It's weird when people act like welfare or medicare or social security are some Great Crime Against the Natural Order.
I mean I can find jokes from China 2000+ years old that include reference to welfare programs, from rice to firewood. We've been taking care of each other in various ways since forever, otherwise we wouldn't be here.
@StevenSavage Both Rome and Roman Constantinople provided free bread for the poor.
@Coctaanatis you'd think we'd learn, overall.
@StevenSavage Same people who gripe about social safety nets are the first to set up a Pancake Breakfast, Spaghetti Diner, or GoFundMe when they are up the creek without a paddle. Funny how that works!
@StevenSavage THANK YOU!!!
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Humans are social animals. Social animals thrive by helping one another.
If you teach social animals that helping each other is bad, it drives them crazy and can kill them.
@AskTheDevil you make a great point. We're teaching people to negate being HUMAN. As a friend who worked in social media put it, we've set up a race to become the emptiest husk.
And then people go mad.
@StevenSavage So it is up to us to teach one another how to be _human_ again.
@AskTheDevil yeah. Or more likely, remember.
And hey who better, you're THE DEVIL!
Ha ha! Thanks!
I am also merely a humble seeker, watching the same show everyone else is, and trying to learn the same lessons and solve the same problems.
Okay, maybe not that humble.
I've spent a long time learning certain things, and I hope I can lend what I know to the pool of knowledge.
But if there's any message I have as Me, it is not to get your direction from others, only advice.
I am anti-authority.
@StevenSavage the very reason we've gotten as far as we have is through cooperation and helping our sick/wounded survive.
@StevenSavage They play him lip service on anything. Before they were stroking about nothing being there for soc sec. Now they do the dance it doesn't matter. If he said let's eat kids tomorrow they'd fire up the bbq.