hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Culture
"THE proposal aired in last week's Sunday Age to reinstate conductors to Melbourne's trams was greeted with unsurprising enthusiasm. But the nostalgia for connies probably has little to do with the mechanics of tram ticketing and more to do with a general unease about 21st-century relationships.[...]
It probably isn't the cost of conductors, or the ballooning cost of myki that makes so many people miss the connies. As blog comments, reader contributions and subsequent opinion pieces have made clear, what people are most nostalgic for is human contact on the tram.
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Rather than hoping that conductors will somehow rebuild Melbourne's community spirit, why not look at what's holding that spirit back? We will probably discover it is much more than dissatisfaction with ticketing machines."
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Correct. If you wipe away the dogma and look at society from a structural point of view you might perceive that our communities are becoming increasingly artificial and strained.
We live in an increasingly centralised society which constantly reminds people of their individual rights, liberties and freedoms whilst failing to instil them with the balancing sense of virtue and common concern (beyond the buying and selling of products, which is our sole unifying force these days). The state pumps literally hundreds of thousands of people from a mixed bag of vastly different cultures into the population each year leading to increased isolation and disconnection among people despite all the rhetoric of harmony, and it promotes among its people no higher aspiration than the accumulation of wealth, a dangerously unsatisfying psychology which naturally leaves people needy, unfulfilled and agitated.
Significantly, we're also all told that we're 'equal' and 'the same' and that everyone should be crammed under this same stupid social design, which is simply leading to an standardised, atomised and lowest common denominator way of life based around shallow displays of individualism and materialism.
In contrast to modern social trends, Corrupt believes that we should base our social values on the common good as opposed to the individual good: to a higher degree than is currently the norm, and also on the organic concepts of common heritage, common values, common goals, and the cultivation of true diversity between these more unified communities. This would pave the way to more significant levels of social concern, satisfaction and natural human interaction within each community beyond the modern 'culture' of buying and selling products, individual attention seeking, and ritual intoxication.