WE HAVE RAISED A NATION OF WEEK PATHETIC MORONS. BUT THIS IS NOTHING NEW. WE ARE WITNESSING A PERVASIVE CYCLICAL VISION OF HISTORY. THIS HAS HAPPENED MANY TIMES BEFORE. THE TOUGH HOMBRE AUTHOR G MICHAEL HOPF IN ONE OF HIS HIS NOVELS WROTE " HARD TIMES CREATE STRONG MEN, STRONG MEN CREATE GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES CREATE WEEK MEN AND ULTIMATELY WEAK MEN CREATE HARD TIMES. THIS IS STUNNING TO THINK ABOUT
Ricardo, I endorse your point to the effect that this is cyclical: Bad times produce strong men who create good times. The good times produce weak men, whose weakness creates bad times, and the adversity of these bad times in turn produces strong men.
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU REFER TO IN THE HISTORY OF THE 30'S AND 40'S:
The elites of Western Europe, in the 1930's, were exceptionally coddled, spoiled, rich men. They were, by and large, adherents of what was called the respectable tendency in British politics. The "Respectiable tendency" believed in
A) Being nice to Germany
B) Being harsh to the working class
This was the political outlook of the conservative party of England in the 1930s
They were weak, effete, heterosexual faggots (a tern denoting men who are straight but are as fastidious, bitchy and weak as a stereotypical homosexual) who were weaklings because they were rich spoiled brats.
Their ruinous policies (allowing Nazi Germany to rise up and amass armaments) led to the excruciating bombing suffered by London, Coventry, Rotterdam, etc.
The ashes of the blitz made for the creation of a strong rejuvenated generation which beat the Nazis and created the immense prosperity that we enjoyed from the end of World War Two until the end of the 70s.
Ricardo, your idea is also plainly spoken of at the end of John Steinbeck's "Grapes or Wrath" when "Mama Joad" says that rich men have sons who are no good.
There is so much to this ruling. Your turn of phrase is excellent! You have made me the most well informed Canadian about your legal system. Thanks, Mick...err David! (We were all Mick wannabes LOL).
Paul, thank you for the compliment. Of course, many, many Americans would say that I am not accurately discussing our legal system. They would say that I am poisoning a Canadian's view of things. And in a little while they will rant, "Hang David Gottfried."
THIS WAS BRILLIANT I LOVED IT. MOST AMERICANS ARE COMPLACENT AND DONT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR VOTE THEY TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED. MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR IS ONE OF THEM. I SAW THEM YESTERDAY WHEN I WENT TO PICK UP MY MAIL WE CHATTED FOR A FEW MINUTES AND I BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE OF THE SUPREME COURT AND THEY RESPONDED OH YEAH WE HEARD ABOUT IT BUT WE DONT FOLLOW THAT WE PREFER TO STAY OUT OF POLITICS MAKES OUR HEAD HURT. CAN YOU IMAGINE SUCH IGNORANCE! I THOUGHT THIS IS MY OPPORTUNITY TO ENLIGHTEN THESE POOR MISERABLE FOLKS. SO I WENT ON TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS AND HOW IT WOULD AFFECT SOMANY. I CAN TELL THEY WERE LOST IN THE WEEDS. IT WAS TOO MUCH. SHE WAITED POLITELY TILL I FINISHED MY MONOLOGUE AND SAID WELL IM SURE THERE ARE VERY SMART PEOPLE THAT WILL FIGURE IT ALL OUT AND THEN WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT SAID OH HEY ARE YOU GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE WE LOVE A GOOD GARAGE SALE ITS ALWAYS SO MUCH FUN TO PICK THRU STUFF AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TREASURES YOULL FIND... OMG! PLEASE SHOOT ME THIS WOMAN IS COMPLETELY LOST HOW SHE MANAGES TO FUNCTION ON A DAY TO DAY IS BEYOND ME.
