"Americans appear to be bored by policy, titillated by private peccadilloes." Appear, yes, but there is a level of deliberateness involved when that's the only available story on the mainstream news reaching the majority. I think that the real people titillated by this garbage are the politicians and elites who revel in rubbing each others noses in their various shinanigans. Basically, I think its a kind of game that billionaire media moguls play with each other and the politicians, that serves the purpose of presenting some form of false accountability for their actions, thereby placating some percentage of the populace who are unable or unwilling to examine these issues more in depth.
If the date chosen for the trial doesn't paint a vivid picture of the mentality of the 'establishment', then I don't know what does. One might almost postulate that there must be some degree of vindictiveness at work here, some twisted form of 'generational memory' at play. You can't help but wonder...
Future generations in Abu Dhabi and the surrounding Arab states will burn effigies of these idiots for centuries to come, because of their insistence in pissing away their vast wealth on frivolous ventures such as these. That is, if there's anyone left in those areas after the inundation that will come from a 2 m minimum sea level rise or the ridiculous average temperatures... More than likely it'll be examples in future history books of the catastrophic myopia of humanity leading up to the 'great collapse' (or whatever it gets called in a century or two).
"Americans appear to be bored by policy, titillated by private peccadilloes." Appear, yes, but there is a level of deliberateness involved when that's the only available story on the mainstream news reaching the majority. I think that the real people titillated by this garbage are the politicians and elites who revel in rubbing each others noses in their various shinanigans. Basically, I think its a kind of game that billionaire media moguls play with each other and the politicians, that serves the purpose of presenting some form of false accountability for their actions, thereby placating some percentage of the populace who are unable or unwilling to examine these issues more in depth.
If the date chosen for the trial doesn't paint a vivid picture of the mentality of the 'establishment', then I don't know what does. One might almost postulate that there must be some degree of vindictiveness at work here, some twisted form of 'generational memory' at play. You can't help but wonder...
Future generations in Abu Dhabi and the surrounding Arab states will burn effigies of these idiots for centuries to come, because of their insistence in pissing away their vast wealth on frivolous ventures such as these. That is, if there's anyone left in those areas after the inundation that will come from a 2 m minimum sea level rise or the ridiculous average temperatures... More than likely it'll be examples in future history books of the catastrophic myopia of humanity leading up to the 'great collapse' (or whatever it gets called in a century or two).