re: #318 freetoken

The whole shift in American society around many issues has been one towards reactionism against what I consider a harmonious society. I wonder if there is an emergent anti-civilization movement popping up, a sort of, for lack of a better word, analog to Dadaism but instead of being anti-nationalist now we’re seeing anti-society.

Logic and reason are scorned on our popular outlets like twitter and blogs. What prevails are emotions. For all the words so many writers type there is an underlying disorder, a need to rebel but not just against one’s parents but against any notion of a cooperative society.

These nutjobs who like walking into fast-food places bearing high powered rifles are making quite the statement about their narcissism and fantasy. What they are shouting loudly is “I don’t need you, because I have my gun. Try to take it away from me and I will kill you.”

I like your points about anti-society. That’s very true. We’ve got a large number of people who have convinced themselves that they don’t need to contribute to society to make things work. The whole anti-all taxes movement and the whole attack on any investment in the people thing for example and the idiots who think they made it themselves through their own hard work. I think Obama nearly got at that point when he did the what the Romney campaign tried to dishonestly claim as the president saying people didn’t build their success. When in actuality what he was saying is you didn’t do it alone.