Mr. Tea
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It's a topic that's hard to avoid.every thread converges on "britain is grim"
Anyway, that's not entirely true. We have threads about how grim America is, too.
It's a topic that's hard to avoid.every thread converges on "britain is grim"
It's a topic that's hard to avoid.
Anyway, that's not entirely true. We have threads about how grim America is, too.
a lot of america they dont even have roads, just dirt tracks. thats how underdeveloped it is.
"Sure, the lack of basic healthcare for millions, constant mass shootings, rollback of women's reproductive rights and the inexorable rise of Christofascism are bad, but have you seen a really rough 'Spoons at chucking out time?"but then some dickhead will post a video of Blackpool and whine how we have it worst
But 'spoons has all those other things too."Sure, the lack of basic healthcare for millions, constant mass shootings, rollback of women's reproductive rights and the inexorable rise of Christofascism are bad, but have you seen a really rough 'Spoons at chucking out time?"
every thread converges on "britain is grim"
I think Jonathan Meades has touched on this, but it's probably been observed by others before him.a lot of people say vile deserts give rise to monotheism dont they. but i cant recall the reasoning.
It's because there are more spirits in the forest obv.an example
The dichotomy is between people who live in rainforests and those who live in deserts. Mbuti pygmies versus Middle Eastern bedouins. Amazonian Indians versus nomads of the Sahara or the Gobi. The sorts of cultures they generate have some consistent and permeating differences.
Some starters about religious belief. Who are the polytheistic animists, who are the monotheists? That one's easy. Rainforest dwellers specialise in a proliferation of spirits and gods, whereas monotheism was an invention of the desert. This makes sense. Deserts teach big singular things, like how tough a world it is, a world reduced to simple, furnace-blasted basics. "I am the Lord your God" and "There is but one God and his name is Allah" - diktats like these proliferate. In contrast, think of tropical rainforest people, in a world with a thousand different kinds of edible plants, where you can find more different species of ants on a single tree than you would find in all the British Isles. Letting a thousand deities bloom in the same sort of equilibrium must seem the most natural thing in the world.
For once you ent wrong.It's because there are more spirits in the forest obv.
I watch charliebo313 and then exclaim to my friends "they call themselves first world"
There's something debilitating about the kind of environmental decay seen in Britain at the moment. I think it's to do with the pace of decline. If something's destroyed overnight then there's a galvanising factor that promotes rebuilding and collective action. People club together in a crisis. The environment demands it. But when it unfolds over the course of decades, there's a weary resignation.
It's the difference between your house being damp and your house being flooded. One requires immediate and drastic action, the other tends to be ignored or managed.
Britain is a damp house.