I often imagine how awful it would have been to live in medieval times, before government and corporate healthcare. Imagine the horror of spending time in such a place as this, in Barcelona: Or in this hospital, built in 1443 in France (with its own well and wine cellar):
Sounds like your choices in the upcoming elections in SA are as abysmal as mine here in the US. Not that anything ever changes with regard to people in western societies taking more responsibility for themselves and their actions, no matter who is elected president. The more we have, the lazier and more ungrateful we become.
Yeah, in my corner of the world it feels like a race to the bottom: ugly architecture, ugly rhetoric, ugly desires, ugly people (both physically and spiritually). With everyone seemingly dependent on the State. (Interesting fact: The COVID hysteria lasted as long as it did here because the Feds threatened to pull funding from the public transport authority, and the non-profit tax status of churches, for not going along with the hysteria—health and safety my ass.)
The future is not looking particularly prosperous when the vast majority of people don’t see a problem with unelected bureaucrats running everything, and intelligence agencies running psyops on their own populations.
Sounds like your choices in the upcoming elections in SA are as abysmal as mine here in the US. Not that anything ever changes with regard to people in western societies taking more responsibility for themselves and their actions, no matter who is elected president. The more we have, the lazier and more ungrateful we become.
Yeah, in my corner of the world it feels like a race to the bottom: ugly architecture, ugly rhetoric, ugly desires, ugly people (both physically and spiritually). With everyone seemingly dependent on the State. (Interesting fact: The COVID hysteria lasted as long as it did here because the Feds threatened to pull funding from the public transport authority, and the non-profit tax status of churches, for not going along with the hysteria—health and safety my ass.)
The future is not looking particularly prosperous when the vast majority of people don’t see a problem with unelected bureaucrats running everything, and intelligence agencies running psyops on their own populations.
Nail on the head.
Our vote at the moment is just survival, we will have to tackle the rest afterwards
It will be ANC no matter what. And DA might suicide itself if it gets into bed with the ANC at national level.