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No. I'm saying I like structure in my life. It's work to get that done on my own, and I'd like someone else to do that for me. I'm managing several major proje

by blagie 5y ago

No. I'm saying I like structure in my life. It's work to get that done on my own, and I'd like someone else to do that for me. I'm managing several major projects, and I like having a project manager tell me what to do. Before that, I had an admin to boss me around. At some point, I figured out that scheduling and planning all this stuff is no fun. If I wake up, and have a calendar of meetings, or a big block of time for writing, or whatever, I am much happier than if I'm planning it myself. If I have a project, deadlines are nice. I set them, but an RPM or admin can harass me to make sure I remember them and meet them. My project manager, and before that, my admin, report to me. It's not totalitarian at all. I don't see why a government needs to be totalitarian to structure my life. I think everyone should have a free basic home. I also think everyone should be welcome to buy a nicer home if they choose.

clouddrover 5y ago
- blagie 5y ago
  In that case, you might be surprised at how many executives are childish.... ... There's a point in your life you learn to delegate.
  - clouddrover 5y ago
- emodendroket 5y ago
  If so inclined we could equally well cast the desire to just act in accordance with one's own desires and not contribute to some sort of greater plan as childish. Doesn't really rise above the level of an insult.
  - clouddrover 5y ago
    It is no insult to call what is childish childish. It is merely accurate.
    - bawolff 5y ago
      Seesh. defending name calling by saying the name is "accurate". I think i would use the word childish for trying to debate via name calling.
      - clouddrover 5y ago
        There is no name calling. There is only a correct assessment. What do you believe is not childish in an adult saying they are unable to control themselves and that they need someone to do it for them? Here's what Alexis de Tocqueville (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America) says about it: > "What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish? There are some nations in Europe whose inhabitants think of themselves in a sense as colonists, indifferent to the fate of the place they live in. The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called “the government.” They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when their own security and that of their children is finally compromised, they do not seek to avert the danger themselves but cross their arms and wait for the nation as a whole to come to their aid. Yet as utterly as they sacrifice their own free will, they are no fonder of obedience than anyone else. They submit, it is true, to the whims of a clerk, but no sooner is force removed than they are glad to defy the law as a defeated enemy. Thus one finds them ever wavering between servitude and license. When a nation has reached this point, it must either change its laws and mores or perish, for the well of public virtue has run dry: in such a place one no longer finds citizens but only subjects."
- ativzzz 5y ago
  If that's childish, then fuck being an adult. In fact, if you want to step it up a notch, than being an "adult" is having as many children as you can to pass on your genes. Anything more than that is stuff humans made up to not be bored when they get past child bearing age.
  - clouddrover 5y ago
    > If that's childish It is. > then fuck being an adult Have no worry. I will tell you what to do, slave. Now do as you're told and say that you like it.

by blagie 5y ago

clouddrover 5y ago

blagie 5y ago
In that case, you might be surprised at how many executives are childish.... ... There's a point in your life you learn to delegate.
- clouddrover 5y ago
emodendroket 5y ago
If so inclined we could equally well cast the desire to just act in accordance with one's own desires and not contribute to some sort of greater plan as childish. Doesn't really rise above the level of an insult.
- clouddrover 5y ago
  It is no insult to call what is childish childish. It is merely accurate.
  - bawolff 5y ago
    Seesh. defending name calling by saying the name is "accurate". I think i would use the word childish for trying to debate via name calling.
    - clouddrover 5y ago
      There is no name calling. There is only a correct assessment. What do you believe is not childish in an adult saying they are unable to control themselves and that they need someone to do it for them? Here's what Alexis de Tocqueville (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America) says about it: > "What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish? There are some nations in Europe whose inhabitants think of themselves in a sense as colonists, indifferent to the fate of the place they live in. The greatest changes occur in their country without their cooperation. They are not even aware of precisely what has taken place. They suspect it; they have heard of the event by chance. More than that, they are unconcerned with the fortunes of their village, the safety of their streets, the fate of their church and its vestry. They think that such things have nothing to do with them, that they belong to a powerful stranger called “the government.” They enjoy these goods as tenants, without a sense of ownership, and never give a thought to how they might be improved. They are so divorced from their own interests that even when their own security and that of their children is finally compromised, they do not seek to avert the danger themselves but cross their arms and wait for the nation as a whole to come to their aid. Yet as utterly as they sacrifice their own free will, they are no fonder of obedience than anyone else. They submit, it is true, to the whims of a clerk, but no sooner is force removed than they are glad to defy the law as a defeated enemy. Thus one finds them ever wavering between servitude and license. When a nation has reached this point, it must either change its laws and mores or perish, for the well of public virtue has run dry: in such a place one no longer finds citizens but only subjects."
ativzzz 5y ago
If that's childish, then fuck being an adult. In fact, if you want to step it up a notch, than being an "adult" is having as many children as you can to pass on your genes. Anything more than that is stuff humans made up to not be bored when they get past child bearing age.
- clouddrover 5y ago
  > If that's childish It is. > then fuck being an adult Have no worry. I will tell you what to do, slave. Now do as you're told and say that you like it.