THIS IS MOST OF AMERICA MUCH TO MY DISMAY. WE ARE WITNESSING THE DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. STUDIES SHOW THAT AN EMPIRES SURVIVES ON AVERAGE 250 YEARS; WE ARE AT 246...THE ROMAN EMPIRE BEING THE EXCEPTION WHICH LASTED 500 YEARS (WE ARE NOT ROME; AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS A MYTH)
ONE LAST THING I LOVE YOUR REF TO MAPLE LEAF RAG ONE OF MY FAV PIANO PIECES. I LOVE THE ENERGY OF THE PC FROM THE VERY 1ST NOTE THE FRENETIC RHYTHM IS INTOXICATING...
I am really impressed by your knowledge of Maple Leaf Rag. I too found that piece fantastic and, as I said, it was a seminal development in music history
And I wonder (and pardon me if I sound like a conservative for a moment): Guys like Scott Joplin and George Washington Carver were black American men, born into slavery, who did great, great things (discussed in my essay). And today, in New York City, I see so many black people .leading trashier and trashier lives. As I said, black HIV patients are told to take M and M candies for two weeks, before they take HIV meds, so they will learn how to swallow the pills. I wonder: Is the caliber of mankind going downhill. Are people become more savage, more stupid, more inane. Sometimes I think the problem might be weak, weak teachers who don't have the toughness to scream at the students: You gotta fucking listen to me and learn.
For example, I know a white guy, about my age, whose son did not feel like going to school. He didn't have the balls to make his son go to school. The son stayed home for a couple of months and then was too frightened to leave the house. Now the son is as weak and scared as his eunuchoidal dad.
More people are seeing shrinks and taking pills for em6tional problems and the suicide rate is rising, bed wetting is rising, more and more people are living alone unmarried and unattached. Psychological ailments are legion and mounting. Something is rotten in Denmark.
IM IN COMPLETE AGREEMT WITH YOU ON THIS. FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION GRAPES OF WRATH, I THOUGHT OF THIS AND THE GOOD EARTH AS I WAS WRITTING TO YOU.
WE HAVE RAISED A NATION OF WEEK PATHETIC MORONS. BUT THIS IS NOTHING NEW. WE ARE WITNESSING A PERVASIVE CYCLICAL VISION OF HISTORY. THIS HAS HAPPENED MANY TIMES BEFORE. THE TOUGH HOMBRE AUTHOR G MICHAEL HOPF IN ONE OF HIS HIS NOVELS WROTE " HARD TIMES CREATE STRONG MEN, STRONG MEN CREATE GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES CREATE WEEK MEN AND ULTIMATELY WEAK MEN CREATE HARD TIMES. THIS IS STUNNING TO THINK ABOUT
Ricardo, I endorse your point to the effect that this is cyclical: Bad times produce strong men who create good times. The good times produce weak men, whose weakness creates bad times, and the adversity of these bad times in turn produces strong men.
AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU REFER TO IN THE HISTORY OF THE 30'S AND 40'S:
The elites of Western Europe, in the 1930's, were exceptionally coddled, spoiled, rich men. They were, by and large, adherents of what was called the respectable tendency in British politics. The "Respectiable tendency" believed in
A) Being nice to Germany
B) Being harsh to the working class
This was the political outlook of the conservative party of England in the 1930s
They were weak, effete, heterosexual faggots (a tern denoting men who are straight but are as fastidious, bitchy and weak as a stereotypical homosexual) who were weaklings because they were rich spoiled brats.
Their ruinous policies (allowing Nazi Germany to rise up and amass armaments) led to the excruciating bombing suffered by London, Coventry, Rotterdam, etc.
The ashes of the blitz made for the creation of a strong rejuvenated generation which beat the Nazis and created the immense prosperity that we enjoyed from the end of World War Two until the end of the 70s.
Ricardo, your idea is also plainly spoken of at the end of John Steinbeck's "Grapes or Wrath" when "Mama Joad" says that rich men have sons who are no good.
