Who Killed Grasscity?

[Digit]

Who Killed Grasscity?

Grasscity, is much like any other thing that is both an ?organization? and a ?community?. We can see many parallels here as with right throughout society. We are society. We have our own little web community in that society, and so, that which is true of all society, must inherently be true of grasscity as part of society. however, its always very difficult (and potentially dangerous) to try to pinpoint that which is true of all.

Certainly it can be said that grasscity is full of really nice people, its a fairly tranquil place, and not a lot of people get worked up about things. Causes of this outcome include the efforts of the Admin & Mods, the soothing color scheme, the mellow nature of stoners & the city being almost entirely stoners (?cannabis consumers?). However, within the one aspect, the actions of the mods, (again, i must stress for fear of misunderstanding, that this applies across society, not just here in Grasscity which i'm just using as a familiar example) I put forward the argument that this does not truly aid the quality of humanity, the safety and peace of society, or whatever it is that any of us expect from the mods & admin. If our actions are curtailed, coerced and even controlled law and master, then it is not us who have improved. If the reaction to ?misbehavior? or ?rule breaking? is punishment, the precedence is set, as coming from an ?authority figure?, one who makes the rules (or at least dishes them out), or role model, that it is ok, and such a scheme will perpetuate itself long into the future given the nature of how our monkey brains learn. If the reaction to ?misbehavior? or ?rule breaking? is exile, then the problem increases in complexity and gets passed on to someone else to deal with (yahooka?). This is very similar to how many of us still deal with our household waste disposal. Stick it in a bag and throw it away. The matter is still there, just out of sight and out of mind, and go back to continuing to ignore how much waste we produce in the world. So why don't we re-use or re-cycle or re-constitute or re-condition all that we dont want and wish to throw away? because it's too difficult. Now part of that is our fault in our lazy fast lane lifestyles, but a bigger part of that is what unwanted stuff we take into our homes. do we really want a piece of plastic wrapping? for what? and once it's done that use? oh yeah, we just throw it away. What goes in must come out, and to take the analogy back and to simplify, ?Don't let others make more crap to be taken in, reform the crap you take in, and don't throw any crap out unless it's reformed?. Unfortunately, such idealism rarely meets the practical world, and so, this message will be lost, ignored or misunderstood, and so the crap will continue, of that i am almost certain.

STOP LYING TO CHILDREN.

Who killed society? Our parents and their's before them, and so on, and us, in what we do every day. We killed society. We are the tall walking monkeys of destruction. *slow clap*

[Bud Head]

Just me!

[Digit]

oi! u don't get all the credit!
me too!

[Tweech's Zone]

Originally Posted by Digit

Who killed society?... We killed society.

So... it was suicide?

[Natural Mystic]

right on digit! did we really kill society though? We are killing the world. But the government set up a corrupt society, were not really killing society, were corrupting it even more and helping the rich get richer and more powerful.

I wish i wasn't so lazy so i could actually help out the world.

[Bud Head]

Originally Posted by Digit

oi! u don't get all the credit!
me too!

OK you, and I killed the city... Maybe one more helped..

[AimedForDeath]

Originally Posted by Bud Head

OK you, and I killed the city... Maybe one more helped..

Hey I helped too =)

[Digit]

arg.

[Gri77oN]

nice one Digit.


well, my counter argument to your argument would kinda be:

Within our (GC) community, the best woulw ne that all members /behave/ in such a way that no rules are broken. In such circumstances, no rulling would be necessary.

to go back to any society, (IMHO) the problem doesn't come the political/economical/cultural/legislative stand of the society, but comes from the actions of the individuals. Should /all/ individuals follow the rules, in the long run, no rules would be needed.


(*do i make any sense...?*)

[TheDudeAbides]

but hypotheticly, we live (Or at least i do) in a democracy, which means we are suposed to have self rule on ourself. Yet there are still unjust laws that are only there to prepetuate the system.

[TheDudeAbides]

http://www.prisonexp.org/

This sort of relates to our discussion.

[IceCreamKidd]

I am a sheep, some1 please herd me. I need to be told what to do. Moooo

[Maitereya]

post of 04' this ones an oldie.

i would like if everyone pitched in and helped their fellow man. is that possible in todays society? are people going to submit to others when theres more than likley a hate of authority instilled in them from being thrown away? maybe these people will create their own society (punk, rap, gothic).

i wonder if mods quit censoring people if this place would turn into anarchy or if people would mod themselves and others. if that constant threat isnt there from the hammer and sicle what would happen?

if we look at other forums people are just assholes and rip on people at every turn. they wouldnt do that to eachothers face, but the protectin of a million miles of cord is satisfying.

if we look at society as a whole, and got together a hundred/a thousand people and made them a community???... that would be a cool tv show.

in the end theres always love, if someone is outcast by the iron fist/mods theres always the possibility that someone will be there to love and society will be a thing to laugh at in retrospect. and then everyone lived happily ever after, the end.

[andymonk]

Love is the answer. Not the selfish love we have been brought up to believe in but the love of the whole first. Everything else will follow from that. To understand what is going on,we need to understand this motto....ordo ab chao(order out of chaos). From the chaos they create,to the order they control.

[hoast]

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