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2021-03-16 -Great Cultural Revolution

The Human Need To Feel Important -- and How Government Squelches It

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-16 05:22|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Therefore, given the deep human need to feel important, people will look elsewhere for their importance....

"Looking elsewhere" (avoid examining the governmental process) is the goal of government. Simply stay within your row and continue to pick. Important, like-minded people, people within the beltway, the media, and Hollywood will decide your concerns and needs.

Young people awaiting birth, and old people waiting to pass on are not important. Only the deciders are important.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-16 05:59|| 2021-03-16 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Man is fundamentally hierarchical, tribal and territorial.

A lot of people just want to be left alone in a benign environment. Government (to impose one's power on others) is seldomly benign.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-16 07:16|| 2021-03-16 07:16|| Front Page Top

#3 ^But, frequently, necessary.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-16 08:29|| 2021-03-16 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 RE #3: While government may be a necessary evil, keeping it limited in scope is essential. All governments tend to grow, in order to expand and feel even more important. Keeping it trimmed back is the constant work of patriots. It hasn't worked well since the beginning of the 20th century, and the government we have now is the result. We need a MAJOR pruning, perhaps even some uprooting and clearing, in order to return to what little government we truly need.

Posted by Old Patriot 2021-03-16 12:54|| 2021-03-16 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 You believe that the process is reversible?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-16 13:32|| 2021-03-16 13:32|| Front Page Top

#6 People can invent all sorts of silly things to "need" when not starving.

Posted by magpie 2021-03-16 13:32|| 2021-03-16 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Being Karen makes you feel important. Worrying about the environment, systemic racism and pronouns makes you feel important. It’s a form of morality you can take refuge in after abandoning everything of real importance.

Posted by Speng Snaviting6874 2021-03-16 16:28|| 2021-03-16 16:28|| Front Page Top

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