tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post6557116827288588363..comments2024-01-22T16:54:30.446-08:00Comments on Richard Kulisz: Low Trust In CrazylandRichard Kuliszhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-87898431579576710192009-09-03T22:31:56.042-07:002009-09-03T22:31:56.042-07:00What is this "we" white man? I don't...What is this "we" white man? I don't trust people at all. And Americans don't either. Unless by "trust" you mean "expect" in the sense of "I trust Americans to be vicious, blind & stupid raging egotists". If by trust you mean "I trust them with my money" or "I trust them to know right from wrong" then no, I don't trust them. I trust institutions far more than individual people, and the only institutions I trust tend to be Western European ones.Richard Kuliszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450367878517586463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-852055210534507782009-09-03T22:02:07.161-07:002009-09-03T22:02:07.161-07:00So, we usually trust individual people, but not in...So, we usually trust individual people, but not institutions?Doug S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-23985658708743614602009-05-06T04:34:00.000-07:002009-05-06T04:34:00.000-07:00I cannot agree more and I wish more people in the ...I cannot agree more and I wish more people in the US of A had such a clear view beyond their natural fence, their seacoast (or is it more a wall like in Berlin or now in Palestine?), into (not onto) other countries.<br /><br />This says someone with multi-national background (German-Swiss, English, Prussian-German and Austrian-German) who has lived many years in the US, the UK, Germany and done business in most countries of Europe.<br /><br />An open eyed US American today must feel like the majority of Germans during the Nazi years (in reality, not as shown by Hollywood). <br /><br />Where are you Stauffenbergs?The Smalltalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15960913049746916460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-13224524961674537862009-04-20T20:34:00.000-07:002009-04-20T20:34:00.000-07:00Richard, how are you doing? Haven't heard from you...Richard, how are you doing? Haven't heard from you for a while.Ijon Tichyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06058419478587585855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-33316883527344096982009-03-11T23:54:00.000-07:002009-03-11T23:54:00.000-07:00our parks departments aren't that bad. although I ...our parks departments aren't that bad. although I guess pswoo said that too.Caleb Reborn-Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09364471810132015434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-44514296859393723142009-02-07T04:48:00.000-08:002009-02-07T04:48:00.000-08:00Come back to Essembly. Our debate needs some stimu...Come back to Essembly. Our debate needs some stimulation and you have lots of interesting ideas, even though I disagree with most of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-13396080564909489442009-01-21T21:53:00.000-08:002009-01-21T21:53:00.000-08:00Hey, ESAD, this guy is no buffoon. Please try to ...Hey, ESAD, this guy is no buffoon. Please try to characterize accurately!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34203016.post-30809535217816889582009-01-17T17:33:00.000-08:002009-01-17T17:33:00.000-08:00fostercare - literally the least we can dogroup ho...fostercare - literally the <I>least</I> we can do<BR/><BR/>group homes - for when when we can't even afford to do the <I>least</I>; prisons<BR/><BR/>governors - vassals, granted some level of power over their land and its women by the overlords<BR/><BR/>Constitution - prophecies of Old<BR/><BR/>supreme court - rabbis interpretting prophecy<BR/><BR/>founders - prophet deities, father figures, saviours<BR/><BR/>voters - peasants desperately appealing to the overlords for a bag of rice; enablers<BR/><BR/>border patrol - guard dogs (referent of the xenophobe's cry, "release the hounds!")<BR/><BR/>phone companies - will happily assist CIA, FBI<BR/><BR/>greens - prius owners<BR/><BR/>dissidents - Libertarians, cults<BR/><BR/>legal system - governed by archaic rules and lingo; sentences people to death<BR/><BR/>public defenders - to give an air of legitimacy to legal cases against those who can't afford a defense<BR/><BR/>culture - stagnant<BR/><BR/>parenting norms;<BR/><BR/>there's too many... I have to stop. Who's trustworthy, besides the firefighters? National park services, maybe.<BR/><BR/>It's difficult though - there are a lot of things one can trust, but they seem to be localized, sometimes extremely. So I trust things in Washington that I wouldn't trust in California. And even within California, there's a north/south divide (I trust multitudes of things in San Fransisco that I would not in LA).pswoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14925551246066919522noreply@blogger.com