and it's best to communicate with them using language they understand.
It's not just presidents and powerful senators and congressmen who speak in childish hyperbole these days. The rot has percolated down into, oh I don't know, the CDC whose director is crying about Impending Doom! while we are assured that Democrat administrations are run by cool analytical realists.
No, people are children, and politicians need to talk to them in a language they can understand, thus sounding themselves like children.
If you talk to the people who actually write the speeches politicians make on a regular basis, you'll find out that the golden rule those writers abide by is that they must assume that their audience has an average mental age of 11.
People who take time out of their day and go out of their way to listen to a politician give a speech don't have an *average* mental age of 11, they have a ceiling on their mental age of less than 11.
A properly functioning member of a properly functioning society shouldn't need to even think about government or politics. To the extent that I ever think of government or politics, it's almost always in the context of how they're stealing from me, how they're failing to perform one or more of the duties we by
No. I wish this was true, but no. The sad reality is that we have vested so much authority and control over our daily lives in government, that what they think or say impacts our lives. A lot. Amazon is a favorite punching bag of these progressive politicians, so why shouldnt it argue back? Amazon has a US-wide $15 minimum wage, and healthcare for all its employees. The proposals these senators make wouldnt change Amazons finances even a bit. It already meets or beats those metrics.
We will always need government for the same reason we'll always need police and courts. Humans are shitty and their behavior needs to be moderated. For that same reason, the masses will always need to be fully aware of what the government is doing, why it's doing that, etc. There really has never been a time without government - even paleolithic tribes had rulers. Likewise there will never be a time when government just disappears, or magically works perfectly, unless we figure out how to make a perfect mac
I did not suggest government itself was not necessary. I am suggesting it be confined to public safety and justice (police), adjudicating disputes (civil courts), and national defense (military for defensive purposes only), and basic infrastructure (roads and bridges and water pipes, though I think infrastructure should be 100% in the hands of local and state governments and not the fed).
Yet in 2019 we broke 50 year old records of unemployment. Why? Because in a capitalist society, when resources like labor are freed by failing businesses, it makes it cheaper to start new businesses with new ideas. Not only might Amazon be disrupted, but for sure it will one day. Capitalism works, has worked for millennia, and always will work. Capitalism is the most efficient economic structure there is. Also, when capitalism increases efficiency, it means making the whole as productive as possible by opti
You may be too young to remember, but that is a rather new thing. I grew over the years and decades. The more we look back, the more people were expected to act like adults. Even children. You can still see it in more "primitive" countries in rural areas. Those kids seem amazingly adult to us. But it's just how a kid acts when his maturing hasn't been stifled by "protecting its childhood".
People *nowadays* think it's acceptable. Because it is accepted.
And that's the problem. If you treat them like they are 11, they will become 11. And then you have the audacity to say they must be treated like they are 11 "because" they act like that.
It's the entire problem with the industry. They never say no. They never set standards. They want the biggest target group possible, no matter what. And in the process, they are breeding spoiled retards. In the literal medical sense. And frankly, I think those who are truly pulling the strings in the right departments and management, know this, and do it deliberately, because it makes "clients" easier to handle. Livestock, kindergarten, almost the same thing.
If you want that to change, start treating them like adults. *With* the consequences. Because falling flat on your face a few times, standing back up by yourself, and learning what to do and what not, is part of growing up.
I was going to say that I think we may be seeing it happen already, at least here in the US. The falling flat on your face thing.
I was going to say I think the declining standard of living is the first fall, but really that's more like a kid getting his toy taken away, and not even for a good reason, just because the dad's an asshole.
I was going to say that Trump would be another fall on the face, but really he was just treated so unfair and anyway it was actually the Faucivirus and Jew lasers that blew up
Because politicians are children (Score:4, Insightful)
and it's best to communicate with them using language they understand.
It's not just presidents and powerful senators and congressmen who speak in childish hyperbole these days. The rot has percolated down into, oh I don't know, the CDC whose director is crying about Impending Doom! while we are assured that Democrat administrations are run by cool analytical realists.
Re:Because politicians are children (Score:5, Insightful)
No, people are children, and politicians need to talk to them in a language they can understand, thus sounding themselves like children.
If you talk to the people who actually write the speeches politicians make on a regular basis, you'll find out that the golden rule those writers abide by is that they must assume that their audience has an average mental age of 11.
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:2, Interesting)
People who take time out of their day and go out of their way to listen to a politician give a speech don't have an *average* mental age of 11, they have a ceiling on their mental age of less than 11.
A properly functioning member of a properly functioning society shouldn't need to even think about government or politics. To the extent that I ever think of government or politics, it's almost always in the context of how they're stealing from me, how they're failing to perform one or more of the duties we by
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:2)
Politicians rail agains
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We will always need government for the same reason we'll always need police and courts. Humans are shitty and their behavior needs to be moderated. For that same reason, the masses will always need to be fully aware of what the government is doing, why it's doing that, etc. There really has never been a time without government - even paleolithic tribes had rulers. Likewise there will never be a time when government just disappears, or magically works perfectly, unless we figure out how to make a perfect mac
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:1)
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:1)
Re:Because politicians are children (Score:5, Interesting)
No, people do not.
You may be too young to remember, but that is a rather new thing.
I grew over the years and decades. The more we look back, the more people were expected to act like adults. Even children.
You can still see it in more "primitive" countries in rural areas. Those kids seem amazingly adult to us. But it's just how a kid acts when his maturing hasn't been stifled by "protecting its childhood".
People *nowadays* think it's acceptable. Because it is accepted.
And that's the problem. If you treat them like they are 11, they will become 11. And then you have the audacity to say they must be treated like they are 11 "because" they act like that.
It's the entire problem with the industry. They never say no. They never set standards. They want the biggest target group possible, no matter what. And in the process, they are breeding spoiled retards. In the literal medical sense. And frankly, I think those who are truly pulling the strings in the right departments and management, know this, and do it deliberately, because it makes "clients" easier to handle. Livestock, kindergarten, almost the same thing.
If you want that to change, start treating them like adults. *With* the consequences. Because falling flat on your face a few times, standing back up by yourself, and learning what to do and what not, is part of growing up.
I agree with the grandparent. (Score:2)
YOU get off MY lawn.
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I was going to say that I think we may be seeing it happen already, at least here in the US. The falling flat on your face thing.
I was going to say I think the declining standard of living is the first fall, but really that's more like a kid getting his toy taken away, and not even for a good reason, just because the dad's an asshole.
I was going to say that Trump would be another fall on the face, but really he was just treated so unfair and anyway it was actually the Faucivirus and Jew lasers that blew up