I generally use other people’s soapboxes to vent, after they pick a topic, but I had to bring this one up myself.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-28-voa22.cfm
French President Calls Rioting 'Unacceptable'
Really?? Rioting is “Unacceptable”?? Two nights of unrest, injuring 120 police officers is unacceptable?? Well, at least they have taken 20 people into custody!
I was honestly thinking Sarkozy was going to be different, better in someway than his predecessors. However, the last line in the article, (in reference to the last time this happened, 2005) “but this time police say the youths are better armed and more violent,” makes me wonder if France isn’t going to actually surrender to itself.
-Ribbit
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Yeah, but they've olny burned 500 cars this time - not 5000...
Europe, for all of it's holier than thou ways, is in serious do-do.
Welcome back!
Thank God the Peugeots are safe!
Is it just me, or does it seem we, as a society, are going to hit the "Anasazi" point in our lifetime? By that, I mean, we're going to write off the big cities and go another way?
Just a thought...
You mean the entire western world - collapse of western civilization as a whole? Part of me says no, that people have been claimng the end is nigh since ther have been people.
I do think that we are on a road that is going to mean one helluva big war that will change the whole paradigm. Will it be recognizable to people like you and me, probably not, but then I'm sure two Roman plebs talking about the evolution of society in 470 AD would have though that we were crazy if we went back in time and told them that the Roman Empire in the West would be effectively dead in 474...
All empires fall, all societys have periods of ascendance and regression.
When I look at the tea leaves, I see either more of the same, slightly better, or much, much worse.
I mean right now, we are breeding children who are not allowed to compete (Everybody's a winner! - bullsh-t), who have no sense of right and wrong, who think its bad to be patriotic(or are even against being for anything or a part of anything), who hate going outside, and who have absolutely no concept of anything but instant gratification. Apparently things are worse in Europe.
Which is why, to hedge my bets, I moved to one of the most strategically UNimportant areas of the good ol' US of A. Not saying the feces will hit the air-circulation device, but I know someone writing a book on this very subject - although he's been wirting it for almost 5 years now...
I don’t know if I’m talking about the wholesale fall of western civilization, so much as just the massive paradigm shift you were talking about. I don’t want to believe a war is eminent, but I also don’t like sounding naïve, so there it is. I just feel a certain critical mass is impending, like there is an analog gage in a sensitive part of a nuclear reactor that no one is paying attention to, and the camera is fixed on it in the foreground. There are no lights or sirens, but by the time there are, it may already be too late to correct, which just leaves a bunch of guys in white plastic suits and orange hardhats to scurry-about in soft-focus.
It’s just as you said, that very idea of two Roman plebs having this same discussion, and there may be the slightest whiff in the air that leads to the question being asked. I have to get this quote off my chest before I can continue, “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire…discuss.” I can’t remember what that was from, but funny! Ok, so these two plebs are sitting there thinking, this is allllright. We’re the toughest bunch of badasses in the world! Everyone hates us, but that’s only because we conquered them…losers. And they’ll see, it’ll get better once they have indoor plumbing and a Senate. It doesn’t get better though, that’s it, that’s the apex. From that point on, it’s nothing more than an uncontrolled freefall.
So, in hindsight, perhaps this was a weightier first post than I really should’ve gone after…but hey, if you’re gonna jump, do it with both feet.
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