The Danger Of A Successful Society: Absurdity

American Thinker ^ | 26 Jun, 2025 | Vince Coyner

[MtnClimber]

When purposeless people have time, they start creating problems where none exist and “solutions” where none are needed.

I spend a lot of time talking about how Western civilization, particularly as driven by the United States, is easily the greatest that mankind has yet created. If one looks at it objectively, it’s not even close. The list of things that are part of the everyday life of people around the world is basically a list of things that the West invented or developed. From cars to planes to advanced agriculture to elevators to plastic and mobile phones and computers and DNA and much, much more.

But every now and then, something happens that makes me question that. A couple of years ago, I watched Matt Walsh’s What Is A Woman, in which he spends most of the movie talking to leftists and doctors as he tries to get a definitive answer to the question in the title. Most of the time, he’s unsuccessful.

The most interesting part of the movie, however, didn’t take place at a feminist conference or in a studio, but rather in Africa when Walsh was speaking with Maasai tribesmen. When asked a simple question about whether a man can become a woman, he was quickly given a definitive “No.” Straightforward, no debate, no hedging. Essentially 180 degrees from the insanity that Matt encountered in the United States.

This was brought back to me last week when reading about how Justice Thomas destroyed the “expert class” in United States v. Skrmetti. The Justice took direct aim at the notion that Americans must ignore their common sense, relinquish their lives, and give up their constitutional rights to those the elites have pronounced as “experts.” As we all learned during COVID and with “expert” analysis of the Hunter

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism; vincecoyner

[MtnClimber]

It seems that you have to be insane to be an elite expert.

[AZJeep]

When purposeless people have time, they start creating problems where none exist and “solutions” where none are needed.
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Exactly on target!
This is the biggest problem of our society.
Our biggest “problems” are the invented ones!
Somebody, who arrives here from a poor country is just laughing on the “sufferings” of Americans.

And, as liberals try to solve these “problems”, we, the taxpayers, are forever stuck with their “solutions”.

Trump is the first presidents, trying to undo all that, but, well, he has a lot to do!!!

[Tell It Right]

IMHO Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical farming invention wasn’t as great as the writer makes it out to be. Before him were many others with creative ways to farm smarter not harder. Even with simple things like planting cranberry bushes in bogs so that during harvest time you can beat them off of the bush, fill the bog with water, and drag the floating berries from the top of the water. A process that I hear dates back to the Pilgrims. So McComick’s invention deserves a huge attaboy, but doesn’t IMHO deserve to rank him as the man most responsible for moving us away from an agricultural society.

IMHO what’s most responsible for that is the Modern Warm Period that the left tells us to hate. During the warm periods crop yields are higher, rain patterns are more predictable, and deaths by plague are lower.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Soft times create soft men.

Soft men create hard times.

Hard times create hard men.

Hard men create soft times.

[redfreedom]

I’ve watched this actually happen at a job I had once. Middle management wanted to promote two clowns. So a problem (imaginary) was created with a piece of equipment that was vital to the organization. They pretended to tirelessly work on the imaginary problem, found a solution and got it to work again. They got their promotion.

This happens all over society. The democrats love the concept. They need problems to promise voters they will fix. So they create them, get elected and only make the problems worse. That’s how blue cities are created. People are too dumb to realize it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Posted many years ago.

When Absurdity Became Law (Satire)

[MtnClimber]

That was good. I wish Rush was still here.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Written by my late Father in law back in 2002. He was a rabid Rush fan.