yeah I do see the problem and that's my point. You obviously get my point, but you are belittling it as insignificant when in reality I know people who are under the impression that lawlessness is acceptable, and this is why I disagree. I didnt ask you to reply to me, so if it's not important enough for you, why are you wasting the time telling me that?

This is due to the natural cycle of leadership. Why do I have to keep explaining the same thing

that for an anarchist to claim that his stance is more logical than a statist is a stupid claim, especially considering that anarchy forms a state regardless. That there is no such thing as a lawless land where laws dont exist. There can be a revolt of law, but that isn't lawlessness.

that's the problem. The whole system is contingent on upholding moral values without regulation. The exploitation of which results in those who are forceful taking the upper hand.

What about viruses and pests who's main concern is to leach off of humans for survival/ kill us out?

A society in which there is no law.

I smoke a lot of weed. Not your grandmas weed either. Seriously powerful weed. Sometimes all day. Have been for years. It does make me think more. Sometimes too much.

people will migrate to water and to cities that have prepared for climate change

So what you guys are saying is we need to build a giant dome?

This doesn't make any sense and just sounds like an excuse to be an asshole.

Let's say for example someone hits your only vehicle and you need it to survive. Totals it and runs. How are you gonna get paid for your car if there is no law? You expect the guy that just totalled your shit and ran off to bring you $5000?
Or are you gonna play detective and show up to his house with weapons and bully the bully out of bullying you?

no, I wouldn't care.

If the cast system were
Ultra wealthy
Secure
No poverty

I would be satisfied to know that everyone in society was taken care of by one another and by their contribution to their community.

But that's not my focus. I'm tired of talking about what got us to this point. I want to talk about how to increase financial stability for everyone as opposed to financial excess for some, security for others, and poverty for many.

partially, and partially of human greed. Our result is likely a mix of the two. Abuse of government to fuel human greed

no I have defined the results of a cast system and am seeking a resolution that doesn't involve full fledged revolution.

exactly, this too. It shouldn't be allowed, but if we set up parameters to console such matters it will not appease those responsible and they can choose to withdraw from the country altogether if they wish and take their jobs with them. This is what I mean when I say that the infrastructure is constrained by the market.

let's be clear - I am not here to tear down the system. I am here to say that there are people who wish to. What I am asking is how to appease both parties without getting to that point.

Big companies have long relied on strategies to reduce their tax bills. But the new tax law is making it even easier, with a new analysis finding that 60 profitable Fortune 500 companies paid no taxes on a total of $79 billion of profits earned in 2018.

The companies, which include tech giants such as Amazon and Netflix, should have paid a collective $16.4 billion in federal income taxes based on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's 21 percent corporate tax rate, according to the left-leaning Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Instead, these corporations received a net tax rebate of $4.3 billion. The analysis is based on the corporations' annual financial reports, which were filed earlier this year to report their 2018 results. 

I think if it's 23% for me it should be 23% for you and everyone else in the country, but it isn't.

Once you bridge the gap between poor and rich your money makes it's own money and your taxes are often times non existent, and if you do so happen to pay taxes it doesn't matter because you make enough money off of the backs of other people who never see a fraction of your wealth and are just supposed to accept that your life is more valuable than theirs because you came up with the idea and you had the connections, and usually the money to make it work in the first place.

I pay 23% and Amazon makes x0,000% more than me but doesn't pay 23%

Why not? That's enough to piss people off, and it does, and it's just an example of what has happened in the past but with extra steps.

maybe not, but I have seen the history books. We are experiencing a similar pattern to the rest of the world. The wages divide, and then the people divide.

so you believe that America will never have a revolution so long as it exists? Even if it continues to over tax the majority of it's citizens, write of the taxation for the rich, and allow corporations to pay wages that barely scrape by for back breaking labor? Labor that they have been forced into for lacking the finances and the connections to do something greater?
Or do you expect the poor to just be satisfied that they can afford the CEO another yacht this year because the CEO was lucky; born to the right people under the right circumstances.

I dont know what to believe about population growth. I have heard that we need more people and I've also heard that we need less.

I would agree that capitalism is one of the closest to fairness humanity has come in documented history for an economic structure. This is not an attack on what capitalism has been. This is a curiosity of what should come next in order to keep it from crumbling.

I feel like you just told me "tough tiddies"

But I feel like you also agree that there is a growing gap.
And I feel like you agree that this usually results in a transition.
But I feel like you disagree that this transition will take place in America because of how the system is designed.

