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.
Violent Crime Rife in Victoria
"VIOLENT crimes have risen to record highs in Victoria, leaked police data shows.Almost 43,000 people suffered from violent crime in 2007-08.
Premier John Brumby said Victoria continued to be the safest state, and the increase in violent crime had been driven by the abuse of alcohol.
"We have got an issue with alcohol-fuelled violence," he said. "We've said this is a priority, we are tackling it, we need to do more, but this is alcohol-driven"."
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My bet is that in responding to this the state government will simply do what any of our modern bureaucrats, I mean politicians, would do with their overly abstract and removed thinking: tax alcohol more or enact some similar sort of band-aid solution that treats the symptoms of a problem but not the cause.
The causes of this violence are the negative side effects of our social design and culture. It's what happens when we're constantly told that the individual is king, so that we buy what ever we might desire to boost the movement of tokens in the economy. It's what happens when a bunch of people in a geographical area have no collective goal in life besides partaking in a giant rat race to see who can accumulate the most booty, who will be labelled as hippies or fools for questioning this unfulfilling sort of 'progress', and who thus feel no attachment to their society whatsoever beyond using to get what they want when they want it.
All hail progress!