From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 04/19/2020 03:30 AM, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   > That is where we are today, however most people don't see it, and   
   > therefore I assume most people in the past did see it neither. In that   
   > lies perhaps one of the more important reasons for such collapses. These   
   > people are no longer invested in any sort of wise management of their   
   > society and what makes it work. You can see this in the stock market   
   > trade today. Ordinary people, who don't have much of a clue of what they   
   > are doing there, many of whom seem to make it an important part of their   
   > lives to gamble on the stock market. Their objective is to get rich, by   
   > making others poor who suffer the negative end of their trades. It is not   
   > necessary to give a list of all the entertainment in the current world. We   
   > are at a point that almost everything is about entertainment. Political   
   > responsibility, enforced from the base up, is also out of the window.   
      
   When I was in college I worked summers for the NYS Department of   
   Education. The basement corridors of the Education building were filled   
   with pallets of newspapers awaiting microfilming. I would spend the   
   dinner hour reading them. Right up to the stock market crash in '29 they   
   were filled with rosy predictions and editorials about the fundamentals   
   being sound. My blood runs cold every time I hear that phrase since them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)