On paper it should be working, but the numbers don't show that it is. The same pattern is resurfacing where the rich gain more wealth and the poor become more poor. The cost to live is higher, the wages stay the same. The opportunity is not equal and the results are apparent.

so if capitalism broke the barrier, then why is there still a huge separation between the rich and the poor? Why is that separation increasing?

I'm speaking more in terms of an entire state, or country. Not on the level of the individual. We are seeing people fight back around the world in order to regain their liberties from their economic constraints, but at the end of the day it's a fight for equality between the people and their leaders. The rich and the powerful versus the meek and the poor. Is this phenomenon not a cycle?

Sure, but this doesn't equalize opportunity, and does not change the wage gap.

No. Respect people.

Mean people suck.

Psychedelics don't have that strong of an effect on the average person, but they can on those who are preconditioned with the likes of bipolar/schizophrenic disorders. I am diagnosed with the former.

And psychedelics did teach me important values as you mentioned that I likely could have attained without needing to go through the delusions that came with them for me.

In other words I don't see them as harmful drugs for the average human mind, but rather as tools to observe oneness amongst planet Earth... Which in my opinion is valuable therapy that should be offered under structured therapeutic sessions rather than given out left and right at parties.

Because for some minds.. Like mine... They also cause psychotic episodes. Lol

Also... Actually.. No one told me that I was wrong, or explained to me that I was experiencing schizophrenic delusions as a result of using psychedelics. None of my other friends were experiencing these delusions. None of them sold their house and truck to be homeless. Just me. A couple of people did mention the term "God Complex" to me, but then they merely proceeded to make fun of me without further explanation. If someone had explained to me what I was experiencing I likely would have snapped out of it sooner as I managed to do as soon as I started researching the psychosis.

happily married, could make 55 an hour but I gave it up to follow a career that I enjoy more. Child lives with myself and mom.

I agree we have a duty to help to the best of our abilities. But what I mean to say is that when you fail to heal the entire world don't feel like a failure because we can only do as much as we can.

Throwback to this post about how LSD made me Jesus. Lol.

This is about to get really real:

2016 was a really intense year for me. Towards the end of 2015 I took it upon myself to give the trust enough in myself to start smoking pot and drinking again after 5 years of sobriety. (During that 5 years I was around parties allllll the time; I even organized them and got all of the people together to make them as big and beautiful as I could.) Everyone knew I was sober, but it didn't effect my relationships with my friends because they all knew that I try my hardest to be a loving and genuine person to everyone I meet.
But I started back...
The weed and the booze aren't what threw me for a loop, though. I am the type of person who can take one puff or drink one beer and then walk away and continue about my life like they are no big deal.
No... it wasn't addiction.
It was Hallucinogens.
I took some acid.
It gave me feelings like I had never before experienced. Physically, mentally, and emotionally something changed inside me and I became extremely curious as to what it was about these chemicals that opened up a whole new perspective of life in my mind.
So I indulged. Regularly.
Too regularly. My curiosity led to a habit of accepting almost any drug that crossed my path. (I even took meth once - NEVER again will I do that; it was absolutely horrendous.)
I never went out of my way to find these chemicals, but I did intentionally put myself in positions and situations where I knew that they would surface for my indulgence.
After a while... I felt enlightened from them. "Woke" as the kids say now a days...
But my "wokeness" went too far. It gave me a sense of superiority over others in a way. In my mind I could do no wrong because everything I chose to do was considered yet another part in my path towards... Well towards making the world a better place.
I became a saint in my own eyes.
It became my destiny to travel the world spreading love and peace to anyone who was willing to have it. At one point I was even considering spending my very last $1500 on a plane ticket to Israel. I was going to go and see whoever was in charge and I was going to end the Jerusalem conflict with my love. (Trust me I know it's silly lol)

Instead I left my family in Denver and I went off to Oregon with nothing. I offended the people I took shelter under with my self righteous delusions of grandeur. (much like I offended many with the same ideals before I even left home; many people have forgiven me, some haven't, and some I will likely ask forgivness of until I die because I have a hard time forgiving myself.)
Anyway - they kicked me out and I became homeless in Eugene Oregon with a heart full of love and a mind full of confusion. It was here that I found a feeling of desire and love for art. Homelessness is very boring at times and art kept me thrilled to be alive. Soon after, I realized that my greatest creation was at home without my guidance and without my affection, so I gave up my desire to change the world and traded it for a bus ticket home to be a presence for the greatest achievement that I will ever leave on Earth - my son.
This experience, and these chemicals changed my life. They took away the pressure of being the perfect human and they gave me the understanding that purpose is within - not without.

