Posted on 05/03/2015 7:43:52 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
--SNIP-- "The Lord of the Flies" was a novel written in 1954 by the English author William Golding. It describes what happens to a group of upper-class English schoolboys when their plane crash-lands on a deserted island and all the adults are killed. The kids try to build a society of their own, but with no adult guidance, they descend into tribalism and savagery.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
And Piggy pays the price, if I remember the novel.
When The Music Stops: How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence
The novel about English schoolboys aside, I'm sitting here thinking about the use of "descend".
Oh, this is about the movie/book.
I thought Obama was visiting Baltimore today.
Problem solved.
And miss a perfect day for 18 holes?
Yes, Piggy represented intellect and the rational side of civilization. Today he would be referred to as “too white” or “old school”.
I saw that show. We need black fathers out of prison,so they can mentor their sons on drug dealing!
The ghetto culture works against all of that.
I would like to see certain cities (Detroit, Newark, Baltimore, etc.) attempt to create a new way forward -- they should all try different approaches to see what works best. I would recommend local businesses (there isn't going to be a steel plant, an Intel microprocessor plant, or an Auto plant employing 20,000 people), community urban farming, and true neighborhood policing. Make a place like Baltimore into something like a City State where the people in the city didn't depend on the feds or the state, or rich workers commuting in from the suburbs. Find a way to take the current demographics and build a system where they simply have to stand on their own two feet as individuals.
You're not going to return to Detroit in the 1950s -- which was quite a good place. Find a way to create a 21st century on a new model. We don't know what that looks like -- we need to find out. Not every city can be Manhattan. And no city should be Baltimore.
Lord Foul was in DC today conferring with his own flies.
#BlackFliesMatter
True. Also the ‘Tragedy of the Commons’. When there is no “Ownership Society”, there is no property rights.
I heard an activist criticize the charges brought against the kid that was caught on camera trashing a police car. his parents made him turn himself in. He’s facing $500,000 fine and 8 years in prison. (When hundreds of protestors were released without charges). The activist said that was wrong because THEY paid for the police car after all.
You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
WRONG. Put the chilluns inside with their ‘baby daddies’.
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“This considered, the kingdom of darkness... is nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light...”
- Hobbes.
Also, to paraphrase same: “follow the money”
This is actually a good read even if the author doesn’t want to talk about the obvious reasons for the problems of having no good adult models for the yutes in West Balmer.
When did Baltimore ascend from tribalism and savagery? It would need to ascend first before it could possibly descend, wouldn't it?
At some point we are going to have to end the welfare transfers.
The first order of business.... Turn off the Obamaphones or at least end the data plan. Limit them to outgoing 911 only, and incoming form paying phones, no incoming calls from other Obamaphones.
End the EBT. Make them use food stamps coupons and they can only be used on food.
Clothing will be only available from those same stores. No Nike, or FUBU or any of that. No names on any of it. Just basic clothes, and basic shoes/sneakers.
You want more than that...get a job.
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