[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'C')an we say "peak Paris" ?

[EnergyUnlimited]

Pointles to make a scapegoat of someone, would it be a Dick Turner or Paris Hilton.
Reckless driving is a minor offence really and should be addessed by fine and/or driving ban for a year or so.
There are far more serious offences, which authorities shoud begin to pay more attention to.
That (or similar other) sentences is for me only further evidence of increasing decadence and terminal disease of western societies.

[TheTurtle]

Oh, when I read the title, I thought you meant France and I wondered what the City of Light had done now.

Nevermind.

[Daculling]

Paris might be wise to take this man's advice...



Didnt they put her in "real" prison this time? County lockup?

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'C')an we say "peak Paris" ?

[Laughs_Last]

I hope she uses her time in prison to start a career as a rap musician. Yo, I'm givin' a shout out to all my socializzites locked down in tha pen!

[katkinkate]

She should be given the same punishment anyone else who'd done the same gets. No more, no less.

[SevenTen]

Law, police, and government are as full of bullshit as every other section of modern society.

There is no justice, only mercy or cruelty.

But seeing her working a highway cleanup crew would at least be funny.

[Pops]

Have the sand-hole-viewers of the US finally appreciate her ilk for what they have accomplished, what their impact in the real world is and treat them accordingly…

IOW, ignore them.


I had to laugh when one talking head said something over video footage of the circus at her last hearing that I told my wife could have been posted on this site:

We are watching the downfall of western civilization - live on TV.

[kochevnik]

Over the next 5-8 years or so, in the USA, you are going to see increasing distrust of govt, and institutions in general - to the point where we will most likely have a third party pop up and win the Presidency. One of the hallmarks of this sea change will be that people and behaviors previously tolerated or even encouraged, will be come verbotten and despised. The reason for this is something coming (PO or not) called ekpyrosis where every eighty years or so (the length of a long human life) the 'old' ways of doing things get replaced with the 'new'.

Paris Hilton (as ridiculous a cartoon character as she is) is a symbol of what is coming down the pike. Here we have the person MOST 'admired' by many in current society, DOING a stint in jail. Her money, her fame, her family's power did nothing to protect her from the same type of punnishment as some low-class hood would have experienced.

It may be wacky to look at such a trivial thing in such a deep manner, but I believe that there are 'signs' / hints / intuitions that are given to us as an individual and as a society that we can choose to heed or we can choose to ignore - with the resultant consequences for either path.

This is one such hint.

[Carlhole]

Cycles of History

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Web site of Marlowe C. Embree, Ph.D Psychology, University of Wisconsin', 'S')trauss and Howe (whose ideas are, admittedly, controversial: see the note at the end of this Web page) begin with the observation that a wide range of sociological, psychological, and economic variables -- from crime rates to attitudes about gender to vocational patterns -- are well correlated and track in tandem, in a generally predictable, cyclic fashion (see the figure below, where X = time, Y = some empirical variable of interest)...

They note that just as a human life traditionally has four "seasons" each lasting about 20-22 years -- the "spring" of childhood, the "summer" of young adulthood, the "autumn" of midlife, and the "winter" of elderhood -- so, too, can the cultural saeculum be divided in this way. The parallel is that just as humans are born, live, and die, so eras or epochs in history (the saecula) have a natural life span: they are bounded by (begin with, and end with) a time of crisis, chaos, external threat (such as a major war), or ekpyrosis. At the end of each saeculum, the culture must, in a sense, die and be reborn -- or fail to be reborn, as when an entire civilization ceases to exist. The transformation in a society engendered by moving from one saeculum to another is so dramatic, so radical, so much of a "quantum leap" change that one might say that the society is born into a "new world". (Hence, Americans still use the phrase "postwar" to refer to the contemporary era or saeculum, even though World War II took place nearly sixty years ago.) As a nation, America has experienced three such ekpyroses or saecular crises: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Great Depression and World War II. If Strauss and Howe are right, we are due for yet another one -- the end of the current saeculum -- somewhere around the year 2025. This is, of course, a testable hypothesis, so it will be interesting to see whether or not they are correct; if alive, I will only be 70, and hopefully capable of reflecting on the concept.

[TWilliam]

I mean give me a break. FOUR separate threads in the last week?? Come ON...

[Bas]

make that five...

[TWilliam]

Yes, well... I *did* consider counting this one too...

[mmasters]

I don't think the founders ever imagined of movie stars and spoiled brats dominating the top stories in the news.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'I') don't think the founders ever imagined of movie stars and spoiled brats dominating the top stories in the news.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ointles to make a scapegoat of someone, would it be a Dick Turner or Paris Hilton.
Reckless driving is a minor offence really and should be addessed by fine and/or driving ban for a year or so. There are far more serious offences, which authorities shoud begin to pay more attention to. That (or similar other) sentences is for me only further evidence of increasing decadence and terminal disease of western societies.

[leal]

It is much nicer to look at young girls than middle aged men talking about peak oil

[kochevnik]

I'd like to point out that I beat Kunstler to the punch - or maybe he stole the idea after reading my post LOL

Kunstler & Hilton

It's been very interesting to watch how absolutely spot on these guys have been - from the 'terrorists flying planes into buildings' prediction IN 1997 ! - to the recent articles detailing the beginning of the class war between Boomers and the X & Y generations.

Such a shame they are so ignored - but on the other hand - so much better for me as it's like being Hari Seldon and being able to predict the future in rough form.

You're right tho - you've got this 4T pegged.