MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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What are we afraid of?
By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 3:23am |Take your mind off politics a minute - or use this to think about what this means for real people in politics, real people in life.
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http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/ten-meter-tower/
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To be honest, my first reaction, and a strong one, is "why?" Why are they even contemplating doing it? Because it's supposed to be fun? Who said so? Why do they believe them?
by artappraiser on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 1:40pm
Money, challenge, control of self, embarrassment, peer pressure....
They were offered $30 to jump - kind of a minimal amount to go "why the heck not?" until you get 10m up and look down.
I still get a kick thinking about how each of these people might argue from a Republican or Democratic viewpoint on any of the standard issues we've discussed the last year - say super confident in digital ink, scared shitless hopping off a board, impatient with others but quite fragile themselves... Yeah, goes for myself as well.
Maybe if we could force people to have debates on the 10m platform and *then* jump off, either depending on X or Y condition or simply because, it would change the meter of the arguing. Would someone feel cocky enough to pop a protestor in the mouth if they were up 10m high and about to step into space? Okay, ex-military folks and divers may not have any problem, but still, it adds a different dynamic to a stereotypical situation.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 2:54pm
Wow! That was cool! I jumped off a 40' cliff into the Caribbean once. Why? Because I wanted to see what it felt like. Did I learn anything? Yes:
When a lady jumps from that height into the water she should keep her feet together!
Would I do it again? Probably not
by CVille Dem on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 3:36pm