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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: MrB
I didn't get a Harumpf out of that guy!
61 posted on 05/07/2012 7:03:44 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: The Duke

It does appear that the problems, and the solutions, are much more global these days. 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.


62 posted on 05/07/2012 7:08:35 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Buckhead; Jim Robinson; kristinn; Travis McGee; Squantos; Southack

Ping for some people not on my ping list. I’m slowly generating more original content for Free Republic. Enjoy


63 posted on 05/07/2012 7:14:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Hodar

We don’t have the money this time.....


64 posted on 05/07/2012 7:15:33 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Skylab

en the countries there tied themselves to the Euro, they gave up considerable sovereignty to do so. So in the sense that there is no ‘one country of Europe’ for lack of a better term, the Euro so intertwines them, financially and by treaties signed to ensure it’s creation, that in a very real sense, they will live or die by it as if they were one country.


65 posted on 05/07/2012 7:16:58 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Tax-chick
Skip the election and let Thomas Sowell choose the next President.

I say skip the election and choose Thomas Sowell as the next President.

66 posted on 05/07/2012 7:20:20 AM PDT by Family Guy (I disagree with what you said, but I'll defend to the death your right to shut up.)
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To: Lazamataz

Please Ping me in the list, but be gentle and I would appreciate a reacharound.


67 posted on 05/07/2012 7:24:18 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: wxgesr

Reacharound promised.


68 posted on 05/07/2012 7:27:50 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: Lazamataz

Please add me to your ping list.

And remember the words of a wise man:

“In an insane world, the sane man must appear insane.” — Spock, Stardate 4325.4


69 posted on 05/07/2012 7:28:41 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Lazamataz

I wanna be the 42nd Satisfied Customer.


70 posted on 05/07/2012 7:29:12 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: spodefly

Will add.


71 posted on 05/07/2012 7:30:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: ctdonath2

42nd will be difficult, presently at 40, however, when I reach 42, you will be added. :)


72 posted on 05/07/2012 7:30:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: starlifter
Harrrummmmpppfffff.


73 posted on 05/07/2012 7:30:52 AM PDT by BlueLancer ("No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full" (Sulla))
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To: ctdonath2; Lazamataz
I wanna be the 42nd Satisfied Customer.

I want to be #43 please.

74 posted on 05/07/2012 7:31:15 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("If I had a son he'd look like B.O.'s lunch" - Rin Tin Tin)
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To: Lazamataz

I was actually thinking about the French election earlier, and for some reason it struck me hard, in a way that didn’t happen when I read about the results yesterday.

Socialism has never worked, can never work-—all it does is ruin lives and nations. And yet people continue to choose it, over and over again. This is the definition of total madness. The French guy says he’s going to tax the rich at a 75% rate. What is that supposed to accomplish, except the same result it’s ALWAYS accomplished?

When people adopt such willful stupidity, and happily sign up for their own ruin, collapse is inevitable.


75 posted on 05/07/2012 7:32:29 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: ctdonath2

Correction: Presently at 39.

Lots of new members today. Must have hit a nerve with this one.


76 posted on 05/07/2012 7:32:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz (To the wall, street occupiers!!!!!)
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To: DuncanWaring; ArrogantBustard; Lazmataz

Kipling’s poem of the was one of my dad’s favorites. I’m flummoxed by the stupidity of the left. I think their drive toward destruction is the result of the loss of God from their minds, hearts and lives.

Good essay, Laz. Thank you.


77 posted on 05/07/2012 7:33:14 AM PDT by MSSC6644 (Defeat Satan: pray the Rosary.)
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To: Lazamataz
We are approaching a crisis-point in human civilization, which socialism and the welfare-state have temporarily deferred, but which cannot be deferred much longer. This is a crisis what Thomas Malthus predicted, but not in the form we're now seeing.

Malthus predicted that population tended to grow to the point where they outstripped the food supply, leading to famine. We've held this point off for a long while, through agricultural technology like the Green Revolution. The good news is that we've been able to substantially increase the harvest yield per acre. The bad news is that the increased yields rely upon fertilizer, pesticides, and equipment, all of which require oil, and the price of oil has been going up.

Where we are at now is a point where an increasing percentage of the world's population has an economic productivity that is below what it costs to feed them, and the ability of the West's middle class to subsidize them is at an end.

The collapse which will come when the Third World and the underclass of the West find out that the cupboard is bare, will be extremely ugly, and extremely violent.

78 posted on 05/07/2012 7:33:27 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell)
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To: Lazamataz

“Reacharound promised”

That’s what ALL the girls say, dammitall2Hellandback!

Thanks!

BTW, I was just in Nicaragua and there are large billboards of Ortega, promising Chritianity, Socialism, and something else which escapes me. None of hte drivers or locals that I spoke with liked his socialism promise. A very poor country.


79 posted on 05/07/2012 7:34:59 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: Lazamataz

Can I pick up a French Chateau cheap?


80 posted on 05/07/2012 7:36:20 AM PDT by woofie (It takes three villages and a forest of woodland creatures to raise a child in Obamaville)
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