Fuck Vantablack.

Asshole Anish Kapoor bought it so he could keep it to himself and not allow any other artist to use it.

That's like the ultimate dick move. Make a ton of money off your questionable art and instead of paying it forward, you take products off the market for your exclusive use so no other up and coming artists can use it as a medium.

Thanks for the pp!! I'll continue pay it forward when I can

I think they just wanted a play on "pay it forward," and that was the closest they could get that also implied the element of hidden camera surprise.

Every time there's a hidden camera thing focused around a server who's supposed to be such a wonderful, kind person, I always secretly hope they'll be caught on tape being a total asshole.

"Over time, we're going to see what works and what doesn't and things will generally settle down"
Illusion and fantasy...total confabulation.

A government is a simple creation really, it uses force to achieve the end goal which is control, not unlike a rapist or a thief-The antithesis of liberty in the example of say, the American government works because force is used by an immoral core of liars and thieves to achieve goals that benefit the few rather than the whole of society. Examples of just how fucked things are at face value VooDooV, why bother to cite the examples that are glaringly obvious to anyone who at their core, is a moral and free individual...pointless and insulting to anyone who can think.

Mind you, infrastructure and social safety nets enhance freedom, but what should the end-goal be? To enhance the moral framework of a society, which has surely not been done so far with the American form of government, on the contrary, we see the fabric of what makes a society prosper and maintain a fairness for all being eroded to serve the interests of a few, through force and control...through civil liberties being chipped-away at through surveillance and more prisons, more laws, more fines and punishments for more people, etc. Deficit spending pays debt forward to further enslave the recipients of services like roads and social welfare programs, higher education, etc. The freedom to make poor choices at a micro and macro level is what the current government is all about, getting worse every year.

Urban sprawl will continue as folks with pipe-dreams tout more green, less energy usage, cleaner burning cars and factories, etc. One 'problem' is addressed by creating one for another somewhere else.

Ever listen to Buckminster Fuller's idea of a 'green' or 'energy efficient society'? It doesn't use ANY of the current models of societal structure, it pretty much SCRAPS them all for a trans-formative way of moving forward. The old models are shit if they accomplish them through force and control of human activity. YOU don't live in a democratic system, in case you have been asleep for your entire life, democracy is only a fucking word, a concept not unlike any 'ism' created by humans in the past 3000-7000 years.

The financial structure of the United States is inherently evil. It can not be made fair and moral for everyone, it wasn't designed to. It is designed to serve the few at the top, with enforcers and regulators at the bottom-tier of their system. The government is NOT inherently evil but it has been hijacked by cunts.

Just because you think you know how politicians should perform, does not make it happen that way. Sane health care system? Nope. Maybe for the privileged classes-What they hand the masses is complete shit. National debt? Foreign policy? How would YOU do it? Then that's probably saner than the way it's being run, innit? Government is not needed for ANY of these aspects of a civil and moral society to function. All it takes is moral and sane judgement and agreement at solutions and for folks to voluntarily subscribe to these actions, without force, without police, without armies, etc.

Many more examples too many to pontificate upon, many variables of systems, all of which could function to afford everyone freedom and liberty, WITHOUT a government. The government is a construct just like everything else man creates-It takes willing humans to make them either function efficiently, or to scrap them for something new and improved.

I'm no libertarian, no anarchist, just a practical human being.
There are more reasons for scrapping the world system of government than there are for maintaining them, you simply refuse to see any other way THAN systems of government.

Mankind can self-govern if it does so with a formidable and sound moral compass...Is mankind doing that? It can also make the entire planet it's playground if it chooses to do so...Is mankind doing this??
FUCK NO!

Pay it forward. Great way to live your life.

Thanks! Your * promotes helped a lot. Now I can pay it back and pay it forward.
In reply to this comment by Boise_Lib:
Congrats on the Gold, messenger.

This guy was a douche from jump street. Normally I would say that you shouldn't treat law enforcement the way he did. But honestly, you shouldn't treat anyone the way he treats the border officer. This isn't just 'be polite and you won't be detained', be polite and people will go out of their way to help you.

Another way this douche is a douche: after complaining about oh, how can he be expected to sit down when he isn't given a reason to sit down, he screams at his wife to sit down, just sit down, just sit down. "Why?" "Just sit down. Just sit down. Sit down." Fuck off guy.

Show some respect to your wife. Show some respect to the border patrol. Show some respect to your fellow man so we can all do what needs to get done.

Smile at someone today. Thank the guy who serves you your morning coffee. And if a cop is outside on your way in to buy that coffee, offer to buy him one too. Pay shit forward.

Meh don't let it go to your head, I used to use my points for nothing but promoting my own stuff on my way to a ruby. I haven't posted much in the way of vids lately so i've been paying it forward so to speak. I think you're just getting lucky with videos that catch my eye. We must have the same tastes which is fine by me! :-D

I used to get a lot of good sifts from the huffington post video page. You should check it out sometime, they update it about once every day or so: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/video/

In reply to this comment by Duckman33:
Wow, thanks again JJ.

Pay it forward

Ha, yeah, I said (maybe foolishly) that the only payment I wanted was for him to pay it forward (which he was too wasted to understand the concept).
Anyway, the star point was a bit of cheer. Thanks!

In reply to this comment by burdturgler:
That was some *quality good samaritan work.
Sorry about the shit sandwich etc

I'm glad we're in agreement.

In the mean time, come to the grand opening of the gallery. You appreciate art, don't you?

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Good plan, funnily enough i was looking at pay it forward scenes just yesterday haha. I'll bear it in mind

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I'm glad I could do it. Don't worry about paying me back. Do the old "pay-it-forward" routine instead. It all comes back around eventually.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thanks very much again to you Kronos, I'll be sure to do the same for you one day when I can, if that day ever comes haha. You're a star, cheers mate

Good plan, funnily enough i was looking at pay it forward scenes just yesterday haha. I'll bear it in mind

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I'm glad I could do it. Don't worry about paying me back. Do the old "pay-it-forward" routine instead. It all comes back around eventually.

In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thanks very much again to you Kronos, I'll be sure to do the same for you one day when I can, if that day ever comes haha. You're a star, cheers mate

You didn't have to upvote my queue for that, Kronos, but I appreciate it. I like to commit random acts of kindness on unsuspecting Sifters from time to time... just pay it forward.