Aspies For Freedom

Are there any BIG possible issues in our time that we don't have much focus on?

I have some suggestions:

• We have apartheid after nationality, a norwegian get alot more for working the same job as an Etiopian. Because of the western oil our governments have the power to keep it that way.

• There are many unproductive people in the western world for different reasons, this may contribute to the poverty in the third world.

• Our world is too dependent of China's trade. If China decided to boicott trade the rest of the world would meet a fatal crisis, maybe China would use this as a power, maybe when starting the third world war.

I think one of the big hidden issues of the time is the cumulative effect the media is having on the collective psychie and soul of society, as well as us as individuals.

It seems that every year the media as a whole pushes the envelope of degeneration, and the world degenerates further.  Some would say that the media is just reflecting the state of the world, but, I feel that is wrong.  I think the media is driving the state of the world through endless repetition of despicable content.

As an Aspie my thoughts are driven by what I consume in a way that I am very aware of.  I think this is just indicative of a process which all humans, including NTs, share but which they are simply unaware of.  I think to change the world we have to change the media.

The media isn't all positive as it works currently apparently.

Another possible one.

People aren't really that determined to help the community they live in. Students often only work for their grades, not knowledge. The system of this society we live in today is work-arounded in many places, which is often bad for those who really want to be good for their community.

Yes, that's true. But China is growing mightier and richer and prolly have the possibility to do some work-around tricks.

There should definitely be more pain in not working. It's cheaper and more effective than rewards for the "successful".

To say it brutal:

Working, not working
You live either way

While having something in the back of your mind that you view as death (which it ofcourse can't be) you would have more motive to do at least something.

I think some people today are afraid of showing how much they can do, trying and failing being a shame. Prefering not even trying to do something as more comfortable.

When I write "unproductive" I also refer to people who has a job but aint really doing any effort in it. Ever noticed that when supposed to do groupwork people start talking about entertainment and don't do anything?

Yes indeed. You only have to look at shows such as "Big Brother" to see that the mass media are promoting rubbish and poor morals.

I think another major issue is anomie - a feeling of aimlessness and not belonging anywhere. It's not just us who are prone to such feelings either. I don't think the nuclear family is necessarily the best way to organise society as it isolates too many people from their other relatives.

Mind you, I can well understand in some instances why people would put a great distance between themselves and their 'rellies. I'm talking in general terms about the social benefits of extended families in better promoting social cohesion.

I think much of the problem is because the mass media is concentrated in the hands of too few individuals eg. Rupert Murdoch. The quality tends to trend down towards the lowest common denominator.

I don't think people (in the U.S., at least) pay enough for their food, and that they are unwilling to pay for what their food is worth and what it costs to produce it. The result of this is that farmers are going out of business all over the place, and we are dependent upon other coutnries for their food, which is sometimes contaminated and very often produced with chemicals and methods that are not legal here.

Meanwhile, agricultural jobs can be hard to get, and if you do get them, don't pay well. Farmers work hard, they should get paid a living wage, or at least minumum wage.

Well, that isn't true. I have done some farm labor myself, and as a homeless mother, I was very happy to get the job. All the other workers there were also white Americans, and yeah, they were all happy to have the work, too.

But the bottom line is this: farm labor isn't profitable, and it should be. It's nice to work outdoors, a heck of a lot nicer than being stuck in some factory, but most farm/food production type jobs pay minimum wage or close to it. I think a lot of aspies would do fine working in relative solitude with crops, plants, or farm animals- I know that it's my ideal.

Then there are the farmers who simply will not hire white people (this is especially prevalent in the Southwest) because the Mexicans will work for a fraction of the minimum wage.

I got it! It's crystal clear.

First, you're wrong.  Alcohol kills more people than does tobacco, even if "used as intended".
Second, If people know the risk and are willing to take it, what's the problem?

The government interferes in private life and private choices far too much already.  Why do people want to be infants their whole lives, "taken care of" by some enormous nanny state?

Wasn't there some really massive marches just last year or so with a lot of paper-less workers?

Guns are another product sold in America that will kill somebody else if it's used as intended.

That was not the kind of gun we were talking about.

I meant any type of gun that you can operate yourself while moving, I guess. The reason why guns are so extremely popular among the 300+ millions of you is that it was because of the self armament & self defence from the Brits back before the United States of America was born. It's in the amendments of course. It's ingrained in the people. The right to wear arms for your own defense .The basic stock of that Great Nation was poor Europeans looking for a way to live, like the 1.250.000 swedes that went there between 1830 & 1910. You may look upon the French Revolution, as a, sort of, European counterpart and if you find that to be reasonable. While big old Europe sucked the life out of the whole of  Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia and well, a lot of places and people they also fought each other up until just recently, America became bigger and bigger (on the cost of a lot of death and destruction to the people who already lived there and equally the people who were brought there like slaves) and had a civil war that lasted for 4 years on the way to a more stable "disorder" and has ever since the end of that internal conflict maintained peace within its own boundaries and attack "so called" free nations or keep arming one side in an internal conflict within the borders of "so called" free nations and ever since the Atrocities  "known as" Viet Nam; WAR MUST BE KEPT OUT OF AMERICA! Who benefits? The Arms industry? Wow! That's one powerful industry! I mean - War Makes Money.

While Europeans grew up a little. Smaller countries. Strange weather. They talk strange. It had been roughly the same since at least the Battle at Hastings in 1066; small wars, sometimes very long, very costly. A once powerful nation, becomes the defeated nation but the infra structure remain. That made for a stable population, sometimes isolated to things that we call "cities", but nontheless in a very fixed position.

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