realitista

If you took that from the boat it musta been a tall boi.

I understand. It’s not something that’s easily done even just on an emotional level. I also feel increasingly guilty not being near my parents as they get older.

Well yes I agree “given the choice” should be the caveat here.

Barring extreme poverty limiting your freedom of movement, I would assume people who wanted to leave rural areas to live in a city would do so. It happens quite frequently.

I was afraid that’s what it was but had higher hopes for the world.

Is this a reference I’m not getting?

Moving from the government to the church is really just moving from one giant organization to the other in a lot of ways. But yes, it’s outside of government so I guess you could say it counts.

Well it shouldn’t be surprising that someone who lives far away from everyone else doesn’t care much for other people.

Yes, but not one run by the government. It is the form of collectivism that rural people see and most conspicuously use, and hence why they don’t see the need for governments

I think it more comes down to the fact that if you live in a rural area, you have to have a very independent and individualistic mindset because you are so far away from things that you have to do most things yourself. This leads to a less collectivist mindset. Your main hub of society tends to be the nearest church, which is where you see the other people living nearby. Or maybe the bass pro shop or waffle house if you are near enough to one of those.

When you live in a city, you are about as deep in society as you can get, and you can quickly understand why we need to help each other because you see the results of not doing that all around you (mental illness, drug addicition, homelessness, etc.).

It’s not that one is right and the other wrong, it’s that they are life viewed from fundamentally different perspectives and needs.

If you’re using something like Bandcamp, the artists are already getting thousands of times the money you are giving them from listening on Spotify, I think it’s good enough. Even iTunes is thousands of times better.

She’s very well drawn.

It’s always been there somewhere in the shadows, but that was the first time I saw it happening out in the open.

I left the US after Bush Jr was elected and it was the best decision of my life. That’s when fascism started it’s slow ramp up in the USA

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And pretty rich.

I would if I could.

Epic!

I’m not saying people don’t have sex as they get older (though there is ample evidence out there that they tend to have less). I’m saying that women are less likely to put up with a broke ass older man than a young stud. As you get older you become more prized as a breadwinner than you do as just a toy boy.

Again is dependent a lot on your age.