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Kwek00 · 41-45, M
You don't have to reinvent hot water...
Just look at other countries, the measures they take and the results that they get.
Another thing that needs to happen, is a cultural shift. Certain myths need to be questioned. Like the idea that having a gun keeps tyrants at bay, is ludicrous considering historical events. Also, using this argument and actively voting for an authoritarian demagogue who is installing a dictatorship... makes no sense.
Just look at other countries, the measures they take and the results that they get.
Another thing that needs to happen, is a cultural shift. Certain myths need to be questioned. Like the idea that having a gun keeps tyrants at bay, is ludicrous considering historical events. Also, using this argument and actively voting for an authoritarian demagogue who is installing a dictatorship... makes no sense.
Some things aren’t like gravity or the law of thermo-dynamics; they don’t have to happen. They happen only if people are stupid enough to allow them to happen. Here, on this island, we haven’t allowed them to happen, so the “cosmic joke” hasn’t been played on us. We’ve had good sanitation for the best part of the century-and still we’re not overcrowded, we’re not miserable, we’re not under dictatorship.
And the reason is simple: “We chose to behave in a sensible and realistic way.”
- Aldous Huxley, Island
And the reason is simple: “We chose to behave in a sensible and realistic way.”
- Aldous Huxley, Island
