Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "TheQuartering"
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As for blaming the internet, I see it more as the internet is more of a snapshot as to where we are as a society. People have done stupid stuff for a long time. We could blame shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, or more recently Fail Army. Gawker could be among the list, saved for they were successfully sued out of business, never mind their attempted comeback. Yet, people were doing stupid pranks and stunts long before the camera was accessible to most people. Never mind the slapstick of the Three Stooges, or Charlie Chapman, who was among the first to disavow their Nazi related comedy content.
I personally don't find what this guy and his crew did as funny, but most pranks are cheesy/stupid setups that, in the back of my mind, I hope backfires on the pranksters. So yeah, I love when the Roadrunner speeds past a bundle of dynamite that's set to go off, but doesn't until Coyote goes to investigate what went wrong. So yeah, unless what causes it to happen is a tragic murder! I'll laugh when the guy in the video messes around with the wrong person and his prank backfires on him, especially if he finally serves jail time.
The one thing I'm not going to do is blame the internet. The internet wasn't around to document that. If anything, the internet makes it easier to bust criminals that are stupid enough to film and upload their crimes. Or, with more and more security cameras with live streams, it makes it that much harder to deny a crime's existence, at least for as long as it remains accessible on the internet. If anything, the things law enforcement step in to intervene on as a crime tells you a lot about the state of both politics and law enforcement. Even in the example of the person and his crew talked about in the video. The only time he got serious backlash was when he targeted Jewish people. Otherwise, his threats and harassment were not even a slap on the wrist when the targets were white people, even regardless if they were women. That's a document of piss poor, politically correct driven law enforcement, that basically says white people don't matter, you can do whatever you want to them, even threaten to kill them. Hell, maybe white homicide is ignored because the police are perfectly fine with that as well. Who knows? But it's to that point where such questions aren't just a patter of 'far right' or 'white supremacist' conspiracy theories, but well documented realities that are being posted as 'pranks' that prove how far a black person can go when the target isn't a protected class, and this is done by an all black crew of their own free will.
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Really, this is gaming on the level of casinos. Only thing is, casinos do have a chance for a payout, even though, in the end, the house always wins. Because this is akin to gambling, games that do this sort of micro transaction, or pay to play style, ought to be regulated like casinos/gambling. Should crack down on free to play micro-transactions that target kids under 18.
However, simulations like Second Life are an example of micro-transactions that can be done in a better way. For one, it is an actual inworld economy where the people in the world can create their own products and put them up for sale on the Marketplace, as well as sell them in world, either at simulated malls, or at one's own store. People can also manage virtual land by buying a full sim and renting out parcels. The point being that it isn't just an economy to serve Linden Labs, who are kind of like the central bank, but one that the users of the game can participate in.
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Spot on here! Seriously, I miss game magazines that had level maps and would hint at hidden areas, and not just spoil them. Having a bestiary, weapons and armor guide, potions catalogue, or a class tree were great meta products you could have in a game's companion guide. The instruction manual should just have enough info to help you start the game, which would be a great reason to read a game's PDF manual, whith questions of what to do after reason for interaction in a game's forums. Why game magazines went away from actually informing about how to play games, I don't understand. Most gamers want to know what to do in their favorite games, not all this toxic woke garbage. But, then again, I'm 43. So what do I know about what kids these days like or don't like. And with all the social grooming going on, do these kids even know what they want?
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Catholics and Protestants alike believe in original sin. The Catholic view is that it is a wound on human nature, and thus something that can be healed through salvation. Protestants vary on what is believed and is dependent on their religious tradition, be it Lutheran, Calvinist, Baptist, etc., and the actual views today may not be the same as their founders. For example Martin Luther believed that humans were dung that are merely covered over in salvation by God's saving grace. That might shock a few modern Lutherans, while more traditional Lutherans would consider it hyperbolic and intending to stress the need to rely on God's grace for salvation, and not one's own works. I do agree with the basic premise, that critical race theory is similar to a cult of a religion, however I disagree with the comparison to original sin while misinforming on the Catholic doctrine of it. While it is true that original sin has been passed on to humanity since the first sin of Adam and Eve, this belief is not exclusive to Catholics, and is often maintained in more rigorous views among Protestant Christians. But yes, the problem with critical race theory is that it is utilizing a spiritual/religious narrative in order to condemn a certain race as being unforgiven and with no redeeming value. It might of been crass for Luther to say humans are dung, but he at least merited the possibility of salvation through God's grace. Critical race theory seems more like Calvinism, in that all people of color are the saved ones that are of the elect, and thus are above reproach, while white people are forever damned with no chance of being saved.
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It's a difficult topic because it's a matter of circumstance and association. This is at the heart of real racism and bigotry is the us v. them mentality. I don't think it fair to blame it all on mental illness. It might have a little to do with processing information and not having the sort of filters that most people do, but the issues Kanye has with the entertainment industry run deeper than who he currently blames for his issues. That said, we should have a more open discussion about the Holocaust and the 'Yahtzees' because there are a lot of things happening in our own culture that parallel with what happened then. A lot of our current industries made money off of that regime, even benefited from some of the tech and science that built many things things we commonly use today. We also have to understand the ties there were to the eugenetics program of the regime and how that has effected the development of genetics as we know it today. Then there's Albert Einstein who was by birth Jewish, but did not practice the religion, and even turned down the offer to be president of modern Israel. There are so many intriguing aspects of that era of history, and where we are currently about these matters doe a disservice to the lessons we should have learned regarding how such a genocidal regime could exist, then play a blind eye to the genocidal tendencies if the communist nations, of which we can't speak a lot about because it's 'bad for business', just like what our companies probably knew about the Holocaust would have been bad for business for them to speak out about then. This is why we need to talk about it open and honestly, for otherwise we are just as bad as those that looked the other way when it was a certain German regime doing the atrocities.
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