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It's not only wealth transfer, it's potential wealth destruction. I only had a chance to spend a day in the area as I was driving through. This sounds cliché,

It's not only wealth transfer, it's potential wealth destruction. I only had a chance to spend a day in the area as I was driving through. This sounds cliché, but it's one of those places that makes you think. The immense beauty captured my full attention and for the rest of the drive, I turned my cell phone and radio off and sat in awe in a sort of mindless medication. Places like this truly are priceless, especially for city folk like. myself overstimulated by modern society. It's unfortunate that some people look at wilderness only for what value can be extracted out of the land. It's not only wealth transfer, it's potential net wealth destruction. Slightly off topic, but Trump recentl made a speech where he said that no one's religious rights will ever be violated again in this country. It reminded me of the Native American people trying to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline because it crosses through their waterways and some of their sacred lands. I know it's politics and what he said was code for allowing Christian organizations to discriminate against LGBT individuals and to also exclude birth control from their health care benefits, but it must be so disheartening to hear something a President say that and know that it doesn't apply to your religion, like he doesn't even acknowledge that you exist. It's just depressing knowing that, if we incentivized correctly, our energy issues with high density fuels could be solved forever and forms of energy that require wasteful, polluting extractive and refining techniques will no longer externalize their costs

wordupmaking 9y ago
Basically: Destroying the wealth everybody can have for free, like beauty, truth and simple contentment, to sell cheap thrills that never quite satisfy. I don't care how cliché that sounds, I'm tired of how well that cliché holds up in the reality I see. And yes, I also think that it's ultimately a net negative, I'm not even sure the people who get wealthier and more powerful actually get wealthier and more powerful. Their thrills don't seem to last either, they kind of seem to get smaller, and apart from the destruction of the world around us basically everybody of us engages in and suffers from, some of them them also have a vastly bigger inner gulf to cross. I.e. to enjoy a sunset someone with a clean conscience only has to have the time and the sunset, but people with corpses in the basement still have to dig out from under those corpses and then get up the stairs and out the front door. There's a lot of shrillness these days, and I think exactly for that reason; people with mouths full of dirt screaming about how they wouldn't want to see a sunset anyway, how only losers would enjoy those more than the cold stone they're stuck under. A whole lot of posing going on. FWIW, I don't think any of us are exempt, I surely am not. Yeah I didn't start a war of aggression yet, and so on, but I hurt others for various dumb reasons, and often failed to even try to make up for it for even dumber or no reasons. It's a matter of degree though, and I would not want to swap with people in even deeper shit.
SpikeDad 9y ago
I'm sure he meant only western Christian "rights" which are of course not rights at all.

wordupmaking 9y ago

Basically: Destroying the wealth everybody can have for free, like beauty, truth and simple contentment, to sell cheap thrills that never quite satisfy. I don't care how cliché that sounds, I'm tired of how well that cliché holds up in the reality I see. And yes, I also think that it's ultimately a net negative, I'm not even sure the people who get wealthier and more powerful actually get wealthier and more powerful. Their thrills don't seem to last either, they kind of seem to get smaller, and apart from the destruction of the world around us basically everybody of us engages in and suffers from, some of them them also have a vastly bigger inner gulf to cross. I.e. to enjoy a sunset someone with a clean conscience only has to have the time and the sunset, but people with corpses in the basement still have to dig out from under those corpses and then get up the stairs and out the front door. There's a lot of shrillness these days, and I think exactly for that reason; people with mouths full of dirt screaming about how they wouldn't want to see a sunset anyway, how only losers would enjoy those more than the cold stone they're stuck under. A whole lot of posing going on. FWIW, I don't think any of us are exempt, I surely am not. Yeah I didn't start a war of aggression yet, and so on, but I hurt others for various dumb reasons, and often failed to even try to make up for it for even dumber or no reasons. It's a matter of degree though, and I would not want to swap with people in even deeper shit.

SpikeDad 9y ago

I'm sure he meant only western Christian "rights" which are of course not rights at all.