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I can't explain it. I suppose a lot of it is because young people are so easily influenced and feel like they have to do the latest thing. And a lot of
adults have the minds of children these days. Brunner wrote that in 1975 or so and the Internet was then just a network of government and universities
and defense contractors. Stand on Zanzibar was before that but we seem to have arrived at his vision and he didn't know about the Internet but did
envision a massive computer (actually we have a massive network of computers) that had a form of intelligence.
With events happening so fast it's hard to focus on one or even a few important events. We are looking at the Trump Administration making progress
even if it seems small. A few hundred of the worst illegals deported and twenty or so million to go seems like not much but every deportation is one
less that can cause a
horror like this.
Sadly there are millions of these tragedies waiting to happen. It's hard sometimes, most of the time, to live with the anger aroused by such things.
In my alternate universes the perpetrator is dragged out and hanged in the street by the people who live in that universe. And then they give the
'prosecutor' the same treatment. But this is the universe we live in. I wish I could believe that one day our own world might be so - the ones who
did the damage punished, whether life imprisonment in gulags of the type they created or public hanging (I have trouble deciding on hanging or imprisonment -
maybe a mix with random selection just for fun). These people are unspeakingably evil and if there is a reason for the eternal torment described in Revelation
this is it.
Candidius@MyndCryme
I agree and sometimes want to go to one of those universes but we are stuck here. When I see these people - almost without exception beautiful normal people with
ordinary lives and families and friends and love them having those lives extinguished by thorougly evil and completely useless people who would not have been here to
do it but for the actions of thoroughly evil people who made it possible for them to do it.
For now I hope that things will improve. President Trump seems for now to be a
Teflon President.
The predicted economic crash hasn't happened yet and in fact the economy is improving. What happens when he visits the Middle East next week will be interesting -
signals from that sector suggest that he will be warmly welcomed and cut come deals. Cynical as they are they are - the ones with the money anyway - about profit
and power in their own part of the world. There might even be some kind of deal to fix Gaza. We can hope.
Ukraine is another matter but Putin respects strength and there are plenty of inducements for President Trump to offer. As for Iran it may take another kind of
inducement but we'll have to see how far they want to push it. China was in trouble before the tariffs and it has only gotten worse. Expect a deal before long.
Not that they won't cheat but there you are. The next couple of weeks should be interesting.
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees,
who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he
escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the
blood that is now spilled in the world. Reality is an absolute,
existence is an absolute, a speck of dust is an absolute and
so is a human life. Whether you live or die is an absolute.
Whether you have a piece of bread or not, is an absolute.
Whether you eat your bread or see it vanish into a looter's
stomach, is an absolute.
Ayn Rand
In an age when we have more choice than ever before, more mobility, more
information, more opportunity to fulfill ourselves, how is it that people
can prefer to be identical?
John Brunner (The Shockwave Rider)
