Elaine2025 wrote:
The looney left will not win anything. There are too many conservative people not willing to turn their money over to loons.
Do you ever understand what the convo pertains to? Or just utter knee jerk whiny platitudes?
The subject is about our culture and infers the disassociation of our next generations.
40 - 70 years ago I remember "Go outside!" "Go outside and play!" "Back when the street lights are on!"
These days you can get arrested and Child Services will take your kids if you try that. Kid'll get mugged!
We had parks, Sports. Activities. Phys Ed and school yards. Many of these have dissipated away.
I see it in my grands. Little to no physical activity in school. Especially anything competitive. The kids sit. They sit in school. They sit in front of the TV. They sit and play video games. They sit and eat. Inside.
Like a lot of folk here, they sit. Mostly alone. Except for school or work, there's very little activity or socializing. Except when you are sitting in front of an appliance. Still inside. still alone.
Bored? Not as happy as you'd like? Get high. You're not going anywhere or doing anything anyway.
And if you are, its' better when you're high.
You're going to tell me that the corps who made them, the brokers who sold them, and the doctors who prescribed them, all FORGOT that opioids are almost universally addictive, that you'll build up a tolerance very quickly, and that there's synergistic responses with, say alcohol? "It's OK! My doctor said so!"
We also have vaping. They SAY it's safe because legally it's one small puff per portion, and one portion doesn't have much to it. NObody takes a half puff and puts it down for the day. Because of this, minors can buy nicotine. They also mix it with alcohol. Instant drunk- for 20 minutes. It drives the teachers and the cops crazy. You know this twerp has been wasted for the last 10 minutes or so. By the time you're halfway talking to him he's sober. "But it's OK! It's legal!" Every so often a teen smokes denatured alcohol.
A big sea change has happened in our behavior.
Whole sections of our society are almost alone, stay inside, need vast amounts of palliatives to get them thru their miserable existence, eat quasi food things, take opioids smoke weed, drink and smoke alcohol,
all on a daily basis as a normal way of life. But as long as they're buying stuff it's OK! Yay us! Buy some more stuff. HSN has all kinds of things you don't need. Not happy? Buy something else.
Elaine, I want you to put the pipe down and read a book. "The Marching Morons".