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[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Disturbing to who?

To stupid people? Sure.

[–]Bigs[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Have you ever read the essay "I, Pencil"?

Because you really should.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Are you saying that it is ok to expect the expected and be surprised? When the expected is self destruction from ignorance it doesn't matter who looks at it, you're either a suicidal idiot in this case, or not. Do not be disturbed/surprised when you look at the searing flesh on your hands after playing with fire.

[–]Bigs[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

I'm saying you should read the essay "I, Pencil".

If you were to read it you might understand why this news is so disturbing.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

its just mini meta philosophy. Tell me what you see.

[–]Bigs[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

If you were to read and digest the essay you'd understand how even the humble little pencil is beyond the knowledge or ability of anyone. None of us know how to make a pencil.

So you go killing off large swathes of the population, everything would go to shit faster than you could say "Hey, everything went to shit already! Who knew how desperately we needed all those dumbasses, those dumbasses who knew their stage of pencil-making and all that other stuff that even our basic survival depends upon? Ooer, we're so fucked!"

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

None of us know how to make a pencil.

ok, I lost interest.

[–]Bigs[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Why, because you think you know how to make a pencil?

What's the lead made out of (it's not lead, and how do you make lead anyway?)? What's the rubber made out of (it's not rubber, and how do you make pink rubber anyway?)

How do you make the varnish for the wood?

What exactly is brass, and how do you make it? How do you make the tools to do that? How do you make the materials, to make those tools? How do you transport that material?

You see the point of the essay is that the humble pencil is the most simple machine ever, but I could give you a million dollars and without buying one or paying other people, YOU could not make an HB pencil. You could make some crude charcoal crayon or something, but you could not make one of these:

https://pngimg.com/uploads/pencil/pencil_PNG3855.png

Every step is 100% reliant on other people who know their part, without knowing the roles others need to play. It's the division of labor, 50,000 people all doing their own little job, to create and maintain a system capable of making a pencil.

Yet none of them, individually, has a fucking clue how to make a simple pencil.

The elite think something like 70% of us are 'useless eaters'. If they succeed in the plans to remove that 'excess', they, and we, would rapidly run out of pencils, and everything else.

That's why it's disturbing.

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Not only do I know all of these things (because any one with half a brain and interest in learning will know how), I also know it's a stupid comparison because you don't need a pencil to do the same thing a pencil can do.

YOU could not make an HB pencil. You could make some crude charcoal crayon or something

Or you could just get some ink and a feather.

The elite think something like 70% of us are 'useless eaters'.

I see it more as 90% of people are useless eaters. Including much of the so called elite.

It is still not disturbing, because this is exactly the natural order of things and has existed for thousands of years.

[–]Bigs[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

The question was not 'can you scratch in the mud with your dick" but can you make a pencil?

And if you were of average intelligence you'd accept that no, you cannot. Instead you stick with the comfortable illusion that a pencil is so simple any idiot could make one, revealing that it would be a waste of my time to further explain it or help you understand. Thank you for your time anyway.