This used to be the old “diplomatic” way of handling crises such as terrorism. The Rhodesians were extremely good at this in all sorts of ways. But such a mode of handling the issue belongs to aristocracy because it employs subtelty.
I would also add that not trying to control people, but allowing them to pursue their destiny in terms of their own perceptions, level of intelligence and so on, is the key to shamanic wisdom. Everything then rises or falls to its own level.
Actually, I disagree with the idea that these guys should have been let go to Syria. I don’t think it’s fair for the rich countries to keep off – loading their lumpen onto the poor countries. It’s time we learn to treat our own sick.
I see your point in some respects. I would say that there should be much better self-understanding on the part of Western countries, because the sickness of the sick is perhaps an implicit critique of some imbalances within Western culture that need to be recognised and redressed. At the same time, if I am in a crisis situation, I will use the least amount of energy and achieve my own goals best if I do not obstruct people in pursuit of their destinies, but allow them to follow through on their actions.
This in itself can be a mode of purification and healing because it teaches the sick not to lean on the healthy. From experience I know that such a sense of the right to lean on others can become enshrined as part of a cultural dogma. But in teaching people to be adults we also need to resist their need to lean. That way we end up with an adult society.
I am perhaps too young still to see the culling of young males as an unabashed good.
I’m also not sure if the Canadian policy of keeping its loonies to itself doesn’t pay off in other instances, where the loonie in question eventually reconsiders and goes back to paying taxes and writing angry comments on youtube. Nothing is foolproof, and least of all policies, and what’s happening now may just be a fringe event. I wouldn’t know either way. But I do know that having a man go off to kill people and no one trying to stop him, instead seeing him off with a gleeful “I hope you die” would mean that this thing we call civilisation would be worse off.
Also, and excuse me for the tanget, but I do think that subtlety is a sign of weakness (though, of course, not a weakness itself). You are subtle when you have more to lose than you have to gain. Since an aristocracy is an armed and educated minority surrounded by people that would quite happily see them dead, that is a situation they are constantly in. The air of indomitability is a byproduct of constant and justified fear, both a psychological redress and ward against attack. Good man of the demos I am, I’ll believe in their superior souls like I’ll believe that the bright thing in the sky is a pharaoh. 🙂
Subtelty is a sign of weakness no doubt, but can you detect it if you come across it? It doesn’t matter either way. I could hit you with a sledgehammer and you would no doubt proclaim me definitively strong, but that doesn’t matter either. Things are going on, on a subtle level, even now. The signs are so far above your head that they don’t matter to you.
That could be, but if that’s the case, I fail to see what the points are? There is certainly a collection of facts that I was not aware of, but without the overarching half-jest of “we’d be better off if these people killed themselves”, the whole piece is pretty much nothing but showing off nerd cred.
Did I mistake a piece of entertainment for something that argues towards a point?
He is trying to achieve what has been his goal for a while: reducing the panic about ISIS and jihadists by using humor. This is an important goal because foaming at the mouth about the issue, as too many people are prone to do, is not helpful. He is fulfilling the crucial purpose of lowering the degree of hysteria in society. One needs a lot of talent to do that.
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This used to be the old “diplomatic” way of handling crises such as terrorism. The Rhodesians were extremely good at this in all sorts of ways. But such a mode of handling the issue belongs to aristocracy because it employs subtelty.
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I would also add that not trying to control people, but allowing them to pursue their destiny in terms of their own perceptions, level of intelligence and so on, is the key to shamanic wisdom. Everything then rises or falls to its own level.
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Actually, I disagree with the idea that these guys should have been let go to Syria. I don’t think it’s fair for the rich countries to keep off – loading their lumpen onto the poor countries. It’s time we learn to treat our own sick.
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I see your point in some respects. I would say that there should be much better self-understanding on the part of Western countries, because the sickness of the sick is perhaps an implicit critique of some imbalances within Western culture that need to be recognised and redressed. At the same time, if I am in a crisis situation, I will use the least amount of energy and achieve my own goals best if I do not obstruct people in pursuit of their destinies, but allow them to follow through on their actions.
This in itself can be a mode of purification and healing because it teaches the sick not to lean on the healthy. From experience I know that such a sense of the right to lean on others can become enshrined as part of a cultural dogma. But in teaching people to be adults we also need to resist their need to lean. That way we end up with an adult society.
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I am perhaps too young still to see the culling of young males as an unabashed good.
I’m also not sure if the Canadian policy of keeping its loonies to itself doesn’t pay off in other instances, where the loonie in question eventually reconsiders and goes back to paying taxes and writing angry comments on youtube. Nothing is foolproof, and least of all policies, and what’s happening now may just be a fringe event. I wouldn’t know either way. But I do know that having a man go off to kill people and no one trying to stop him, instead seeing him off with a gleeful “I hope you die” would mean that this thing we call civilisation would be worse off.
Also, and excuse me for the tanget, but I do think that subtlety is a sign of weakness (though, of course, not a weakness itself). You are subtle when you have more to lose than you have to gain. Since an aristocracy is an armed and educated minority surrounded by people that would quite happily see them dead, that is a situation they are constantly in. The air of indomitability is a byproduct of constant and justified fear, both a psychological redress and ward against attack. Good man of the demos I am, I’ll believe in their superior souls like I’ll believe that the bright thing in the sky is a pharaoh. 🙂
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Subtelty is a sign of weakness no doubt, but can you detect it if you come across it? It doesn’t matter either way. I could hit you with a sledgehammer and you would no doubt proclaim me definitively strong, but that doesn’t matter either. Things are going on, on a subtle level, even now. The signs are so far above your head that they don’t matter to you.
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The “let them go to Syria” part of the article seems to be a humorous rhetorical device that helps to introduce the points the author wants to make.
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That could be, but if that’s the case, I fail to see what the points are? There is certainly a collection of facts that I was not aware of, but without the overarching half-jest of “we’d be better off if these people killed themselves”, the whole piece is pretty much nothing but showing off nerd cred.
Did I mistake a piece of entertainment for something that argues towards a point?
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He is trying to achieve what has been his goal for a while: reducing the panic about ISIS and jihadists by using humor. This is an important goal because foaming at the mouth about the issue, as too many people are prone to do, is not helpful. He is fulfilling the crucial purpose of lowering the degree of hysteria in society. One needs a lot of talent to do that.
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\\ The “let them go to Syria” part of the article seems to be a humorous rhetorical device
I am sure the author was 100% serious about it.
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