Allonzee

I'm of the opinion the societies that brought heavy industry and Flags aka "this is mine time to die" are the people's with the poisonous blood.

The only humans that weren't cancerous, like the Native Americans that lived in perpetual homeostasis with the Earth, were largely eradicated in the name of metastasis, oh I'm sorry, wonderous growth.

You know, that thing that's destroying the entire habitat for humans effectively permanently.

Apt metaphor of our times.

Greenwashing, social media highlight reels, worship of the affluent, grind culture, etc.

Putting a fake, stepford face to obfuscate the horrors we refuse to address, using unethical(theft) technology being shoved down our throats for profit no less.

It's a shame that the next generation of capitalist nepos are raised aware that their family hoard is fed by burning the world, and that same hoard insulates them from climate change induced mass famine\drought\etc.

The people that make the important decisions and own both of our parties don't lose sleep over their avarice, and impress that dynastically.

We need to reign in our owner class, or no amount of begging will help. They know what they're doing, and know they can protect and insulate themselves and theirs by convincing you to consume more than you need with propaganda and regulatory capture.

I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.

There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path.

The Japanese are one of the few countries worthy of even more pity than us Americans when it comes to slaving for and being defined by their vocation.

I agree with you completely, but people who don't play the meaningless game of career trajectory are literally shunned by family there for it.

Honestly this is a big reason I can't root for our society in its current form.

Everyone in an area, barring diagnosed disability requiring special education, should go to the same PUBLIC schools to develop empathy with Americans who don't live behind their guard gates, to have similar academic starting points if even a partial "meritocracy" is something we'd like to try to actually aspire to, and to reverse rich parents having no skin in the game and forcing them to advocate FOR public schools with their power rather than lobby to further destroy them for tax cuts because being greedy sociopaths is kind of their thing.

The idea that a child's future prospects are so dependant on their parent's socioeconomic status, rather than solely the child's aptitude and motivation, makes this whole place nothing but a bad clown show to me. Feudalism with a marketing team.

In a country where intelligent and hard working children are lost to schools we starved to cut wealthy sociopath's taxes, while dynastic entitled nitwits like George W Bush and Donald Trump literally cannot fail despite barely being able to walk without tripping on their own shoes or bankrupting yet another company, trying just makes one a sucker.

I understand intimately, my friend!

Yeah. It's carved to be vilified, which is hypocritical not just because there are other equivalent harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure, there are several considerably more harmful harms we allow young people to pursue for pleasure.

All because an old newspaper magnate's paper pulp business interests were threatened by hemp and it became tradition.

You can cause severe brain damage and kill people with alcohol, tobacco, and concussions. The studies I've seen about Marijuana in teens handwring over <5 IQ points with chronic use.

It's inconsistent to the extreme.