(March 28, 2017 at 6:23 pm)Sterben Wrote:(March 28, 2017 at 9:47 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The lion doesn't leave when the ostrich buries its head.
If you want to remain ignorant of those connections, great, turn off the news and continue feasting on your mental cotton-candy.
You don't seem to understand what's at stake ... and you've just admitted that you don't want to. How pathetic is that?
I do understand what is occurring, it is something that be avoided entirely, only the impact can be soften. It's a problem that occurs to every empire through out every empire. The U.S has grown too big big to keep under control and demonstrate a type of logic that is needed to maintain a empire of this size. A single lion can only hunt so many ostriches, we could scream as loud as you can in the streets. You can go on national television and be on every channel warning people on what is going to happen, but few will listen. Since I know the phases of most every empire, it's human nature that is at fault here. Instead of myself trying to warn people, why would I want to go to these lengths to help people, when these people can't help themselves?
You must be one hell of a masochist, to want to try to wake people up from this dream state we exist in. I wish you the best of luck on trying to improve things, as for a person who tried a few times with no success in educating people on what is happening. The ship is going down and there is no life boat or aid on it's way to help us. The more intelligent in this type of situation save themselves over others, and I'm saving myself first.
Oooh, well you're clearly too smart for me to continue this conversation ... even though you're the one expressing a preference for ignorance. Then you top it off by making the assumption -- and that's all it is, a fatuous assumption -- that I'm not well-read on history. The fact that that assumption is self-serving for you is surely a coincidence, no?
Tell us again -- how is your ignorance going to, in your words, "save [your]self"? How is cutting yourself off from facts going to save you anything except worry?
You're not saving jack-shit. You're plugging your ears, crying "lalalalala", and you want a cookie for it. Sorry, I'm fresh out of cookies. Go begging elsewhere for the cred you so obviously want. Me, I'll keep fighting our rights and freedoms, and if the only thing that earns from you is scorn, so be it. You won't be the first lazy ingrate I've ever met in my life.