There is so much to this ruling. Your turn of phrase is excellent! You have made me the most well informed Canadian about your legal system. Thanks, Mick...err David! (We were all Mick wannabes LOL).
Paul, thank you for the compliment. Of course, many, many Americans would say that I am not accurately discussing our legal system. They would say that I am poisoning a Canadian's view of things. And in a little while they will rant, "Hang David Gottfried."
THIS WAS BRILLIANT I LOVED IT. MOST AMERICANS ARE COMPLACENT AND DONT UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR VOTE THEY TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED. MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR IS ONE OF THEM. I SAW THEM YESTERDAY WHEN I WENT TO PICK UP MY MAIL WE CHATTED FOR A FEW MINUTES AND I BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE OF THE SUPREME COURT AND THEY RESPONDED OH YEAH WE HEARD ABOUT IT BUT WE DONT FOLLOW THAT WE PREFER TO STAY OUT OF POLITICS MAKES OUR HEAD HURT. CAN YOU IMAGINE SUCH IGNORANCE! I THOUGHT THIS IS MY OPPORTUNITY TO ENLIGHTEN THESE POOR MISERABLE FOLKS. SO I WENT ON TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAD TRANSPIRED OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS AND HOW IT WOULD AFFECT SOMANY. I CAN TELL THEY WERE LOST IN THE WEEDS. IT WAS TOO MUCH. SHE WAITED POLITELY TILL I FINISHED MY MONOLOGUE AND SAID WELL IM SURE THERE ARE VERY SMART PEOPLE THAT WILL FIGURE IT ALL OUT AND THEN WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT SAID OH HEY ARE YOU GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD GARAGE SALE WE LOVE A GOOD GARAGE SALE ITS ALWAYS SO MUCH FUN TO PICK THRU STUFF AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TREASURES YOULL FIND... OMG! PLEASE SHOOT ME THIS WOMAN IS COMPLETELY LOST HOW SHE MANAGES TO FUNCTION ON A DAY TO DAY IS BEYOND ME.
THIS IS MOST OF AMERICA MUCH TO MY DISMAY. WE ARE WITNESSING THE DEMISE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. STUDIES SHOW THAT AN EMPIRES SURVIVES ON AVERAGE 250 YEARS; WE ARE AT 246...THE ROMAN EMPIRE BEING THE EXCEPTION WHICH LASTED 500 YEARS (WE ARE NOT ROME; AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS A MYTH)
ONE LAST THING I LOVE YOUR REF TO MAPLE LEAF RAG ONE OF MY FAV PIANO PIECES. I LOVE THE ENERGY OF THE PC FROM THE VERY 1ST NOTE THE FRENETIC RHYTHM IS INTOXICATING...
I am really impressed by your knowledge of Maple Leaf Rag. I too found that piece fantastic and, as I said, it was a seminal development in music history
And I wonder (and pardon me if I sound like a conservative for a moment): Guys like Scott Joplin and George Washington Carver were black American men, born into slavery, who did great, great things (discussed in my essay). And today, in New York City, I see so many black people .leading trashier and trashier lives. As I said, black HIV patients are told to take M and M candies for two weeks, before they take HIV meds, so they will learn how to swallow the pills. I wonder: Is the caliber of mankind going downhill. Are people become more savage, more stupid, more inane. Sometimes I think the problem might be weak, weak teachers who don't have the toughness to scream at the students: You gotta fucking listen to me and learn.
For example, I know a white guy, about my age, whose son did not feel like going to school. He didn't have the balls to make his son go to school. The son stayed home for a couple of months and then was too frightened to leave the house. Now the son is as weak and scared as his eunuchoidal dad.
More people are seeing shrinks and taking pills for em6tional problems and the suicide rate is rising, bed wetting is rising, more and more people are living alone unmarried and unattached. Psychological ailments are legion and mounting. Something is rotten in Denmark.