Chu The Cud

There are those with different opinions and ideologies than me and I love to listen and debate. Never attacking. That is what we stand for in the USA.

I’m not trying to change anyone’s mindset but to make a clear investigation of my own personal perspective. To use all the tools at my disposal. That’s how I come to my own conclusions.

I don’t use the technology available to hurt myself but to help myself. I look at the facts in many places and investigate the benefits, detriments and long term effects.

We are losing balance.

We are at a place where many use emotions more often to form impulse based logic. Too much emotion impairs judgment, leading to impulsive or biased decisions. Emotions can become a tsunami if left unchecked.

Social media doesn’t advocate for critical thinking of the masses. Just the opposite. It’s crafted to trigger emotions not logic.

Attacking without reading/listening is the playlist. Groupthink narratives pollutes this arena further. Anyone can play. Truth is not required.

When we were young most of us understood we couldn’t fly, even after viewing superheroes do it in a movie or television show.

However, some people thought they could after watching and tried.

We have to stop normalizing insane as rational, or there isn’t a good end for society or humanity.

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Just saw Megalopolis and wow, it was not good. If it wasn’t a Francis Ford Coppola film, I would have walked out about thirty minutes in.

It was slow, the script was all over the place, no character development, it had holes in the story, disjointed and flat, campy overacting like in a bad comic book movie.

No chemistry between any of the characters. It felt and sounded as if they acted against each other in different locations and the conversations were spliced together.

I wanted it to end before it did and when it did it was thrown together quickly.

They all had Roman names in the era of the Roman Empire. 

It felt like an acid trip even though I never did acid.

Of course in this political election climate there’s a scumbag, cross dressing character looking for power, Clodio Pulcher who was characterized as MSNBC would describe Donald Trump. It was more overacting in the film by Shia LaBeouf.  

I took my twenty year old son with me. I wanted him to experience this film in the theater. He was confused as to who was who and what was going on as I was. 

When a man of Francis stature is making art, there needs to be more than only people around him who are enamored with him. He needs guard rails. He did everything on this project and it shows. 

I love his earlier films, watching them many times over. However, after the 1980’s there are not many great ones. 

Well, his Swan Song was a duck quack. Sometime it’s better to stop before you see the, bridge is out sign.

I don’t give any specifics about the story due to not wanting to spoil any scenes for those wanting to see the film.

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This is not meant to criticize anyone. Many of you have grown up with technology in your face constantly. That’s not your fault. 

I’m go glad, I was born at a time a stick was a gun and a rock a grenade. Just living in the moment and enjoying it. Then moving on. 

Today, it’s record the moment and do it again, if it didn’t come out the way you envisioned it. Then spend time posting it and checking up on it. 

It’s a true waste of time. 

Time is most valuable and we waste it constantly. I lived in both worlds. I can compare and contrast with experience. 

To read activates your mind and imagination. 

Activity activates your body, mind and imagination. 

Looking down at your phone activates nothing substantial. 

I see people walking their dogs, walking alone, eating at restaurants, at concerts, in the gym and on and on, and looking at their phone. They’re missing out on all the great architecture, colors, wildlife, flowers, trees people and conversations, among other things. 

Put the phone down and live life the way it supposed to be. It can take one moment a day. 

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Over the last decade plus, young men have been lost due to the labeling of them as toxic, aka Toxic Masculinity. 

A movement that was created in the 1980’s to reform masculinity began to gain steam in the last decade, aggressively shaming men by women and LBGTQ+ for the littlest infraction to them by the DNA of the heterosexual male. 

Women like to use disrespectful terms like mansplaining as a condescending or dismissive manner to discredit what a man is saying, doing or trying to convey. 

Some men overcompensate their masculinity as a protest or backlash while others lose their self-identity and become misunderstood, lost and depressed. 

The breakdown of the nuclear family and one parent home doesn’t help. The absence of a male in the household creates confusion, conflicting feelings, lack of discipline, a male role model and lack of masculine emotional support. 

Also the pressure of programs like DEI, that pushes qualified men out of the high end executive work force, has help to exacerbate the situation.

Men are just there for menial laborers jobs, plumbers, electricians, soldiers and forced to do the work that’s not sought after. 

This is a complex and nuanced issue and is alienating men in our current society. This will lead to tensions and animosity among genders as men are being devalued and devastated. The backlash will wreak havoc as it will eventually create destructive extremism. 

Whether it be gang recruitment, joining congenial militias, escapism through narcotics or school shootings, this issue needs to be addressed before it’s too late. 

The imbalance will lead to broader negative consequences that will be quite profound and severely detrimental to our society.

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