So here we are, 100 years later, and it’s happening. Again. Or is that “still?”
We didn’t understand what happened last time the world decided to blow itself up — and we aren’t seeing it now. Depending on my mood, I blame it on poor education, international lack of honesty about how great nations became “great” nations. And, of course, greed.
God is dead and greed rules us. When saving a few pennies is, to a corporation, worth destroying a family’s livelihood and future, the world will continue to be a toxic muck.
So here we are again. Or, as I said — still here because maybe we never really left.
Lying to the public and each other with a determined willingly to believe the unbelievable because the lies make us feel better. Or less bad. Whichever.
Do we have to destroy ourselves before we look at our culture, our society, our world, and say “This is not the way? Let’s be better.” We need to be a lot better because there’s an awful lot to do. We better get to it.
Categories: Education, good-and-evil, History, Lies - lying - liars, Marilyn Armstrong
It’s true. And I agree. The world is led by greed. The almighty $ and making more of it at everyone’s expense.It’s tragic and deplorable.
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And it is its own self-destruction.
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Yes, it is. People are being led around like a bull with a ring in their noses and don’t see or don’t want to see the big picture and what they’re responsible for.
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God isn’t dead, but I think He’s disgusted that we are doing the same old sh*t on a different day. He may have turned His back. I liked this post a great deal. It reassures me that I’m not being paranoid when I see such horror coming straight at us and nobody is even trying to jump out of the way. And the song “We Didn’t Start The Fire” that you shared recently is appropriate to the situation, isn’t it?
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I get the feeling that everything is coming to a head….very uneasy about this.
Leslie
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I don’t know exactly what KIND of head, either.
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it feels ominous….
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”by a downright moron.” How could he have possibly known?!
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Smart guy.
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ahead of his time
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In many ways. People dismissed him as snarky … but he turned out to be right. He and Samuel Clemens. The two of them seemed to know.
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I think Mencken’s quote is one of the most prescient I’ve ever read. I wrote about it here (https://fivedotoh.com/2017/10/21/how-did-he-know-what-to-expect/) and keep wondering how he could possibly have predicted Donald Trump (the moron currently adorning the White House) almost 100 years ago.
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He was a journalist, sardonic, smart — and an historian. He said a lot more, too, though that particular one rings painfully true. He had the “Monkey Trial” and Teapot Dome” scandals to work with. We’ve got the moron.
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I guess we have all been on this path longer than we thought but finally, you have the downright moron.
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We have — in this country — ALWAYS been on this road. And for every country where white people came and destroyed the natives, we’ve ALL be on this path.
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Chilling.
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When you consider Mencken wrote that in 1920, yeah. I guess this isn’t as “new” as we thought.
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