If you are experiencing a "third eye opening experience" from hallucinogens I want to say this: it is not your job to heal the world. Don't put that pressure on yourself. It is your job to find the peace in your own heart enough to accept your life as it happens. It's okay to feel "woke" but trust me - you do not want to be "the wokest" because there is a very fine line on the matter of morality and we just aren't capable of having all of the answers all of the time - no matter how genuine we feel in our hearts.

Fortunately I have had the year of 2017 to recover from this life changing experience. I no longer feel the curiosity that was brought about by the chemicals that I no longer take, and I don't feel the desire to dig deeper into this altered state of mind. I feel like I learned what I needed to learn, and thank God I don't need to learn it again.

I love you. I love life. I love my family and my son. We will put our minds to bringing prosperity to our home and we will win.

Throwback to this post about how LSD made me Jesus. Lol.

This is about to get really real:

2016 was a really intense year for me. Towards the end of 2015 I took it upon myself to give the trust enough in myself to start smoking pot and drinking again after 5 years of sobriety. (During that 5 years I was around parties allllll the time; I even organized them and got all of the people together to make them as big and beautiful as I could.) Everyone knew I was sober, but it didn't effect my relationships with my friends because they all knew that I try my hardest to be a loving and genuine person to everyone I meet.
But I started back...
The weed and the booze aren't what threw me for a loop, though. I am the type of person who can take one puff or drink one beer and then walk away and continue about my life like they are no big deal.
No... it wasn't addiction.
It was Hallucinogens.
I took some acid.
It gave me feelings like I had never before experienced. Physically, mentally, and emotionally something changed inside me and I became extremely curious as to what it was about these chemicals that opened up a whole new perspective of life in my mind.
So I indulged. Regularly.
Too regularly. My curiosity led to a habit of accepting almost any drug that crossed my path. (I even took meth once - NEVER again will I do that; it was absolutely horrendous.)
I never went out of my way to find these chemicals, but I did intentionally put myself in positions and situations where I knew that they would surface for my indulgence.
After a while... I felt enlightened from them. "Woke" as the kids say now a days...
But my "wokeness" went too far. It gave me a sense of superiority over others in a way. In my mind I could do no wrong because everything I chose to do was considered yet another part in my path towards... Well towards making the world a better place.
I became a saint in my own eyes.
It became my destiny to travel the world spreading love and peace to anyone who was willing to have it. At one point I was even considering spending my very last $1500 on a plane ticket to Israel. I was going to go and see whoever was in charge and I was going to end the Jerusalem conflict with my love. (Trust me I know it's silly lol)

Instead I left my family in Denver and I went off to Oregon with nothing. I offended the people I took shelter under with my self righteous delusions of grandeur. (much like I offended many with the same ideals before I even left home; many people have forgiven me, some haven't, and some I will likely ask forgivness of until I die because I have a hard time forgiving myself.)
Anyway - they kicked me out and I became homeless in Eugene Oregon with a heart full of love and a mind full of confusion. It was here that I found a feeling of desire and love for art. Homelessness is very boring at times and art kept me thrilled to be alive. Soon after, I realized that my greatest creation was at home without my guidance and without my affection, so I gave up my desire to change the world and traded it for a bus ticket home to be a presence for the greatest achievement that I will ever leave on Earth - my son.
This experience, and these chemicals changed my life. They took away the pressure of being the perfect human and they gave me the understanding that purpose is within - not without.

If you are experiencing a "third eye opening experience" from hallucinogens I want to say this: it is not your job to heal the world. Don't put that pressure on yourself. It is your job to find the peace in your own heart enough to accept your life as it happens. It's okay to feel "woke" but trust me - you do not want to be "the wokest" because there is a very fine line on the matter of morality and we just aren't capable of having all of the answers all of the time - no matter how genuine we feel in our hearts.

Fortunately I have had the year of 2017 to recover from this life changing experience. I no longer feel the curiosity that was brought about by the chemicals that I no longer take, and I don't feel the desire to dig deeper into this altered state of mind. I feel like I learned what I needed to learn, and thank God I don't need to learn it again.

I love you. I love life. I love my family and my son. We will put our minds to bringing prosperity to our home and we will win.

Sounds like my LSD experiences.

I smoke a lotttttt of weed. So I'm probably going to hell.

The theory of God exists, but that does not give us certainty beyond speculation, regardless of the effect of the speculation on individuals.

We are such a tiny spec in the existence of everything. To think that we have any real substantial certainty about any of it beyond what we are capable of experiencing and rationalizing at any given moment would be incredibly naive.

We are taking shots in the dark on a regular basis at what we can possibly understand.

That's just something you have to accept, and then play along with like the rest of us. Are we trying to understand things with certainty? Yes. Can we/will we/do we? Maybe. Maybe not. Just accept it.