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August 28, 2014
How did we get here? Through vanity, my friend, vanity. In a fit of outrageous extravagance a vainglorious elite bought a fraud they couldn’t afford.
It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning, but after a bit the carpet ends. A little farther on there are only flagstones, and a little farther on still these break beneath your feet. Look back over the last five years. … historians a thousand years hence will still be baffled by the mystery of our affairs. They will never understand how it was that a victorious nation, with everything in hand, suffered themselves to be brought low, and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory—gone with the wind!Belmont Club ｻ Don't Worry, Be Happy
Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 28, 2014 11:01 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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If anyone in that room had a bit of sense, they would have grabbed that club and taken three or four mulligans on him.
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at August 29, 2014 4:18 AM
Now don't go all commie on me and believe in New Capitalist Man. I thought you were religious? Original sin and all that.
It's the whole point - that we are imperfect, stupid, drunken, vain, horny, lazy, undisciplined, mostly worthless, with a strong taste for gin, bad women and trouble. Add on hairless monkeys if you roll evolutionwards.
We will always either improve on what our forefathers leave us, or louse it up, or both, forever and ever, amen.
The joy and pain are in the fight, not winning it, which is impossible.
Posted by: Fred Z at August 29, 2014 7:44 AM
The author is being a little short sighted....
For me the world turned the day I heard, "Read my lips, No New Taxes."
....and it's been down hill at an ever increasing rate, since.
I'm not surprised, shocked, or disappointed any more. Just sad. Very, very sad.
Posted by: ghostsniper at August 29, 2014 2:45 PM