I appreciate the internet and never would have discovered some profound and influential thinkers without it, such as Prof. Cole. However, as President Trump might say, there is plenty of blame to go around, "on many sides, on many sides." Maybe the first wave of users were blind to the danger, but no one can claim ignorance today. I'd rather have my organs harvested than sign up for Facebook. Online personality tests? I didn't even realize until today that was the genesis of the plot. Actually, I can now narrow down the list of people to blame to only include those who filled out an online personality profile.
In a way, we should be grateful for such inept and corrupt rulers. There are so many signs this empire is winding down. Just focusing on the obvious, we have an intellectually incapacitated leader surrounded by transparently corrupt neophytes randomly imported from his family and former TV show. Trump’s child/lizard-like mind, along with the inter-dimensional chess game of the various power factions emerging from the, “Deep,” shadows into the open reminds me vaguely of aspects of the Austrian, Prussian, and British empires.
In the past, you’d occasionally get an emperor plagued by developmental disabilities, behavioral disorders, or neurological complications from venereal disease. This rotten core can become the nexus of decay. Surrounded by greedy regents and ministers who hold conflicting agendas, the lack of a central vision leads to fiscal calamities, trade disputes, open conflict among bureaucratic power bases, and disastrous military decisions. Anyway, the good news is that those periods often led to really radical change. I wish Kushner was vice president.
Still, entertaining as it is, Kushner’s dénouement will be pretty well eclipsed by WWIII.
Queen Elizabeth has been friendly enough to party with Syria's Assad, Congo's Mobutu, Zimbabwe's Mugabe, Uganda's Museveni (ultra-homophobic), and the slave-holding Sultan of Brunei. The Brits' hands are as stained with blood as any American's. Trump is pretty crass, but certainly not the bottom of the barrel.
I appreciate the internet and never would have discovered some profound and influential thinkers without it, such as Prof. Cole. However, as President Trump might say, there is plenty of blame to go around, "on many sides, on many sides." Maybe the first wave of users were blind to the danger, but no one can claim ignorance today. I'd rather have my organs harvested than sign up for Facebook. Online personality tests? I didn't even realize until today that was the genesis of the plot. Actually, I can now narrow down the list of people to blame to only include those who filled out an online personality profile.
In a way, we should be grateful for such inept and corrupt rulers. There are so many signs this empire is winding down. Just focusing on the obvious, we have an intellectually incapacitated leader surrounded by transparently corrupt neophytes randomly imported from his family and former TV show. Trump’s child/lizard-like mind, along with the inter-dimensional chess game of the various power factions emerging from the, “Deep,” shadows into the open reminds me vaguely of aspects of the Austrian, Prussian, and British empires.
In the past, you’d occasionally get an emperor plagued by developmental disabilities, behavioral disorders, or neurological complications from venereal disease. This rotten core can become the nexus of decay. Surrounded by greedy regents and ministers who hold conflicting agendas, the lack of a central vision leads to fiscal calamities, trade disputes, open conflict among bureaucratic power bases, and disastrous military decisions. Anyway, the good news is that those periods often led to really radical change. I wish Kushner was vice president.
Still, entertaining as it is, Kushner’s dénouement will be pretty well eclipsed by WWIII.
This is one of those things where the people who see it, see it clearly and the people who don’t see it cannot be reasoned with.
Queen Elizabeth has been friendly enough to party with Syria's Assad, Congo's Mobutu, Zimbabwe's Mugabe, Uganda's Museveni (ultra-homophobic), and the slave-holding Sultan of Brunei. The Brits' hands are as stained with blood as any American's. Trump is pretty crass, but certainly not the bottom of the barrel.