I'm seriously retarded right now.
I've been partying fairly hard for the last 6 days. I was up until 7 am last night. Drinking no less (and I FINALLY found us some goddamn ganja, uchhhh I stink).
I'm wiped out. And bored.
Please play with me, but use small words and zero concepts.
i took drugs last night
not enough
i'm high right now, and there is nothing on tv
what a waste of pot
i couldve had more drugs tonight but i turned them down...damn me!!
Have a spoonfull of Clorox and wash it down with Liquid Plumber, you should be fine.
I need to party, I've been too low key of late.
Quote:Originally posted by reefdwella
I need to party, I've been too low key of late.
I heard there is going to be one at Planet Hollywood on October 18th.
Hmmmmmmm I'll have to check it out.
To understand the state of a society, one must discover the extent to which a given philosophy has been institutionalized and has penetrated the spirits of its citizens. On this basis, one can then explain a society's history--and forecast its future. This is what makes intelligible the fact of Hitler's rise, and the inevitability of America's decline.
If you have been taught--and accept--that oppression is proper, then you will participate in a form of gradual social suicide. You will, as a matter of course, help to spread within your society the attitudes that must be nourished in order to accept oppression. (They are, after all, your own attitudes.) As a result, a greater and greater percentage of the population will come to embrace social institutions that eventuate in the self-destruction of society. (Thus the continual victories of collectivist politics.)
For example: Starting with the premise that sacrifice is a fundamental requirement of human existence, it is inevitable that laws will be passed mandating sacrifices. The unwillingness of an individual to accept the sacrifices that "the law" demands will be perceived as a violation of civilized decency. Thus even if a man starts out as benevolent, a consistent application of the collectivist principle of sacrifice will drive him, against all his better feelings, to accept the necessity of violating individual rights. Here you see the indirect--and largely unrecognized--influence of philosophy on human existence.
Principles do count. If we destroy the principles by which we live through cowardice, expediency, fear, or any other reason, we will destroy the basis of our existence.
Imagine passengers riding on a train which, they have been told, is taking them to a distant utopia. At first all seems well, but as the train moves closer to its destination, the scene outside the windows becomes ominously bleak. Finally, the passengers catch sight of the destination. Instead of the utopia, they see starving children, chain gangs, and, in the distance, the barbed wire and sentry posts of a concentration camp. Frightened and angry, they attempt to negate their forward motion by running back INSIDE THE TRAIN. The attempt, of course, is hopeless; to save themselves, the passengers must get off the train altogether. In the same manner, the moral code of altruism will carry society to tyranny, regardless of short-term backpedalling. The only hope is to fully reject altruism and enable man's right to exist for his own sake.