Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Radio Free Asia"
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@matt9999 I felt in a rare mood to stir the pot.😄 It can't be all earnest platitudes and easy black-and-white hand-wringing all the time. There's a popular view of life and the world which although it's got something to it, is too smugly one-sided now. People display it like a crucifix or head-covering, to ward off aspersions about their moral propriety as they go about their lives.
Difficulties and danger, dead-ends and misery, are spread around a lot more freely than formerly. It's perhaps the greatest time ever to be rich or at least in the top 5-10%, but that's about it.
Anywhere outside of that, people in all demographics are under pressure from others in other demographics (and countries), as well as their own, who are straining to submerge them after taking their money, their position, or both. Not equally of course. Some of us are better swimmers than others, but 90% of us are in the water while the rest are in motorboats, or yachts. Virtually unassailable security has returned almost to the levels of 80 or 90 years ago, i.e. it's rare again.
Concerning the non-boat people I just mentioned, no magical fake-curated list of categories from an academic journal article can tell you how good or bad, deserving or undeserving, safe or unsafe anybody is. It won’t survive much contact with life.
Pardon my rant, which I've never articulated before. I do mean well.
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@matt9999 I felt in a rare mood to stir the pot.😄 It can't be all earnest platitudes and easy black-and-white hand-wringing all the time. There's a popular view of life and the world which, although it's got something to it, is too smugly one-sided now. People display it like a crucifix or head-covering, to ward off aspersions about their moral propriety as they go about their lives.
Difficulties and danger, dead-ends and misery, are spread around a lot more freely than formerly. It's perhaps the greatest time ever to be rich or at least in the top 5-10%, but that's about it.
Anywhere outside of that, people in all demographics are under pressure from others in other demographics (and countries), as well as their own, who are straining to submerge them after taking their money, their position, or both. Not equally of course. Some of us are better swimmers than others, but 90% of us are in the water while the rest are in motorboats, or yachts. Virtually unassailable security has returned almost to the levels of 80 or 90 years ago, i.e. it's rare again.
Concerning the non-boat people I just mentioned, no magical fake-curated list of categories from an academic journal article can tell you how good or bad, deserving or undeserving, safe or unsafe anybody is. It won’t survive much contact with life.
Pardon my rant, which I've never articulated before. I do mean well.
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