There's been several large trucker strikes in Britain and Europe over the years. This would serve to break the media's hold on reality. Are they going to claim every trucker is a white supremacist?
It’s nobody’s responsibility to take care of you. I, for one, appreciate what the truckers are insinuating and hope they have a major impact with a single day of not moving.
If this country can be brought to its knees with the collective strike of gas guzzling truckers, so be it. We can’t survive on wind and expect life to perpetuate itself without the fuel upon which we rely. These truckers don’t owe us a god damned thing and it’s high time people start to realize that this system we created is floating in air and will drop the instant we stop juggling. If we cut off our right hand, the industry that carries the weight, all the balls will drop.
I welcome all the mayhem this may bring to expose the fragility of the populace and their reliance upon those who do the work. I also hope other sectors, including maintenance and services are halted or denied. I’d like to see people try unclogging their own toilets and fixing their broken furnaces. They’d change their tune really quickly, I promise.
Bottom line, the American worker will not be taken advantage of any longer, consequences and optics be damned. In your version, they have to continue to take it in the ass. I prefer their version which just so happens to be the closest reflection of reality.
I’d like to reply because you do have some inaccuracies.
First, to suggest it’s my version implies it’s an opinion. Reality is the thing that can’t be changed with a personal viewpoint. It also can’t be avoided by sticking your head in the sand. Ultimately, religion falls into this category. You can pray all day and night while following Christ, but nothing will stop reality from piercing through ones mental state. If you don’t eat, you’re going to starve. This metaphor works at all levels and across the board.
As for women, children and the elderly; they are not a indelible responsibility which must come at the expense of those not directly related. Your suggestion is all men are the thing that rightfully gets consumed in order to prop them up. This is directly at odds with reality as anyone who doesn’t follow that notion would have no base value unless they sacrificed their being. That concept may be noble, but it doesn’t reflect intrinsic nature. No one thing has any more value than another. This applies to life as well. There is no category of person which rises above or is inherently below reality. This is what the truckers are exposing by even talking of limiting their actions. They are raising the cold hard truths while trying to force all those who are cozy and warm to have an epiphany. This would also apply to doctors and farmers, plus any other facet of our system that is integral to our survival. Testosterone and estrogen aren’t the metrics by which you measure these things.
Also, I’m not keen on you using quotes around statements that weren’t made by me. It’s childish and creates a sense of superiority as if you know the machinations of another’s mind. Yes, there may be some nihilistic undertones flowing through society, but they pull no more weight than the hopelessly optimistic. Neither will change reality. Having rights as a worker isn’t even close to the picture that’s being painted.
Finally, although you make a good point concerning humans pulling together to support society, you fail to recognize the juggling connotation with respect to removing integral facets of said society. You can’t take for granted the thing that supports the system and expect it to remain in tact. This is what has been happening with the truckers and the service industry. They’ve been overlooked and quite frankly abused as they uphold an entire nation on their shoulders all the while being looked down upon by those who have no grasp of where their meals, clean water, clothes and shelter come from. The reality of these things being removed is going to be very hard for many people to accept whether there is a trucker strike or a catastrophic natural event. So don’t pretend that following Christ makes you better than the next guy or somehow immune to the perils of life. It just doesn’t. What’s actually being brought to light is the fragility of life and the populace’s unhealthy dependence upon others. It’s important to keep this in perspective and should be the precursor in learning to provide for ourselves.
What is gained by waiting?
There's been several large trucker strikes in Britain and Europe over the years. This would serve to break the media's hold on reality. Are they going to claim every trucker is a white supremacist?
Easy, tiger.
It’s nobody’s responsibility to take care of you. I, for one, appreciate what the truckers are insinuating and hope they have a major impact with a single day of not moving.
If this country can be brought to its knees with the collective strike of gas guzzling truckers, so be it. We can’t survive on wind and expect life to perpetuate itself without the fuel upon which we rely. These truckers don’t owe us a god damned thing and it’s high time people start to realize that this system we created is floating in air and will drop the instant we stop juggling. If we cut off our right hand, the industry that carries the weight, all the balls will drop.
I welcome all the mayhem this may bring to expose the fragility of the populace and their reliance upon those who do the work. I also hope other sectors, including maintenance and services are halted or denied. I’d like to see people try unclogging their own toilets and fixing their broken furnaces. They’d change their tune really quickly, I promise.
Bottom line, the American worker will not be taken advantage of any longer, consequences and optics be damned. In your version, they have to continue to take it in the ass. I prefer their version which just so happens to be the closest reflection of reality.
I’d like to reply because you do have some inaccuracies.
First, to suggest it’s my version implies it’s an opinion. Reality is the thing that can’t be changed with a personal viewpoint. It also can’t be avoided by sticking your head in the sand. Ultimately, religion falls into this category. You can pray all day and night while following Christ, but nothing will stop reality from piercing through ones mental state. If you don’t eat, you’re going to starve. This metaphor works at all levels and across the board.
As for women, children and the elderly; they are not a indelible responsibility which must come at the expense of those not directly related. Your suggestion is all men are the thing that rightfully gets consumed in order to prop them up. This is directly at odds with reality as anyone who doesn’t follow that notion would have no base value unless they sacrificed their being. That concept may be noble, but it doesn’t reflect intrinsic nature. No one thing has any more value than another. This applies to life as well. There is no category of person which rises above or is inherently below reality. This is what the truckers are exposing by even talking of limiting their actions. They are raising the cold hard truths while trying to force all those who are cozy and warm to have an epiphany. This would also apply to doctors and farmers, plus any other facet of our system that is integral to our survival. Testosterone and estrogen aren’t the metrics by which you measure these things.
Also, I’m not keen on you using quotes around statements that weren’t made by me. It’s childish and creates a sense of superiority as if you know the machinations of another’s mind. Yes, there may be some nihilistic undertones flowing through society, but they pull no more weight than the hopelessly optimistic. Neither will change reality. Having rights as a worker isn’t even close to the picture that’s being painted.
Finally, although you make a good point concerning humans pulling together to support society, you fail to recognize the juggling connotation with respect to removing integral facets of said society. You can’t take for granted the thing that supports the system and expect it to remain in tact. This is what has been happening with the truckers and the service industry. They’ve been overlooked and quite frankly abused as they uphold an entire nation on their shoulders all the while being looked down upon by those who have no grasp of where their meals, clean water, clothes and shelter come from. The reality of these things being removed is going to be very hard for many people to accept whether there is a trucker strike or a catastrophic natural event. So don’t pretend that following Christ makes you better than the next guy or somehow immune to the perils of life. It just doesn’t. What’s actually being brought to light is the fragility of life and the populace’s unhealthy dependence upon others. It’s important to keep this in perspective and should be the precursor in learning to provide for ourselves.