Emasculating Society
Today's society does not allow for a man-to-man duel to settle differences. Society used to be masculine. Guy screws your wife, you challenge him to a duel and you kill him. Your family's honor has been upheld, and you have taken out your frustration and rage on the object of your botherance.
Now, society is feminine. All our fight-to-the-death battles happen on a courtroom floor, and silver-tongued snakes sling their poison around in your stead. It's impotent, and emasculating. If a man screws my wife, I don't want money, I want blood.
His blood.
On my hands, sprayed across my face and dripping into my mouth. I want to see the light die in his eyes as he knows he's been beat, I want to see the realization in his posture every time he sees me from then on. I want to know that he knows I'm better than him, and not because a faceless serpent took money from him that I will probably never see.
The strong survive. This is a truism in all things except modern society. I appreciate the fact that a 5'8, 98 lb pencil-pusher can get his due against a 6 1/2 foot tall 300 lb musclular monstrocity. I understand that money opens doors for people, and blood does not, but we have castrated an integral part of our humanity.
There is no longer a need for a 6'6" 300 lb monstrocity to be around. We could all be 6'0" and weigh 185 lbs, each with the same hair color and eye color, facial features and mental capacity.
If you knew that by wronging that big guy, he could legally beat your face in, and make you his slave for restitution, there would be less people willing to do these things. Pain is the best persuader, allways has been, always will be. The presence or lack thereof will always be more potent than monetary discipline.
This is one reason why science fiction is less appealing to me than fantasy. Technology destroys skills, society destroys individualism. The natural path leads to a Brave New World, when our flaws make us as interesting as our strengths. If there is no reason to improve yourself, you will stagnate, If there is no reason to be strong and fit, people won't be. You see it in the animal kingdom all the time. The natural predators are lean, mean, and good at what they do. Those same predators sitting in a house being fed twice a day become fatty fluff balls that warm your feet and bite your toes. Even in this we see that a real cat is more interesting, more fun, and more dangerous than a robotic counterpart, or a virtual pet on a volumetric display that your house displays allways dogging your steps.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology. But technology should have its bounds set before imitation of real life.
I beleive that with the proper push, society could return to the strong surviving. Incorporate different societies. If your strength is mental, then the strongest mind survives, if your strength is physical, there you go.
Realistically there will never be a way to cull the herd until genetic manipulation is allowed. Destroy heart disease and dialisys. remove the genetic predispositions for alcoholism and drug abuse. Do not destroy the want for such things, but destroy the ability to be swept away by them.
In this, we are using technology to do what our natural instincts want us to do. This way, two men, regardless of what job they do, can fight to the death and be at equal enough odds. Improve technology and allow nature to influence us as well. this is the happy medium, this, is the domain of the Evil Overlord.
Vote Cam White for Supreme Usurper!
Now, society is feminine. All our fight-to-the-death battles happen on a courtroom floor, and silver-tongued snakes sling their poison around in your stead. It's impotent, and emasculating. If a man screws my wife, I don't want money, I want blood.
His blood.
On my hands, sprayed across my face and dripping into my mouth. I want to see the light die in his eyes as he knows he's been beat, I want to see the realization in his posture every time he sees me from then on. I want to know that he knows I'm better than him, and not because a faceless serpent took money from him that I will probably never see.
The strong survive. This is a truism in all things except modern society. I appreciate the fact that a 5'8, 98 lb pencil-pusher can get his due against a 6 1/2 foot tall 300 lb musclular monstrocity. I understand that money opens doors for people, and blood does not, but we have castrated an integral part of our humanity.
There is no longer a need for a 6'6" 300 lb monstrocity to be around. We could all be 6'0" and weigh 185 lbs, each with the same hair color and eye color, facial features and mental capacity.
If you knew that by wronging that big guy, he could legally beat your face in, and make you his slave for restitution, there would be less people willing to do these things. Pain is the best persuader, allways has been, always will be. The presence or lack thereof will always be more potent than monetary discipline.
This is one reason why science fiction is less appealing to me than fantasy. Technology destroys skills, society destroys individualism. The natural path leads to a Brave New World, when our flaws make us as interesting as our strengths. If there is no reason to improve yourself, you will stagnate, If there is no reason to be strong and fit, people won't be. You see it in the animal kingdom all the time. The natural predators are lean, mean, and good at what they do. Those same predators sitting in a house being fed twice a day become fatty fluff balls that warm your feet and bite your toes. Even in this we see that a real cat is more interesting, more fun, and more dangerous than a robotic counterpart, or a virtual pet on a volumetric display that your house displays allways dogging your steps.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology. But technology should have its bounds set before imitation of real life.
I beleive that with the proper push, society could return to the strong surviving. Incorporate different societies. If your strength is mental, then the strongest mind survives, if your strength is physical, there you go.
Realistically there will never be a way to cull the herd until genetic manipulation is allowed. Destroy heart disease and dialisys. remove the genetic predispositions for alcoholism and drug abuse. Do not destroy the want for such things, but destroy the ability to be swept away by them.
In this, we are using technology to do what our natural instincts want us to do. This way, two men, regardless of what job they do, can fight to the death and be at equal enough odds. Improve technology and allow nature to influence us as well. this is the happy medium, this, is the domain of the Evil Overlord.
Vote Cam White for Supreme Usurper!
posted by Hadrian: Dark One at 3:47 PM
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