I knew these wasn’t going to well when I used Epitaph to see Trump winning re-election, King Crimson can’t skip me past the next four years…
Jojo references aside, I should listen to more of that band; Court of the Crimson King, which I listened to in order to try to better understand Diavolo’s character, was pretty damn fire
Oh, King Crimson is the finest wild ride ever. They did things that couldn’t be done anywhere else. However, I don’t know anything about Jojo. I just started listening to KC in the 90s, when they were producing their last memorable original works. They are truly amazing. My favorite albums are the one you mentioned, Discipline, Lark’s tongues in aspic and Thrak, though, Red is highly praised by most people. Also, if you can watch them live, even these days with the band getting old, they are an absolute delight.
Why is this happening? Why did the stupids get so powerful?
This isn’t unique to the modern moment. Your parents called their elders stupid. Alphas will call Millennials stupid. But if we want to get to the real disparity between ideologies - the reason so many people are getting MAGA pilled in the face of seemingly obvious disaster - it really does just boil down to our mass media poisoning our brains.
Fifty years of misinformation, con-artistry, and industrial scale commercial fraud has given birth to a population that is simultaneously desperate for a White Knight to come save them and so steeped in cynicism that they accept idiots and assholes in power as the best we’re capable of doing. Whether its Trump or Biden, Bezos or Musk, Wolf Blitzer or Alex Jones, there’s this baseline understanding that “My guy might suck but the other guy is so much worse”.
And the deadliest poison of them all is the pride - the implicit assumption that you can’t trust anyone but yourself because you’re surrounded by morons. We’re increasingly alienated from one another and exposed to manipulation by computerized algorithms A/B testing us for our biases. Divided from one another, with our hatreds toward The Other inflamed while our access to basic necessities increasingly gated, we’re pushed into deeper and more vulgar polarized camps micro-managed by demagogues and other influencers.
“The Stupid” is just the fear - of our looming poverty, of our dangerously polarized neighbors, of declining health and diminished free time. It’s not idiocy, its anxiety. We’re acting rashly because we all seem to know we’re being boxed in for the slaughter and none of us trust anyone else to recognize that we need to work together to escape it.
It’s not the stupids, but the greeds first and foremost. You can look back at the greedy mf’s that started every single thing and they weren’t punished.
The greeds get away with it because they keep shouting “HE DID IT!” and the stupids keep falling for it.
One of my “favorite” examples of this was when Ronald Reagan murdered American Manufacturing jobs, causing mass layoffs and unemployment throughout the country, and a record high of people on welfare to deal with the job displacement… Causing the first signs of generations being born with lower standards of living than their parents.
So people naturally tarred and feathered Reagan, he’s remembered as a monster, and is the reason why the Republican Party is a faded memory that we only bring up when teaching school children about why we don’t have a Two-Party System. That wacky Trickle Down Economics… I tell ya, glad no one’s dumb enough to buy that anymore…
Oh sorry, that’s what happened in the prime timeline, here reality doesn’t run off of people learning from mistakes, this is a Murphy’s Law Ruins Based Timeline where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
Here Reagan invented the folktale of the “Welfare Queen” to imply that black people were getting more than “their fair share” from this welfare, and that Americans would be doing fine if only this specific group wasn’t taking more welfare than they should be allowed.
A story that doesn’t make any sense since if black people were getting more in Welfare, wouldn’t Reagan be the one making that call? Ah but they thought of that, Reagan blamed a shadowy cabal of Democrats for getting the black people more then “their fair share” in a scheme to “overthrow whitey” in the name of “liberal guilt”
A story that also shouldn’t work as Democrats had neither the motive nor enough control over the government to pull off this little trick, but people are stupid, so they bought it hook, line, and sinker.
You know our reality isn’t the prime timeline, because none of this makes any fucking sense and it’s only bad writing that lets people be this fucking stupid. I can see the person in the audience cringing at the fact this reality is self-aware and seems to think pointing out the bad writing is the same as doing better.
I’m sorry audience, I wish I could join you as merely an observer who has the option to watch a better movie or read a better book, one not bound by this bullshit, but… alas, that is my fate.
So if I die in the movie, I wake up in my trailer as the actress and enjoy the privileged life that entails? Maybe I’m played by a cischick with huge cans, that’d be awesome!
Owning your own home is a privilege, which wasn’t available to the general public until 19-20 century depending on a country. And it’s still not available to many in some countries.
Have you ever heard about the housing crisis? The UK for example has a 4.3 million homes deficit. That’s 6.3% of the population if you want to give everyone a house. But if accounting for families of at least two people, then it’s more like 12.6% of the population without homes.
The situation is very similar in most developed countries, especially in Europe. Countries like Italy and Poland have severe overcrowding, 35% of Poles don’t have enough living space (meaning they live in house shares and only have one room to themselves).
So yeah, it is a privilege. Always was. And as the worldwide population grows, housing will only become even more scarce as land is a finite resource.
Thats already where the intention starts, I never specified there are enough homes, for a reason. Not enough homes existing is just to create an artificial crisis
we have more than enough to provide housing for all in developed countries
That’s false. There is not enough housing all over the world, with just a few exceptions like Singapore. But it’s much better than 100-200-300 years ago. And since this thread is about home ownership specifically, home owners are only a fraction of those who actually live in good enough accommodation.
Thus returning to the original point - owning a house is a privilege. Always was and will be for a very long time. First we need to solve the housing crisis and at the very least provide council housing, but that’s not ownership, it’s just a better rent. And if the global population continues to grow then ownership will become even less accessible.
I’m about to turn 39. I just want a home or apartment of my own. Why is this happening? Why did the stupids get so powerful?
King Crimson’s Epitaph lyrics, from 1969, sing:
Well, knowledge is a deadly friend, when no one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind, I fear, is in the hands of fools.
