Christian. Husband. Old fashioned Jeffersonian. Hiker. Revolver King. My Grass is Blue. I hammer out fresh Limbaugh Letter quips on a golden EIB keyboard.
"[B]y the Spirit of Christ in sanctification we are made kings to rule over our own lusts to some degree. We are not kings to be freed altogether from them, but kings to strive against them. It is a liberty to fight, and in fighting to overcome at last."- Richard Sibbes
Many discussions of “honor” about this (insane) clip. Thoughts:
1. The boomer is jumping a kid on crutches, because he dared to… what, mildly talk back to him? None of this is “honor culture” in the first place. It’s closer to Maury than it is to medieval France, or whatever comparison people want to draw.
2. It’d be legal and reputational suicide for these kids to actually fight back against some deranged old guy. There would be criminal charges and a civil case, and they know it. That’s the main thing on their minds the entire time, as it always is when a young white guy gets into a confrontation — because everybody’s been trained to think that way, at great expense, for 20 years.
(By the way, for all the “kids today ain’t tough” posturing old guys do online, they know this is the case and will privately admit it. Cameras, courts, and racial displacement of norms killed “honor culture” with stuff like this.)
3. The kid’s friends are still insane for not jumping in. But this kind of thing is what you get when you run MKULTRA-tier learned-helplessness psyops on kids via every institution they see from age 3 onwards.
@CaddellBeth@Isaac556x45@AmazonMGMStudio I had a friend who walked out of the theater and got drunk at the movie theater bar. He was that disappointed.
I find his actions understandable. That bad.
@TheNotoriousRDS Totally get it. On paper I should love Texas. I've had many an opportunity to move there but elected not to for the reasons you state. Every time I visit, I sense a small piece of what I admired disappear.