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2022-09-12 -Great Cultural Revolution

'VDH-We went mad because we easily could. And we could, not because we were poor and oppressed, but because we were rich and bored.

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-12 08:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. Children, too, of Eve, forever building Edens – and kicking them apart in berserk fury because somehow it isn’t the same."

"When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn."
Walter Miller

Posted by James 2022-09-12 10:44|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2022-09-12 10:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Who's this "we?" Brings back the old days of Herb. The madness of others does not derange me, it just sharpens my focus on what is sane.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-12 10:55|| 2022-09-12 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes.
I'm mad of my own accord.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-12 13:21|| 2022-09-12 13:21|| Front Page Top

#4 They are terrified after the Afghanistan debacle that their old ally or new homeland, the once constant America, is delirious, incompetent, and self-loathing, and now there is no plausible alternative to the old American deterrence.

What the fuck? Now this, this is madness. Europeans have been trying to get out from under the US boot for a long time. They despise us and have little to say in our favor. They tell us how evil and wrong we are all the time. I doubt I'll finish the rest of this piece because the author is clearly in la-la land.

Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-09-12 15:01|| 2022-09-12 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I doubt I'll finish the rest of this piece

Hoping.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-12 17:03|| 2022-09-12 17:03|| Front Page Top

#6 You should read the piece. It's not all wrong. Absolute Denial over a little dissonance is what caused all this mess.

Especially the part about what wokeness and the afromarxist creed is leading.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-12 19:38|| 2022-09-12 19:38|| Front Page Top

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