I knew these wasn’t going to well when I used Epitaph to see Trump winning re-election, King Crimson can’t skip me past the next four years…
Jojo references aside, I should listen to more of that band; Court of the Crimson King, which I listened to in order to try to better understand Diavolo’s character, was pretty damn fire
Oh, King Crimson is the finest wild ride ever. They did things that couldn’t be done anywhere else. However, I don’t know anything about Jojo. I just started listening to KC in the 90s, when they were producing their last memorable original works. They are truly amazing. My favorite albums are the one you mentioned, Discipline, Lark’s tongues in aspic and Thrak, though, Red is highly praised by most people. Also, if you can watch them live, even these days with the band getting old, they are an absolute delight.
Have you tried Necrophagist’s Epitaph? Technical death metal is a much more appropriate genre for these trying times.
This isn’t unique to the modern moment. Your parents called their elders stupid. Alphas will call Millennials stupid. But if we want to get to the real disparity between ideologies - the reason so many people are getting MAGA pilled in the face of seemingly obvious disaster - it really does just boil down to our mass media poisoning our brains.
Fifty years of misinformation, con-artistry, and industrial scale commercial fraud has given birth to a population that is simultaneously desperate for a White Knight to come save them and so steeped in cynicism that they accept idiots and assholes in power as the best we’re capable of doing. Whether its Trump or Biden, Bezos or Musk, Wolf Blitzer or Alex Jones, there’s this baseline understanding that “My guy might suck but the other guy is so much worse”.
And the deadliest poison of them all is the pride - the implicit assumption that you can’t trust anyone but yourself because you’re surrounded by morons. We’re increasingly alienated from one another and exposed to manipulation by computerized algorithms A/B testing us for our biases. Divided from one another, with our hatreds toward The Other inflamed while our access to basic necessities increasingly gated, we’re pushed into deeper and more vulgar polarized camps micro-managed by demagogues and other influencers.
“The Stupid” is just the fear - of our looming poverty, of our dangerously polarized neighbors, of declining health and diminished free time. It’s not idiocy, its anxiety. We’re acting rashly because we all seem to know we’re being boxed in for the slaughter and none of us trust anyone else to recognize that we need to work together to escape it.
It’s not the stupids, but the greeds first and foremost. You can look back at the greedy mf’s that started every single thing and they weren’t punished.
The greeds get away with it because they keep shouting “HE DID IT!” and the stupids keep falling for it.
One of my “favorite” examples of this was when Ronald Reagan murdered American Manufacturing jobs, causing mass layoffs and unemployment throughout the country, and a record high of people on welfare to deal with the job displacement… Causing the first signs of generations being born with lower standards of living than their parents.
So people naturally tarred and feathered Reagan, he’s remembered as a monster, and is the reason why the Republican Party is a faded memory that we only bring up when teaching school children about why we don’t have a Two-Party System. That wacky Trickle Down Economics… I tell ya, glad no one’s dumb enough to buy that anymore…
Oh sorry, that’s what happened in the prime timeline, here reality doesn’t run off of people learning from mistakes, this is a Murphy’s Law Ruins Based Timeline where everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
Here Reagan invented the folktale of the “Welfare Queen” to imply that black people were getting more than “their fair share” from this welfare, and that Americans would be doing fine if only this specific group wasn’t taking more welfare than they should be allowed.
A story that doesn’t make any sense since if black people were getting more in Welfare, wouldn’t Reagan be the one making that call? Ah but they thought of that, Reagan blamed a shadowy cabal of Democrats for getting the black people more then “their fair share” in a scheme to “overthrow whitey” in the name of “liberal guilt”
A story that also shouldn’t work as Democrats had neither the motive nor enough control over the government to pull off this little trick, but people are stupid, so they bought it hook, line, and sinker.
You know our reality isn’t the prime timeline, because none of this makes any fucking sense and it’s only bad writing that lets people be this fucking stupid. I can see the person in the audience cringing at the fact this reality is self-aware and seems to think pointing out the bad writing is the same as doing better.
I’m sorry audience, I wish I could join you as merely an observer who has the option to watch a better movie or read a better book, one not bound by this bullshit, but… alas, that is my fate.
So if I die in the movie, I wake up in my trailer as the actress and enjoy the privileged life that entails? Maybe I’m played by a cischick with huge cans, that’d be awesome!
Because our priorities are wrong
Owning your own home is a privilege, which wasn’t available to the general public until 19-20 century depending on a country. And it’s still not available to many in some countries.
You want too much.
It’s not a Privilege anymore, we have more than enough to provide housing for all in developed countries
Have you ever heard about the housing crisis? The UK for example has a 4.3 million homes deficit. That’s 6.3% of the population if you want to give everyone a house. But if accounting for families of at least two people, then it’s more like 12.6% of the population without homes.
The situation is very similar in most developed countries, especially in Europe. Countries like Italy and Poland have severe overcrowding, 35% of Poles don’t have enough living space (meaning they live in house shares and only have one room to themselves).
So yeah, it is a privilege. Always was. And as the worldwide population grows, housing will only become even more scarce as land is a finite resource.
Thats already where the intention starts, I never specified there are enough homes, for a reason. Not enough homes existing is just to create an artificial crisis
You literally said:
That’s false. There is not enough housing all over the world, with just a few exceptions like Singapore. But it’s much better than 100-200-300 years ago. And since this thread is about home ownership specifically, home owners are only a fraction of those who actually live in good enough accommodation.
Thus returning to the original point - owning a house is a privilege. Always was and will be for a very long time. First we need to solve the housing crisis and at the very least provide council housing, but that’s not ownership, it’s just a better rent. And if the global population continues to grow then ownership will become even less accessible.