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Originally Posted by 98civicDX
I had to take my older brother somewhere today and it was funny. He started getting pissed off and yelling on my driving techniques. But i pointed out to him little things like no need to accelerate to a red light and basic hypermiling. He had no idea. Its crazy how most drivers are oblivious to theyre driving habits. They all want to floor it to a red light and slam on the brakes. I showed him how even though cars where passing me, i was keeping up with them in the long run. He didnt care. He calls me a cheapo. I tell him it has nothing to do with the money. It has become more of a challenge.  |
Poor guy, just one of the sheeple. He wasn't in a college fraternity was he? A Tea party member? So uncomfortable with "norms" outside of TV. Goes out in public unshaven, wearing a t-shirt and has a few Stoopid Stamps on his arms? "Indie" music? Fox News? HuffPo? . . . all the variations on the same agenda.
Consumer culture's a problem for everyone. Rejecting it is
treasonous!
Anything that may require some intellectual application is not only suspect, but
elitist.
Try him out on a word like
resilience. Is it a tag someone else told him to reject (based on ad hominem disparagement), or can he discuss it conceptually?
It's even more fun when scientific models are thought to be of religious import.
Older brothers can be a lifelong source of fun.
More soberingly: Americans use
more than twice the per capita energy use of Europeans. But it's laughable (can't-breathe-laughable) that our lives are twice as good. It isn't even comparable since their societal arrangements are so much better. (Despite now sinking under the same parasitic bankers).
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