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stevennlv
May 06, 2017Explorer
Oh, I'm not saying any of this is new. To quoth the master: "There's a sucker born every minute".
But, things roll down hill and pick up speed; especially big, stinking balls of poop. I am under no illusion of any of this being new. I'm quite sure equivalent conversations were under way when the Visigoths breached the gates of Rome.
But, while being nothing new, it does seem from my own personal experience that the average Joe has become just a little dumber and a little more greedy than they used to be over the last 30 or so years.
That probably tends to happen when a culture passes a certain level of opulence and becomes so soft that any idiot can make it to 90. (The Chinese are just exploiting that fact and looking after their own self interests. I blame them no more than I blame the scorpion.)
Then comes the fires, most of the stupid die off and the rest go on.
At the rate we're going it won't be long before our own Visigoths pay us a visit.
But, things roll down hill and pick up speed; especially big, stinking balls of poop. I am under no illusion of any of this being new. I'm quite sure equivalent conversations were under way when the Visigoths breached the gates of Rome.
But, while being nothing new, it does seem from my own personal experience that the average Joe has become just a little dumber and a little more greedy than they used to be over the last 30 or so years.
That probably tends to happen when a culture passes a certain level of opulence and becomes so soft that any idiot can make it to 90. (The Chinese are just exploiting that fact and looking after their own self interests. I blame them no more than I blame the scorpion.)
Then comes the fires, most of the stupid die off and the rest go on.
At the rate we're going it won't be long before our own Visigoths pay us a visit.
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