give up without trying. nice. that speaks volumes.
There's no honour in suicide, pixel despite what the Japanese may have thought in WW2. "Live free or die" is a lovely sentiment but it falls down in the face of the practical reality that we all die eventually anyway and since I don't believe in an afterlife, I don't see the point in martyring myself on the altar of a cause that may not even exist...
most of what AJ reports on is from "their" own documents. very rarely is he wrong.
As I said before, I have no issues with his data, it's the
conclusions he draws. I'll give you an example (that I may have mentioned before in one of the many other AJ related threads, so bear with me): The last time I can recall listening to the AJ show he was interviewing some woman from England who was advocating a voluntary one child policy to help stem Britain's population problem. Alex was enraged (mind you, when isn't he?) that this woman was touting these China-like doctrines. He mocked her accent, did his little "evil genius" bit, rambled on about how she was sick and evil and then promised to have three more kids just to spite her. She hung up on him aghast and he chuckled triumphantly to himself before going to break (BIG BURKEE!) All because a woman had the audacity to suggest that people living in an over-crowded nation consider VOLUNTARILY limiting their families to one child. How horrid.
AJ loves to paint himself as some sort of White Knight on a grand crusade to "wake up the people", then wraps himself in a cloak of false humility with the whole "I'm just one man" schtick. Gimme a break...
But more importantly, look around you some time. I mean really look. Just stop on a street (well, on the
sidewalk), in a store, at a gas station, wherever and take a moment to observe your fellow humans. You cannot "wake them up" because they're already "awake". This is IT. They've achieved the maximum level of concious thought available to them and it consists of getting down to the GAP by 5pm for a sale on capris. And, dire as that is, consider futher that as awake as you think
you are ,there are people above you in the conciousness hierarchy who have an even more encompassing grasp of reality. We can't even imagine what those fuckers know that we don't.
In short: You can't help people who don't know they need help, don't want your help and wouldn't know what to do with it if you gave it to them with written instructions. You'd be wasting your time, which is why I don't bother.
One last thing (since we're doing the informal
book club thing) I read a book recently that might interest you guys (if you can get it, I think it's only being published in Britain and Canada at present). It's called "100 Tyrants" and it's basically a catalogue of the worst humanity's had to offer since ancient times right up to the present day. It's a quick read and very enlightening in a "everything old is new again" kinda way.