“In a free society that’s consensual and capitalist, the combination of enormous material bounty and personal freedom can take away a sense of strife, a sense of challenge, a sense of sacrifice. And that we all, sort of, end up like lotus-eaters, because the economy is so [strong] … especially in the post-industrial society.”
The poorest are the most likely to obese and have smart phones. We haven’t had even 65% eligible voter turnout for even presidential elections for 100+ years, most of the time it has been way less. There was no organized violence or even substantial non-violent civil disruption when legal murder of unborn people was imposed on all 50 states in 1973 and the WWII generation was still fairly active. All I see is a country being far, far down a cultural slope and not realizing it until it was probably too late to do anything about.
Freegards
When we see FBI agents acting dishonorably, for example, we want to think it’s an aberration; but then we realize these people are a microcosm of our “educated” society, and it’s chilling. It’s the blind, being put at the head of the line, to lead the rest of us. LORD have mercy on us.