My Contrarian Viewpoints
By: Lucas Bazemore
Tags: Perspective Shift, Conspiracy Theories, Personal Development, Perspective, Controversy

These are some personal opinions and beliefs people probably disagree with me. These views are my own and do not represent anyone else. I’m mostly recording them for entertainment value. If you get upset about something, I can’t help it.

My measuring stick for evaluating most ideas is usually utilitarian sustainability: “Will this provide good for the most amount of people over the longest time period compared to alternatives?” So if you disagree with something and can show how your viewpoint has higher utilitarian sustainability, you will probably change my mind.

Now that throws in the challenge of defining “good” and “time period”, but I’ll let you tackle that one. I refrain from defining it explicitly because it changes often.

General & Innocuous

You should be required to get a child-rearing license before having kids. I believe large communal homes with 8–10 adults in one house should be more common. We live in an infinite universe and everything is possible. Yes, infinity minus 1 is still infinity, but you can’t know the universe is minus 1 until you’ve achieved it… so doesn’t that once again make it infinite? I am an irrational (emotional) decision maker, and everyone else is too. If you think you’re rational (cold logic), you’re almost certainly not. Daily stretching & proper breathing are just as important as diet and exercise to living a healthy life style (especially injury and disease free) Movies, music, and art should be appreciated alone without anyone’s opinion affecting your judgement. All workplaces should be required to have a day care on site to allow parents to stay close to kids. (Impractical I know, but separating kids from parents for 8–10 hours a day is insanity) Smartphones and computers shouldn’t be given to children under the age of 10. (The exact number isn’t important, but there is definitive research that children + non-stop stimulation = terrible) Grey walls and offices without windows, should be banned. It’s probably the leading cause of depression (aside from your car)

Divisive

There are potentially cases where eugenics should be practiced. Suitable parents incapable of conceiving should be required to adopt. No surrogates allowed. General global warming and its cause is still inconclusive. We should practice genetic engineering on everything possible. Humans grossly over value human life. Why are you comfortable with the idea of slaughtering cattle by the millions, but abortion is a heinous crime? Hallucinogens should be legalized and ritualized (just like going to church). We should be using hallucinogens properly. Euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legal with the approval a judiciary court, a doctor (that isn’t able to bilk hospitalized patients for insurance money), and the patient themselves or a legal guardian if they are incapacitated. For starters, most likely only conscious, cogent individuals would be allowed. (Yes there are legal issues like property, wills, and probate, but we can work that stuff out.) Most people have differentiation of what they want and what they need. Myself included. Children under the age of 6 have about the same logical reasoning as dogs, so A to B to C statements are hard for them to grasp. They pretty much respond to strictly pain, pleasure, attention, and their primal needs, which means spanking and logical manipulation should be used liberally when trying to communicate. (But probably on someone else’s kids first) Because people just want to be loved and accepted, mass manipulation of individuals (i.e. how Coca Cola equates sugar and caffeine with happiness) is surprisingly too easy. Almost every America presidential assassination has been followed by a going to war. War makes money. Same goes for conspiracy theories. *cough* 9/11 *cough*

Weird & Ludicrous

Antarctica was home to a prior civilization and has been covered by ice for less than a 1,000,000 years. Fingerprints of the Gods — Graham Hancock There is no such thing as free will. We’re all totally determined beings. I can prove it, but you won’t agree. Have you ever had that moment, where you suddenly remembered, “oh shoot, I completely forgot to do that!” Did you “choose” to think that? Nope. It just happened to you. You didn’t choose your parents, or genetics, or the first 18 years of your life. This pre-programming drives 100% of your decisions. You have no free will. Because even your “choices” are only choices to you. But your desire for “autonomy” is so strong, you won’t believe me. Sorry. People of Asian decent show physical attributes of having evolved millions of years ahead of present homo sapiens (short height, homogeneous phenotype, lack of body hair) and could be the prior civilization that was here… or aliens. My answer to the Fermi Paradox: They’ve visited, and they didn’t give a shit. Life happens to you. All you are is a conscious observer. (Back to the whole determined beings thing.) I can’t wait to die. Like I can generally imagine every experience to some extent based on the emotions I’ve currently had, but death is something NO ONE can describe. Curiosity will kill this cat.

What’s your “contrarian” viewpoint?