[JJ]

for some reason for a while I've had the feeling that we are just trying to fill our time until we die, a kind of time management if you will...

good read: link

[Revi]

I read his book and I have to say that this is what all Empires do. The inhabitants of the empire are so full of nonsense that they can't think about what's really going on.

[vtsnowedin]

It certainly takes him a while to get to the point. That last paragraph was rather chilling and fits right in with the best doomer porn zombism around here.

[sittinguy]

AAHHHH, that last paragraph, I think it is true, and coming soon.

Its true I'm addicted to doom, I need to go back to the hun, and forget this crap,,,, but I can't

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') spent two years traveling the country to write a book on the Christian right called “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” I visited former manufacturing towns where for many the end of the world is no longer an abstraction. Many have lost hope. Fear and instability have plunged the working class into profound personal and economic despair, and, not surprisingly, into the arms of demagogues and charlatans of the radical Christian right who offer a belief in magic, miracles and the fiction of a utopian Christian nation.

Unless we rapidly re-enfranchise these dispossessed workers, insert them back into the economy, unless we give them hope, these demagogues will rise up to take power. Time is running out. The poor can dine out only so long on illusions. Once they grasp that they have been betrayed, once they match the bleak reality of their future with the fantasies they are fed, once their homes are foreclosed and they realize that the jobs they lost are never coming back, they will react with a fury and vengeance that will snuff out the remains of our anemic democracy and usher in a new dark age.

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he American oligarchy—1 percent of whom control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined—are the characters we most envy and watch on television.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pablonite', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he American oligarchy—1 percent of whom control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined—are the characters we most envy and watch on television.

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'P')eople don't stop to think about the huge impact TV has on us.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'P')eople don't stop to think about the huge impact TV has on us.. rather than connect with our local communities and those in our own socio-economic class, TV encourages average folks to "identify" with the rich and famous. This is why every Joe the Plumber really thinks he's gonna buy out his boss one day, and votes with the rich even though he is poor.

[Kristen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pablonite', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he American oligarchy—1 percent of whom control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined—are the characters we most envy and watch on television.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'T')he inhabitants of the empire are so full of nonsense that they can't think about what's really going on.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pablonite', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'P')eople don't stop to think about the huge impact TV has on us.

[efarmer]

Quote: "The poor can dine out only so long on illusions."

Silly man, you look at illusions not eat them, illusions are what you look at
to get your mind off of the horrible things you do often have to eat in life.
And you don't dine out in times like these, you make sure you have some
illusions to look at while you eat some horrible stuff at home.

And addicted to nonsense? I think nonsense has found out how good of
an environment we provide for it to prosper and thrive, and it is instead,
hopelessly addicted to us, and is in fact a blasted parasite that takes
our attention away to where we can't look at illusions, and take our minds off
of all the horrible stuff we are being served daily.

I must admit that last paragraph was a gut wrenching jump off the Angst
Street Bridge into the dumpster of doom, with sufficient landing impact to
flip the lid shut once you slam down inside.

You write good, and you doom pretty swell, got any happy stuff?