So much rot, decay, weakness, excess, and illusion, it may take a Depression to wring it out, assuming it can be wrung out. If we can’t wring it out, even more severe calamities may await (Revolution? Foreign Control? Occupation? Continual and Cascading Ecological Disasters? Military Dictatorship? Neo-Feudalism?).
The young aren’t going to save things in their present state of illusion, delusion, escapism, and denial. Case in point: many of them did not know (or care) there was any government budget problem, let alone have an idea of what it is all about.
And why are people so easily twisted into ignorance or believing their prejudices? Because they value things other than being informed. They may know everything about their favorite sports teams or celebrities, for example, but little about their government, and often what they little they think they know is wrong. So they are easily manipulated pawns for those who carefully (and often anonymously) plant disinformation and misinformation to emotionally inflame them.
Often this manipulation comes in the guise of “we’re all in the same boat” sentiments of what is really false solidarity. I was warned about this long ago:
“The rich had their money, Jimmie. They didn’t suffer in the Depression. Don’t let all this talk about ‘everyone was poor and in it together’ fool you. I was there.”
My grandfather and his son were so much smarter than I ever thought.
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