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Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by trfhuhg on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:48PM (#23399143)
Many comments here assuming that we can get out of this hole we've fallen into by changing laws or replacing the administration.

Perhaps things are falling apart because of the massive influx of underdeveloped evil egos: they've got a supermajority mostly everywhere and can ignore the few good people. This is what some Hindi manuscripts mean by kali-uga - the dark age.

With this skeptical view in mind, there isn't much we can do to reverse the flow. It's a flood and we can do our part to minimize the damage, but ultimately we have to wait when the weather changes.

Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by pasquinelli on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:19AM (#23399638)
There aren't that many people with power. We can only assume these underdeveloped evil egos have a supermajority within a group of a few thousand. Numerically, that's not an unmanagable problem, supposing it's the case.
Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by trfhuhg on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:51AM (#23400267)
It's apparently enough to have just a few people with visible power. I'm just saying, the reason we see so much snow everywhere is because it's the winter of the human civilization. And no, the winter won't end because some good minded folks issued a decree that from now on its summer.
Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by troughway on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:49PM (#23399475)
I remember seeing "kali uga" somewhere, but it's not pretty, and unfortunately, still somewhat relevant today given this whole thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lightning_and_the_Sun

Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by sdhrnrhbrt on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:36AM (#23400174)
"Yuga" is a large timespan in a human civilization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga.
Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by Buttons840 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:45AM (#23399807)
What is an "underdeveloped evil ego"?
Re:DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors by trfhuhg on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:42AM (#23400214)
It's a "toddler ego" that acts according to its naive idea of the world. Often, they aren't knowingly evil. It's known that kids are often cruel, but change as they grow. Same here.