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Empires Decline | 13 comments (13 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: I'm rarely the optimist, but ... (none / 0)

control of information dispersal was always a critical weakness of us, the good guys. The internet, cell phones with cameras, etc. has changed that.

If WE want to change things for the better, then WE have to get off out fat rear ends and FORCE the power elite to change things.

That could get ... unpleasant, you say.

Hell, I'm already an old man. I really don't have that much to lose.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Feb 5th, 2009 at 03:57:52 PM EST

Re: I'm rarely the optimist, but ... (none / 0)

I am a baby boomer so that means I am a child of the most frugal of American generations. My parents grew up knowing the depression and the Big One,WWII. They were successful and saved for their retirement only to have that sucked away by the engineered economic swindle of all times. Yes, it's already unpleasant.

by Lasthorseman on Thu Feb 5th, 2009 at 04:30:06 PM EST
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Re: I'm rarely the optimist, but ... (none / 0)

Hail and Well met, Last. May we meet before the end. I'll be one of the folks with a bullhorn before I'm hauled off to rot in prison.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Feb 5th, 2009 at 07:59:55 PM EST
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