[centralstump]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pablonite', '
')
“Unfortunately, because of the reduction of influence exerted neighbors, the extended family and even the family, social control is now often more dependent on external control, than on internal self-control.

Oh, darn, he says. Since that “unfortunate” breakdown of conscience and the family structure, the social order is now dependent on “external control.” Read that, “The State.” ”

Yes, it was a very unfortunate thing that happened.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('centralstump', '
')The enemy to truth in the United States of America is the corporate controlled media.

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('centralstump', 'Y')our author is missing the point. Communism and ethical relativism is not the enemy. The enemy to truth in the United States of America is the corporate controlled media. You do not need to believe in conspiracies. Truth is crazier than fiction. They are all doing it right out of front of you.

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('centralstump', 'Y')our author is missing the point.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '
')But you know what, it's a lot more comforting to think that some controllable entity like the media, corporate america, or politics, is the root of all evil.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('centralstump', '
')I honestly do not know where you live. I am living in a house with my wife and 3 children. My sister lives down the street with her husband and 3 children. My brother lives accross town with his wife and 4 children. My parents live here too. I look around and all I see is a strong family. On Sunday, I see the same people at church talking to god.
. The family seems fine to me. (too fine actually. I am a little ashamed to admit the 3 children to this crowd and my dang wife got herself knocked up again)
!

[centralstump]

[centralstump]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '
')But you know what, it's a lot more comforting to think that some controllable entity like the media, corporate america, or politics, is the root of all evil.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilFinder2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', 'D')oes anyone here NOT want BAU to continue? I mean seriously?

[AgentR]

All the available options in the pole assert the axiom that doom means some form of rapid crash. I don't accept such a conclusion, so I can only say, "none of the above".

Would I like BAU to continue, absolutely. I love my air conditioning, no sane Houstonian would ever say otherwise. BAU keeps my A/C running and my family well fed; simple as that.

Can BAU continue? And for how long?

Am I a doomer if I assert that BAU could easily continue for several more decades?

Does your answer change if I assert that the downward sliding slope that we are on has no bottom short of a near extinction bottleneck with a reasonable possibility of the end of the species homo sapiens, and that that bottleneck could easily happen this century?

[mike3]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'B')ut you know what, it's a lot more comforting to think that some controllable entity like the media, corporate america, or politics, is the root of all evil. If we actually had to face our greater culture as manifested by 300+million americans let alone all of the developed world, then it's intractable.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mike3', '
')However, if it's "intractable", then doesn't that mean "do nothing" since "nothing can be done"? If so, then how does this differ from having one's head in the sand? Knowledge is only good if it can lead to action.