Some background: early last year the same network released their Seattle is Dying documentary that focused on the massive homeless and drug problem Seattle has. This year...well this year happened, and anyone who thought Seattle couldn't possibly get worse was shown that there really is no limit to the depravity and anarchy that can befall a city if you allow it.
I remember a commenter long ago on Half (spectemur if anyone remembers him: he was banned for being ahead of the curve on what's coming that we can't stop) said something like "At the end of the day humans are animals, and if allowed to do so we will revert to animalistic behavior." Seattle is living proof of that.
As opposed to the concept that hollywood (namely the Roddenberry-ites) tries to constantly sell, that if humans were to not have to "strive" any more, they'd turn their energies towards "arts and music". Which should be obvious is utter bullshit nonsense.
I almost don't want to know: at one point he said he was an Australian Federal police officer, and I don't know how someone with his views could in good conscience do that job in that country right now.
I'm not worried about him having to do something he disagrees with, he always struck me as the kind of person who could stomach it as long as it would allow him to pursue his goals in the long run. I'm more worried about the fact that he occasionally ran his mouth a bit too much - like admitting to be a fed in Australia, or having at least two kids - and how it could potentially fuck him over really hard.
I think he also mentioned somewhere that he was writing a book, and I'm curious about that, but I doubt we'll ever get to read it, even if he finishes it.
I was more thinking that I'd hate him to be one of these guys arresting grandma for sitting on the beach because she had a chair or being on the street one minute past curfew.
I worry less about him being fucked over by running his mouth, since it sounded like he lived in a pretty remote tight-knit community where if all else failed "problems" could be "solved" by digging holes in the ground.
Some background: early last year the same network released their Seattle is Dying documentary that focused on the massive homeless and drug problem Seattle has. This year...well this year happened, and anyone who thought Seattle couldn't possibly get worse was shown that there really is no limit to the depravity and anarchy that can befall a city if you allow it.
I remember a commenter long ago on Half (spectemur if anyone remembers him: he was banned for being ahead of the curve on what's coming that we can't stop) said something like "At the end of the day humans are animals, and if allowed to do so we will revert to animalistic behavior." Seattle is living proof of that.
As opposed to the concept that hollywood (namely the Roddenberry-ites) tries to constantly sell, that if humans were to not have to "strive" any more, they'd turn their energies towards "arts and music". Which should be obvious is utter bullshit nonsense.
News media is now performance art, so.
Oh man, spectemur. I wonder what he's doing now, he really had some incredibly good takes on things.
I almost don't want to know: at one point he said he was an Australian Federal police officer, and I don't know how someone with his views could in good conscience do that job in that country right now.
Yeah, I saw him powerlevel once too.
I'm not worried about him having to do something he disagrees with, he always struck me as the kind of person who could stomach it as long as it would allow him to pursue his goals in the long run. I'm more worried about the fact that he occasionally ran his mouth a bit too much - like admitting to be a fed in Australia, or having at least two kids - and how it could potentially fuck him over really hard.
I think he also mentioned somewhere that he was writing a book, and I'm curious about that, but I doubt we'll ever get to read it, even if he finishes it.
I was more thinking that I'd hate him to be one of these guys arresting grandma for sitting on the beach because she had a chair or being on the street one minute past curfew.
I worry less about him being fucked over by running his mouth, since it sounded like he lived in a pretty remote tight-knit community where if all else failed "problems" could be "solved" by digging holes in the ground.