Freepers are all pretty weird, but the variation mostly comes from what parts of accepted Freeper doctrine they emphasize, and then little quirks (Smelly Obamas, anyone?)
But here we have a Freeper, vintage 1998, who belongs on some Luddite forum. And I mean extreme Luddites. Like agriculture was a step back, as is educating women.
And yes, this includes the Internet. Especially the Internet. Though he mostly yells about some nebulous "technology."
Bring back paper-based things
Get rid of e-mail.And typewriters
And bring back bookstores and newspapers.
I am sick of this high tech crap.
going back to old-fashioned manual typewritersThought really typewriters and paper are far too high-tech.
I very much approve. Low tech is the best!
A bigger hit would be to experience the lives of hunter gatherer peoples, who not only enjoyed more leisure time than those of us who still have jobs, but also did 24/7 what they evolved to do, which meant they had much more fun than us.Survival of the funnest!
In fact, reproduction is all that counts in life.
The only status that matters is passing genes down to future generations. What impresses you personally does not matter. It's survival of the fittest that matters.Naturally, this means we need to treat women like the third world does:
Right now, most third world people have the highest status, because they outbreed the industrialized world.
Women should be married off young, be housewives and mothers, and the man should be the breadwinner.How it should be:
And that's how it is.
Unless it's home economics, it's automatically drawing out female education.More complete misunderstanding of how evolution works
Women belong at home cooking, cleaning, bearing and raising children, and bringing their husbands their slippers when they arrive home.
That is how it should be.
And because it's not that way anymore, real men don't want to get married and have kids.
The more we remove ourselves from living the life we evolved to live, the more we have to torture kids by sending them to school to learn unnatural crap because without learning that crap, they won't be able to earn a living.And men should be shooting each other over women more.
You or your kid sneak around my daughter and end up in her bedroom you are going to get your ass blown away.Incorrect BS:
No relativist argument on my part. That’s absolutely what is going to happen
Time was when that behavior was commendable.
But that was back when the world made sense.
Outside of India and China, no other country on earth is packed with as many people as is the U.S.A.Soon technology will force socialism on us
Worse, the population density of New Jersey exceeded that of China years ago--but some people will blame the loss of freedom and bloated government in New Jersey, on some kind of socialist plot.
Well, that’s about it. I imagine during the next twenty years we may have laws passed like were recently passed in some European country, that would make it illegal for anyone to work more than, say, 20 hours a week, so as to share the remaining jobs (which jobs will also diminish in time, so this measure would just be kicking the can down the road).The exact opposite of the previous limited hours thesis:
This would mean that one could not better oneself by working longer hours, in the hopes of investing the extra money so gained or in saving to start a business, not that there’d be any kind of business left to start.
We will be faced with the loss of our economic freedom.
This will be a major crisis and I suspect it’s already started.
Capitalism, free enterprise, will have destroyed itself.
It will be a socialist’s dream: no rich, no poor, no individualism. Everyone equal and equally miserable.
so no sir, I no longer cheer technological “progress” and I am on strike when it comes to using it.
And sure, maybe it’s futile to resist—but it’s the principle of the thing.
I'm positive much of technology is damaging to society's well being.Google is planning on super-socialism:
I find that people today are working nearly 24/7 because they are constantly connected to their office no matter where they are, and expected to work, work, work---ELSE it will be cheaper to offshore their jobs (again, thanks to technology) to some developing country where the work can be done super cheap.
This technology so many marvel at, is making people have to race against the machine.
And while I'm at it another thing: if you think technology is a boon to your business, realize this: your competitor also benefits from that same technology, so it's not helping you one bit.
These morons at Google think that will be a wonderful future for us—no rich, no poor. Everyone gets to live the same boring life with a little solar powered box to call home and battery powered car that drives itself.Harmful information.
But it will be the worst kind of existence. And it is coming.
Technology doesn't just make it easy to disseminate helpful information, it also makes it just as easy to disseminate harmful information.Taking a stand!
I refuse to use self-serve checkout registers in stores.Oh, the irony!
They put people out of work.
By using them, you encourage technology to further replace jobs. AND MARK MY WORDS, IF YOU'RE UNDER FORTY--and for many even older--YOUR JOB WILL BE ELIMINATED IN YOUR LIFETIME AND YOU WILL BE ON THE DOLE.
