Posted on 06/29/2022 4:34:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There is a certain amount of courage that goes along with our responsibilities as adults.
There was a recent study that showed that many of the people who are attracted to gatekeeper jobs, like receptionists, are psychopaths. That seems a little extreme, but if it’s true, it means we have a lot of psychopaths walking around this country right now, and I’m not just talking about office workers. Many of us have built walls around our lives. I think it started with answering machines screening calls, then screening people through social media, and even screening out cashiers by going through the self-checkout at the store. It has created a situation where our lives are completely insulated. Every experience is carefully filtered and curated. Each moment of our day is mapped out to every predictable detail. There are no surprises if everyone we interact with is a known quantity. All this makes me wonder if we are paying a hidden price for the lifestyle we have chosen.
We have been in a culture war for a long time. We fight and fight, but the culture seems to grow colder and colder. In the public square, life is shamelessly treated as cheap. Whether it is pro-abortion protesters, Antifa, or warmongers, there seems to be a brazen contempt for humanity. What if our lack of progress is because we have been ignoring one of the fronts in the war? What if that’s because we have shielded ourselves from the action? They say war can be a long, grinding slog. Winning the culture may be about engaging in the battle on a more granular level. Not hand-to-hand combat, but heart-to-heart.
We are surrounded by people who need our help, but modern culture has separated us from them.
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The changes in society are intentional. The globalist psychopaths are the ones coordinating it.
Sounds like the author of this piece is a psychopath! Or at least has a bad case of OCD.
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There are not that many psychopaths’, but they tend to rise on the societal ladder a lot faster.
I guess getting up requires to trample on lots of bodies.
There’s a pretty wide chasm between OCD and psychopath.
I know some OCD people and none have made dresses or lampshades out of women…
I think the author is right in some of the analysis. Since Obama became President, we found ourselves buying property way out in the country. We built a place that we only leave now (a lot due to covid) to go to the store or the doctors. Now with fuel at $5 we don’t go camping in our RV. The last time we got gas for the lawnmower and our Ford...it was $137! Our old RV takes 80 gal. No way we can do. I got a feeling there are a lot of folks like us. We don’t trust a lot of folks nowadays.
That said, I was sort of joking in my original comment since the author was talking about psychopaths. After all, what kind of person has the following (from the article)...certainly not me.
Every experience is carefully filtered and curated. Each moment of our day is mapped out to every predictable detail. There are no surprises if everyone we interact with is a known quantity.
That’s a “tin foil crowd” thought by him.
I concede that it’s certainly not normal.
One thing is for certain, anyone whose “each moment of our day is mapped out to every predictable detail” doesn’t have cats.;-)
True, likely doesn’t have a girlfriend either.
That is a great video worthy of its own thread.
My kids rotate twenty minutes a day with our rotary mower. The gas mower sits in the shed. It costs us $37 to drive to town and back. My favorite Walmart coffee went from $5.99 to $9.99 since the usurpation.
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