Just like the folks above indicate, the procedure is easy and recovery is fine unless it isn't. After icing for 3 days or whatever, it seemed like I was out of the woods, but there was some additional swelling and pain that lasted about 3 months. It was a nuisance, but certainly not a deterrent.
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I feel like as soon as anyone has to resort to picking some historical name and going "nonono, THIS is what they originally wanted", the plot was lost long ago. Whether it's Marx, or Jesus, or the Founding Fathers or whoever else. It's one thing to reflect and ask "what can they teach us", but past that, time could be much better spent on modern perspectives and solutions. That kind of thinking is a fallacy. An appeal to tradition.
I partially agree, although I do highly encourage listening to people in their own words. There's lots of ideas that get lost in translation, especially when you hear someone else's paraphrasing or interpretation of what a person said or did.
I'm being specific about deriving authority from what was originally said. "We have to do it this way, because that's what the founding fathers always intended." "I can't do this, because it goes against the teachings of Jesus."
Modern thinking is self sufficiency. Marx was lazy and blew through his inheritance. He had money, yet pretended his ineptitude was a byproduct of something other than his poor stewardship. Facts are facts, no matter how much you don't want them to be true.
I'll be honest, I have no idea what you're trying to say. Some guy being bad with his money a long time ago doesn't (or shouldn't) have much bearing on the way we try to solve present problems. I don't deny Marx may have been lazy, but I have no need to judge his character because I don't hold him up as an authority in the first place. There are many modern ways of thinking, and some of them are centered around self-sufficiency, and many are not.
I think I laid it out in a basic format. What I said is what I mean. Embrace community. Be a maker, not a taker. Remain at enmity with those seeking to sow divisiveness. You are unique, you are valuable. You have control over your future. Be self sufficient so that no one can remove your ability to provide and thrive. It doesn't take a large sum of capital to do this, just takes will.
Well, Marxism is on the rise over the past 50 years. Do with that statement what you will. You're valuable, you're unique. You may be part of a class, but you are not that class. You are you. If you have people or family that depend on you, invest in ways to be self sufficient. I choose to be at enmity with divisiveness.
At the risk of diving into what should be in the politics threads, I think that some derivatives of socialism are what's on the rise, not literally Marxism. The only place I see the word Marxism come up anywhere that isn't art, is from right-wing talking points about "cultural Marxism" which is so loosely defined that it basically just means "whatever I disagree with right now" - in the same way that conservatives have always called whatever ideas they don't like "communism". These are all distinct and different and specific terms that aren't interchangeable. I'm not an expert in them, because I don't specifically subscribe to them or care about the labels themselves, but I know well enough not to conflate them.
But what if I choose to believe that the family that depends on me isn't my literal atomic family, but rather my adopted metaphorical family that is my community? And then what if I extend that community to include my whole city? My whole province? My whole country? And why stop there? Why not operate under a model of the world where every person, no matter how self-sufficient they may be, depends on other people in at least some small way? Then it would be in my best interest to make choices that support everyone, and not just myself.
Capitalism is working out just great with zero examples of any of those negatives, you betcha.
Free markets work just fine. Crony capitalism, not so much.