All I know is, if it’s bad for the internet, I’m for it.People text because they don't know how to talk anymore
Bu you’re assuming people still know how to talk to each other.Weirdly, for a higher minimum wage:
I suspect the reason texting is popular, is because many people are losing their social skills, and have become intimidated by face to face or even voice to voice exchanges with another human.
So they hide behind text.
She was more interested in chatting with her co-worker than in customer service.Randomly, hating anal rape makes you gay.
And it's people like her who want to be paid $15 per hour.
Maybe if the job paid $15 an hour, better quality workers would be serving you.
Why is sticking a broomstick into someone anus considered rape?In fact technology destroys civilizations galaxy-wide.
Is sticking a chopstick into someone’s ear rape?
Is sticking a pencil into someone’s nose rape?
Seems to me only someone who considers a certain oriface a sexual one, would consider its penetration a rape.
We may have no choice but to continue to develop technology to cure the ills created by technology, but I very much doubt this process can go on forever.
And despite what scientists tell us about the statistical probability of other technological civilizations existing in the universe, I suspect any civilization that reaches the level of technological development to be able to communicate wirelessly, may be only a century or two or three from self-destructing.
So though there may be vast numbers of planets that should support life and “intelligent” civilizations, the odds of signals from another planet’s brief technological window coinciding with our technological window to hear it, may be slim to none.
Fairly hilarious, but also fairly common, for all of us, the older we get.
ReplyDeleteIt is a rather common psychology based on Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" scenario.
The older one gets, the more distant one feels from society.
I'm going to guess that "Age or Reason" has been around long enough, that in his youth he actually was acquainted with people who disparaged typewriters and automobiles as being "too complicated and unnecessary".
Lol. I saw this character in a movie, I think. Il Nebuloso.
DeleteBut he did have a thing for torture technology.
How old ARE these guys? This one seems like he's about 95.
ReplyDelete95 BC.
DeleteA little ha-ha from 2ndDivisionVet ...
ReplyDeleteReferring to Ted Cruz, "And I will raise at least a million dollars for him, should he run. I invite others here to assist me !"
I see he's given up on St. Sarah and dropped his two million dollar pledge to her, to a much more reasonable one million dollars for Ted Cruz.
Hey, an old freeper who can't even pay his rent on time can dream, can't he?
"So though there may be vast numbers of planets that should support life and “intelligent” civilizations, the odds of signals from another planet’s brief technological window coinciding with our technological window to hear it, may be slim to none."
ReplyDeleteThis is actually very insightful on his part. I tend to think the possibility of a technological civilization outliving its growing pains must be pretty hard.
The more we learn about exo-planets, the more we see that earth is, indeed, unique.
DeleteRocky planets able to maintain an atmosphere are the exception rather than the rule.
If there is life out there, it won't be anything like life on earth.
And even if it is, he's right. The chances of us and them picking up the telephone at the same time are pretty slim. Maybe someday. I suspect this is what inspired Contact, though I really don't know.
DeleteSadly, slim indeed.
DeleteWould we even recognize they were talking to us in the first place? Though physical laws are pretty immutable, how you use them depends on your sensory equipment. For all we know, there could be intelligent life right next door, but since they talk in smell, they simply can't talk to us at all.
@B - Carl Sagan was the first exo-biologist. He was fascinated by life off Earth. Even came up with an entire self sustaining eco-system for Jupiter. He were a gifted man.
Even if the nearest exo-planets sent a "call", we wouldn't be picking up the phone until 40 years later.
DeleteIf, even they sent a "call" 100 years ago (a mere instant in the galactic timeline), we wouldn't even have had a "phone" then to pick up.
Life of some sort is more likely to be discovered in our lifetimes on one of the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
True. Europa would be my guess. We know there is liquid water there, under the ice. Since the only life we know is carbon/water based, it would make sense to take a peek there first.
DeleteI'm not sure I buy into Hoyle's theory about life spores - but it's possible.
"it would make sense to take a peek there first" ...
Deleteand there we return to the subject at hand.
"Age of Reason" and 95% of other freepers would shart their shorts if anyone dare suggest we spend a dollar to take a peek at Europa.
Actually - most would be solidly behind it, I'd guess. In a balance between American exceptional-ism and paying for it - pride wins every time.
DeleteOne of the things that constantly ticks them off is the "loss" in the space race since the shuttle fleet was retired. Ticked me off too - I cried at the last launch.
But space exploration is the perfect storm for Freepers. The frontier spirit, Out competing the Russians and Chinese. USA does it best. They'd back it in a heartbeat, and not count the cost. Besides - most of the older ones tend to be sci fi addicts.