's already paid the price. Only the Birdwatcher is coming out ahead.
The Medievals (they weren't stupid clodhoppers, they built the Cathedrals and discovered Science), considered the eye to be an instrument of the will rather than just of perception. Looking can be criminal, as in Peeping Tom of Lady Godiva. But when the Birdwatcher was caught on camera, he showed his fundamental common sense, that used to be called 'temperance'.
Why won't people with cameras stop using them to posture with?
Could someone have affected history, by anonymously getting the sound portion of Ferguson MO, Michael Brown threatening the Cop with bodily injury?
Could Rodney King's role in the deaths of innocent riot victims have been different if the sound track had ANONYMOUSLY shown him defying legitimate police authority?
Would Rodney King have been acting that out if he'd known the sound track would have been broadcast around the world?
Would he have later been heard proclaiming pathetically "Can't we all just get along?" What would his "getting along" have sounded like, with Police who are sworn to put themselves in harm's way to protect him?
A TikTok video that recently went viral on social media showed a recent Harvard graduate threatening to stab anyone who said "all lives matter." In her melodrama, she tried to sound intimidating with her histrionics.
She won a huge audience as she intended. But her video also came to the attention of the company that was going to give her an internship later this summer, Deloitte, which decided it didn't want to add an intern who threatened to kill strangers who said something she didn't like.
She fought back tears while complaining how unfair the world had been to her. Her initial TikTok post had earned cruel pushback from the social media jungle she had courted. Deloitte, she sobbed, was mean and hurtful. And she wanted the world to share her pain.
The Harvard grad instantly became an unwitting poster girl for the current protest movement and the violence that has accompanied it. What turns off millions of Americans about the statue toppling, the looting, the threats and the screaming in the faces of police is the schizophrenic behavior of so many of the would-be revolutionaries.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2020/07/09/the-fragility-of-the-woke-n2572092
A camera is a camera, nothing more.
dunno, but I’m eternally and deeply thankful that everyone wasn’t walking around with a video camera in their pocket when I was in college.
One must will to do good and avoid evil.
First step in moral behaviors.
A smartphone has a camera, yes, but it will never replace a true, bona fide, TTL camera.
Both items are instruments of the will.
I carry a Canon SX620HS around my neck most of the day. Most shots are for facebook but some are for family and friends.
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