I have these three sea shells and some peyote. Can we trade? On Oct 19, 2016 12:42 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Screw your tribe, I have the conch... > > *From:* Josh Reynolds > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 19, 2016 10:52 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ot but common > > > Once upon a time, we had tribes. > > They lived together, believed in the same things, had the same language, > same problems, etc. Same ethnic, religious, geographic ties. And so on.. > > We still have tribes now, but the individuals in these tribes might be > separated geographically by vast differences. > > We also have the media, which is a megaphone for issues important to the > tribes - well at least the biggest two, everything else is marginalized and > discredited and looked down upon. It gets even worse once you're on the > internet. > > Critical thinking is gone. Fact checking is too time consuming for the > masses. Facts themselves are too easy to hide or distort. There is as much > disinformation as there is information, and its intentional to continue to > perpetuate the system. > > I just want a small island with a temperate climate to raise my > mini-tribe. The rest of you can fuck off ;) > > Native American Indians did it right, mostly. I wouldn't mind going back > to that at this point. Enjoying nature. Enjoying family. Spending quality > time. The only work to do is the work that has to get done. I'll figure out > spears, I'm okay with bows and good with fire. No more rat race, no > twitter, no CNN/fox, just kicking it with my fam enjoying flying through > the cosmos as insane speeds on this ball of space dust. > > On Oct 19, 2016 11:36 AM, "Chris Wright" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It really is a shame that we’ve been conditioned to default to > establishing our own world of confirmation bias. We tailor our social media > by liking posts we agree with, and unfriending (or at least muting) posters > of contrary material. We create our own personal worlds of yes-people and > intelligence no longer becomes necessary. Our handicapped minds are no > longer required to hold two conflicting ideas for the sake of critical > thought. All this has devolved a once-functional society filled with > different people who recognized the value of compromise into a > self-centric, personalized hegemony of detached resonating chambers. > > > > > > > > Guys I’m not even fully caffeinated this morning why am I even writing > this… > > > > > > > > Chris Wright > > > > Network Administrator > > > > > > > > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of That One Guy > /sarcasm > > Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2016 9:21 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [AFMUG] Ot but common > > > > > > > > Can we all still be friends after this shitshow? Pleeeeeeeaase? Even if > we can't be friends will you folks at least still offset my incompetence? >
