Housing hell and how Pierre Poilievre would fix explained in this 15 minute video

eyeball · December 9, 2023

11 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

1. The true foundation is our humanity. Our needs as humans as per Maslow, our needs to be social etc. That's the real foundation, the bedrock.

2. The scariest events of the past generation were, for the west, the NYC attack in 2001 and a global pandemic. Neither of those had discernible slowing effect on the adoption of new technologies and probably just accelerated the paranoid culture trends that was already underway. But honestly I haven't thought about that before, I just came up with this idea now and responds to your thought.

3. Yes, and I see this 15 minute documentary as exactly that kind of step back. It may not be the rediscovery of elder wisdom but it does seem to value wisdom on the whole. And I'm not commenting on the value of the content itself, just the overall assumption that using figures and arguments are a good thing.

4. McLuhan would disagree. Imagine giving adjoining pre industrial villages different media including weapons, transportation... then visiting decades later. The theory is that their cultures would move apart.

1. It's fair to say society has the very same basic needs. It's how to best meet them that matters.

2. The high road certainly wasn't taken after 9/11 but I note the Americans tried to advise Israel not to succumb to their rage the way America did.

As for COVID, whatever else it might have exacerbated much of what happened in reaction to it was just a repeat of what happened during the Spanish Flu. Society had been there before.

3. I suppose. Figures lie and liars figure don't forget.

4. Around here it was common for governments to do something similar to 1st Nations people - make things 'better' for one village but not the next and so on up and down the coast. The hope was to exploit differences to divide and conquer and assimilate all of them but its not working out quite like it was hoped.