we were a conservative country .. did what we were told. Now we are selfish, badly behaved and chaotic... that's what thinking for ourselves has done for us so far... I suspect we will need a very repressive system in the future to get our discipline back.
@Fraterculae I hope not! But seriously, it seems to me that discipline is utterly misapprehended, misappropriated and undervalued...by the west at any rate. I wonder if that is why (increasingly?) western storytellers such as comic books and movies have such a great time writing stories about the samurai and other eastern martial forms/ways of life...perhaps they still envy and even pine for that antithesis of the contemporary hedonistic lifestyle.
@GerdtYusef74 Oh I agree .. I dont know if it is hedonistic or debauched or just chaotic .. but i do know its hard to maintain discipline these days .. when i lived a very disciplined life it was great, very liberating in fact, not nearly as stifling as people try to make out..
we were a conservative country .. did what we were told. Now we are selfish, badly behaved and chaotic... that's what thinking for ourselves has done for us so far... I suspect we will need a very repressive system in the future to get our discipline back.
Fraterculae 1 year ago
@Fraterculae I hope not! But seriously, it seems to me that discipline is utterly misapprehended, misappropriated and undervalued...by the west at any rate. I wonder if that is why (increasingly?) western storytellers such as comic books and movies have such a great time writing stories about the samurai and other eastern martial forms/ways of life...perhaps they still envy and even pine for that antithesis of the contemporary hedonistic lifestyle.
GerdtYusef74 7 months ago
@GerdtYusef74 Oh I agree .. I dont know if it is hedonistic or debauched or just chaotic .. but i do know its hard to maintain discipline these days .. when i lived a very disciplined life it was great, very liberating in fact, not nearly as stifling as people try to make out..
Fraterculae 7 months ago