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The Insanity of Being Human (LazVanity)
May 7, 2012 | by Lazamataz

Posted on 05/07/2012 6:07:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz

Cats are genetically wired to behave in ways that humans see as insane. They often torment and play with their prey, for example, in a manner that we would call 'sadistic'. Sadism, to humans, is not a sane characteristic.

Sometimes it seems that humans are also genetically wired to behave insanely. Let us look at the votes recently taken in Greece, France, and Germany. In all three cases, the concept of austerity (read: fiscal responsibility) has been completely rejected by their populations. In one case, France, the populace actually elected a labeled Socialist.

The financial systems of most of Europe are in near-collapse and the only thing that might have saved them from ruin was fiscal responsibility. Yet the people voted against it, so that they may have a few more weeks of government cheese and 32-hour work-weeks. The Europeans, in a collective rebellion against that which exists, threw off the shackles of reality, and slipped from under the yoke of truth.

To deny reality, and proceed apace in a destructive fashion, is insanity.

The reality of the situation is that Europe will eventually -- and quickly! -- be subject to the laws of economics. In a very short time-frame, the system will collapse in its entirety. At that point, ANY paper currency will be meaningless, and the insane actions of the Europeans will ultimately be at fault. Once paper currency, of any nationality and of any denomination, becomes worthless, chaos will result. From the fires of chaos, World Wars are born.

The shortsightedness of a selfish public, who is unwilling to face the harsh truths, is a worldwide phenomenon. It is as if the entire world decided to embark on a worldwide Argentinian experiment -- in which their currency collapsed -- and will probably concluding with Zimbabwean results.

It appears that the solution, albeit one impossible to forestall this collapse, is decidedly local. It is inside one’s self. To become less selfish, to become a person of character, to think of serving others before you serve yourself: These are the character traits that would have prompted people to have voted for fiscal responsibility in Europe, instead of the few remaining months of government largesse.

Tough times create tough and selfless people. Soft times create a soft and selfish people. The soft and the amoral have spoken. The collapse will proceed. The suffering and bloodshed that will result will be Biblical. One hopes that the result, a generation from now, is a tougher and more moral people.

Anything else would be insanity.


TOPICS: FReeper Editorial; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: currency; economy; eu; europe; vanity
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To: DuncanWaring

Okay, got you at the coveted postion #46!


101 posted on 05/07/2012 8:14:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Lazamataz
One issue is that the various governments of the world are far more efficient, far more ‘professional’, and have far better equipment than ever before for putting down French Revolutions.

The French and American Revolutions occurred at points where the arms and communications abilities available to governments were not majorly superior to what was available to the common people.

Back when conflicts were won by whichever side showed up with more motivated people with swords, then you could have Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic.

When expensively armored and trained soldiers could defeat larger numbers of people with just swords, you had the Empire.

When even-more-expensively armored knights on horseback could defeat foot soldiers, you had feudalism.

When the king's cannon could knock down castle walls, and longbowmen could penetrate plate armor, then you had kingdoms.

When firearms became widely available to the common people, you had republics.

When tanks, artillery, and machine-guns dominated, you could have totalitarian dictatorships.

102 posted on 05/07/2012 8:15:31 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
You forgot to mention one other thing. With the coming collapse, that will pretty much engulf every nation on Earth within a very short amount of time, there will be the rise of a Leftist, world dictator.

Shades of Revelations.... yikes.....

103 posted on 05/07/2012 8:16:43 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

You continue to amaze me, Laz. Not surprise me — (I expect all kinds of stuff from you) but this sort of thinking and analysis is why I love FR .

May I please be added to your list? Any old number is fine with me!


104 posted on 05/07/2012 8:16:57 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: Lazamataz

Please add me to your ping list. Add me twice.


105 posted on 05/07/2012 8:18:17 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: PapaBear3625
Brilliant. Simply brilliant. May serve as a seed for another editorial....

..... provided the Admin Mod's don't tear my work off the editorial sidebar, though!

106 posted on 05/07/2012 8:19:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: humblegunner

I will add you twice, but I can only count you once. Check my home page for verification of your two entries. :)


107 posted on 05/07/2012 8:20:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Mycroft Holmes
This guy

looks a lot him!

Maybe HE is the alien?
108 posted on 05/07/2012 8:22:06 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: All

Take that, all you non-46ers!


109 posted on 05/07/2012 8:24:01 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MSSC6644; Lazamataz

Don’t be flummoxed FRiend. There IS a reason for the left’s insanity.
T.S. Eliot said it well:

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm—(me: That part is arguable)— but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

I get being confounded by it all, but that’s the core of why they purposefully ignore the crumbling ruins before their very eyes.
They must maintain their ‘o-so-noble-and-caring’ self-image(s), false as it is.


110 posted on 05/07/2012 8:24:49 AM PDT by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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To: Exit148

Got ya in there!


111 posted on 05/07/2012 8:25:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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See, this is the reason I want an editorial sidebar position.

Once the listing scrolls off of latest-posts, it dies.

Maybe my work is crap and should die, but I feel it is good and shouldn't.

112 posted on 05/07/2012 8:31:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Family Guy

If only ... but he wouldn’t accept.


113 posted on 05/07/2012 8:35:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Skip the election and let Thomas Sowell choose the next President.)
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To: Lazamataz

Add me right after that little guy...


114 posted on 05/07/2012 8:39:50 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Lazamataz

Thanks. Got me a #48. It fits me just right, altho Humblegunner almost messed it up trying to grab 2 #s.

Back to France — I wonder what the attitude will be toward the Muslims and headscarfs and all — under Hollande.


115 posted on 05/07/2012 8:45:49 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yes. I realized this morning that crazy has reached the point of no return.


116 posted on 05/07/2012 8:47:18 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: Lazamataz

A Laz ping list? Does a toy come with the burger? If so, can you add me?


117 posted on 05/07/2012 8:47:52 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator; Jim Robinson
THANK YOU LOVELY PEOPLE!

I will continue to try to write better and better and develop a quality pool of material for OUR LOVELY WEBSITE.

118 posted on 05/07/2012 9:07:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: MileHi

You are IN THERE now, bro, and I will literally put you after the little guy. See my homepage for confirmation of this fact.


119 posted on 05/07/2012 9:10:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: mnehring

You are in the coveted position # 50!


120 posted on 05/07/2012 9:11:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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