Let's Riff on the next Tech/Social Revolution

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

God Almighty rather notoriously chooses unlikely prophets, you you can just take all that snark, sit on it and spin.

The end is sort of nigh.

If enough crackpots predict the end times consistently throughout the entirety of human history, then eventually the last ones will be right.
When the sun supernovas.

If StA and Dr. Y are your mouthpieces for God Almighty, I'll not naysay your faith in their infallible wisdom.
I'll simply let that faith speak for itself.

You know when those Conquistador ships crested the horizon for the first time some high priest loaded with human hearts had the worlds greatest 'told ya' so.'

[DBTrek]

. . . and yet . . . even the descendants of those long vanquished Aztec people managed to struggle on into the modern world without permanent, all-inclusive, government handouts.

Except in Venezuela.
Which is burning to the ground.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Yes, taking the very very long view... things were basically fine since they weren't entirely eradicated from the human genome. Plus, we got a pretty sick Neil Young song out of it, so on balance...

As long as the government doesn't support lazy losers.

[DBTrek]

Is there a more lazy-loser position than "Life is hard, the state should give me shelter, food, water, and modern convenience for all of my days"?

Because if there is a lazier, more loserish position than that I've yet to stumble across it.
But hey, I'm open to learning new things.
Forum challenge - come up with a lazier, more loserish position than the one HM is defending.
Go!

[SuburbanFarmer]

Forum challenge - come up with a lazier, more loserish position than the one HM is defending.
Go!

"Just elect the shitlord, cause things will change"

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

You'll have to search far and wide to find a lazier loser than I... but lazy losers is people too ain't they?

[KerningChameleon]

Is there a more lazy-loser position than "Life is hard, the state should give me shelter, food, water, and modern convenience for all of my days"?

If you want a vision of DBTrek's nightmare vision of humanity's future, imagine a British-accented French man ordering the most boring cup of tea from an infinite supply Replicator, forever.

[brewster]

Is there a more lazy-loser position than "Life is hard, the state should give me shelter, food, water, and modern convenience for all of my days"?

If you want a vision of DBTrek's nightmare vision of humanity's future, imagine a British-accented French man ordering the most boring cup of tea from an infinite supply Replicator, forever.

I fucking HATE Earl Grey.

[DBTrek]

Here's one for Dr. Hash to use out on the campaign trail, a slogan I'd use myself if I ever gave up on life and decided to become a politician.

"The social safety net was never intended to be a hammock."

Social safety net is fine - necessary even. But the thing about a safety net is once it catches you, you're supposed to get your ass off that thing and climb back on your horse, or tightrope, or whatever you were on before you fell off. Folks don't want a safety net anymore. They want a damn social safety hammock they can recline in comfortably for the rest of their lives. That's an undue burden to place upon your fellow citizens.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Is there a more lazy-loser position than "Life is hard, the state should give me shelter, food, water, and modern convenience for all of my days"?

If you want a vision of DBTrek's nightmare vision of humanity's future, imagine a British-accented French man ordering the most boring cup of tea from an infinite supply Replicator, forever.

Holodeck.