I understand them preferring to keep us dumb. But why would they prefer to keep us from killing ourselves? What would they gain from that? World overpopulation is a thing. There are more people than resources. Does everyone make do with less (ha ha, in an economy that relies on overconsumption to stay afloat? Not likely!!) or do we gently seek to expedite their departure a little more quickly? 'Whoops, there goes another one of our cherished employees. Ah dangit. Well, look on the bright side. At least we don't have to pay their long-term sick leave or tolerate their snivelling inefficiency any more... Let's get a bright shiny new one!' The world makes me sick. 'Yes, dearie, what was that? You're worried about your grandkids' inheritance? Well boy, do I have the solution for you. Just write 'do not resuscitate', and sign here.' I was visiting a wise, venerable old man from church in respite care and remarked in horror at a document in his portfolio with 'DNR' on it, he said it had something to do with the fact that he had said he didn't want a kidney transplant. I had known him as a stoic, he was a former naval officer and had the tattoo to match, but now he wept in front of me from his nursing home bed, his face yellow, tubes in his nose to help him breathe, 'I'm no use to anyone now. All I do is take. I might as well not be here.'. It was heartbreaking; this former pillar of the community. 'Don't want to pay for your kid? Well your family, community and the state don't want to either. Hello abortion.'. To this day I wonder what my little sister might have been like - I've decided it would have been a girl. It haunts me like an unresolved horror story.
It's as if people were as disposable as everything else. You actively have to believe that here's a kind of abstract value that individual human beings have in themselves, to avoid equating their life's worth with their economic viability. I'm not sure if many of the elites make the distinction between the two clear in practice, even if they do in theory. If these elites who are profiting from our disposability are the 'movers and shakers' of our culture, it's interesting to see that people are being encouraged to view abortion and euthanasia as means of 'empowerment' and that even suicide is undergoing a PR makeover...
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I understand them preferring to keep us dumb. But why would they prefer to keep us from killing ourselves? What would they gain from that? World overpopulation is a thing. There are more people than resources. Does everyone make do with less (ha ha, in an economy that relies on overconsumption to stay afloat? Not likely!!) or do we gently seek to expedite their departure a little more quickly? 'Whoops, there goes another one of our cherished employees. Ah dangit. Well, look on the bright side. At least we don't have to pay their long-term sick leave or tolerate their snivelling inefficiency any more... Let's get a bright shiny new one!' The world makes me sick. 'Yes, dearie, what was that? You're worried about your grandkids' inheritance? Well boy, do I have the solution for you. Just write 'do not resuscitate', and sign here.' I was visiting a wise, venerable old man from church in respite care and remarked in horror at a document in his portfolio with 'DNR' on it, he said it had something to do with the fact that he had said he didn't want a kidney transplant. I had known him as a stoic, he was a former naval officer and had the tattoo to match, but now he wept in front of me from his nursing home bed, his face yellow, tubes in his nose to help him breathe, 'I'm no use to anyone now. All I do is take. I might as well not be here.'. It was heartbreaking; this former pillar of the community. 'Don't want to pay for your kid? Well your family, community and the state don't want to either. Hello abortion.'. To this day I wonder what my little sister might have been like - I've decided it would have been a girl. It haunts me like an unresolved horror story.
It's as if people were as disposable as everything else. You actively have to believe that here's a kind of abstract value that individual human beings have in themselves, to avoid equating their life's worth with their economic viability. I'm not sure if many of the elites make the distinction between the two clear in practice, even if they do in theory. If these elites who are profiting from our disposability are the 'movers and shakers' of our culture, it's interesting to see that people are being encouraged to view abortion and euthanasia as means of 'empowerment' and that even suicide is undergoing a PR makeover...