…and you destroy civilization.
It’s sad that these spoiled children have put themselves so deep into debt for educations that are worthless, both in the marketplace and in understanding how the world works. They rage against the wrong machine.
[Update a couple minutes later]
They’re also not materially poor. But they do suffer from a poverty that is worse in many ways:
These young people also suffer from a vast intellectual and moral poverty. One of the things that shines through when we interview the people taking to the streets is that so many are woefully ignorant, and that they wallow in a sea of relativism that allows for no morality other than that gained by intense navel gazing. They are the antithesis of the original American revolutionaries, whose leaders were men of exceptional erudition and thoughtfulness, and whose followers knew at the very least their Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress. Revolutionaries of old were shaped by philosophy, known science, literature, practical life experience, and a deep sense of morality and justice. Today’s little park piddlers are shaped by an aching sense of unfairness, a terrible fear of human-kind (that would be the AGW shtick), and a morality shaped by Oprah and whichever fabulously rich Hollywood Leftist happens to grab the microphone on any given day.
These self-styled 99%-ers are not poor, not by any known standard, either today or in the history of the world. They are intellectually and emotionally bereft, but otherwise awash in material benefits.
Fortunately, they’re not, as they delude themselves, the 99%. If they were, the Republic would be lost.
They are definitely not the 99%. I enjoyed the story over the weekend from Denver. More people showed up to a “zombie crawl” mall event then “Occupy Denver”. Not just marginally more, but order of magnitude more. So definitively capitalist event (dress up and hang out at the mall) outdrew whatever OWS is meant to be. OWS is at best, the 10% fringe we always knew was there.
But “we are the 10% fringe” doesn’t have the same ring to it. I wonder if they would be put out, if we started referring to them as “the 10%”.
Rush Limbaugh should track down the Dan of “Dan’s Bake Sale” and stage another one just surrounding and overwhelming Occupy Denver.
The founders are dead. The republic was lost a long time ago.
They may be the 10% but they represent a societal laziness that is close to 99%.
People in power are openly talking about suspending elections. Something that didn’t even happen during the civil war!
Laws are made with little or no discussion, massive documentation that nobody reads and they ignore any law they dislike or use selective enforcement.
It amazes me that anyone sees any similarity between today and our foundation. The changes are just below the surface, they are blatantly out there. How can we talk about losing something we lost a long time ago.
The question is can we ever get to something reasonable in the future? With how little support I get for my ownership theme in exploration of unclaimed real estate I really doubt it.
We seem to have unlimited capacity to tolerate the intolerable.