Posted on 03/15/2013 11:33:11 AM PDT by virgil283
"Is America in decline? I’ve been hearing the United States compared to the Roman Empire since around the 1970s, and I’m sure those apocalyptic sentiments were being expressed long before I was born. However, it’s difficult to read and watch all the depressing stuff posted here on PJ Media and elsewhere and not conclude that, this time, it’s on. America’s going Gibbon. Some books propose possible ways to avert this catastrophe. Aaron Clarey’s Enjoy the Decline isn’t one of them. As his subtitle suggests, this book is about “accepting and living with the death of the United States. #1 — Don’t save for retirement #2 — Don’t go to college #3 — Don’t earn more than $15,000 a year #4 — Don’t have children (sort of)....."
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You’re relating creating a human to live a life in a time of perilous turmoil to a race?
—SIGH— Not really OldPossum, just saying that people shouldn’t give up having a family they MAY want because times are hard. Now, you have voluntarily chosen to be without one and that’s fine, but imagine if all people felt the way you did. People have feared for the future forever, but life goes on.
—SIGH—Of course, I knew what you were saying; I just thought that it was an odd way of wording it.
Yes, people have always worried about the future but this time it seems that there is much more of a basis for concern. We are definitely at the beginning of a depression, what with unemployment rates in excess of 15 percent—maybe more. We have never faced government deficits on the order of what is transpiring today. And we all should know that this precedes horribly high inflation rates.
People should worry because things could become horribly worse. It’s just the intervention of government (unemployment insurance, food stamps, etc.) that is temporarily shielding people from the truth of their economic circumstances.
I am particularly thankful that I am not a grandfather with grandchildren facing an economic and political future that could be very difficult to live through.
In summary: we just disagree, Amberdawn.
Yes, we do disagree.
Just finished reading this book.
Will probably read it again and let it all sink in.
I recommend it. It reads much like a FReeper wrote it in some passages. What I got the most from it wasn’t really the specifics on how to prepare as much as the mindset.
If I had to summarize, it would be - look around, see the world as it is, forget about what was or might have been, then put on your big boy (or big girl) pants and deal with it in the best way possible for you. And don’t forget you’re gonna die so you better make the best of your life while you can.
Sometimes we all need to be hit up side the head, and this book did it for me.
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