The Whole World is Changing

[Allan from Fallbrook]

TexasLine: Actually, I do think you’re onto something here.

For the last generation or two, we’ve grown accustomed to cheap food, fuel and money and have built an unsustainable societal and business model around it.

We’ve gotten used to a unipolar world in the last twenty years and, like Rome and Great Britain, have grown complacent, lazy and morally weak.

As a country we’ve come to abhor hard choices and are unwilling to recognize that the cost of our lifestyle has grown exponentially more expensive, in terms of health care (due to poor lifestyle choices like all that cheap, commodified McDonalds food), resource extraction (fiscally ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan), and business/finance (attempting to sustain wealth generation with a depleted manufacturing base and acting as though pushing pieces of paper around or selling each other overpriced houses is somehow actual work).

Nope, I think you’re right. There is a seismic change taking place and, even if you can’t see it, you can feel it coming.

[Arraya]

[quote=TexasLine]My attempt at philosophy drew little attention from the gallery.

I thought about that mid-life crisis thingy…still thinking about that.

I didn’t mean “change” like, from one season to the next kinda “change”. It seems to me,…

…a “fall of the Roman Empire” kind of change. A change of ideals and ideology….on a global scale

…but maybe the sky is just blue and maybe it always will be.?

Never mind…carry on[/quote]

No, you’re quite right Texas. And you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are at the onset of a macro socio-evolutionary event. It seems we are going into a transitional phase on par with transitioning from when we changed from being hunter/gather’s to agriculturists only on a much faster time-scale. Like from thousands of years to a few decades or shorter.

[Arraya]

[quote=TexasLine]My attempt at philosophy drew little attention from the gallery.

I thought about that mid-life crisis thingy…still thinking about that.

I didn’t mean “change” like, from one season to the next kinda “change”. It seems to me,…

…a “fall of the Roman Empire” kind of change. A change of ideals and ideology….on a global scale

…but maybe the sky is just blue and maybe it always will be.?

Never mind…carry on[/quote]

No, you’re quite right Texas. And you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are at the onset of a macro socio-evolutionary event. It seems we are going into a transitional phase on par with transitioning from when we changed from being hunter/gather’s to agriculturists only on a much faster time-scale. Like from thousands of years to a few decades or shorter.

[Arraya]

[quote=TexasLine]My attempt at philosophy drew little attention from the gallery.

I thought about that mid-life crisis thingy…still thinking about that.

I didn’t mean “change” like, from one season to the next kinda “change”. It seems to me,…

…a “fall of the Roman Empire” kind of change. A change of ideals and ideology….on a global scale

…but maybe the sky is just blue and maybe it always will be.?

Never mind…carry on[/quote]

No, you’re quite right Texas. And you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are at the onset of a macro socio-evolutionary event. It seems we are going into a transitional phase on par with transitioning from when we changed from being hunter/gather’s to agriculturists only on a much faster time-scale. Like from thousands of years to a few decades or shorter.

[Arraya]

[quote=TexasLine]My attempt at philosophy drew little attention from the gallery.

I thought about that mid-life crisis thingy…still thinking about that.

I didn’t mean “change” like, from one season to the next kinda “change”. It seems to me,…

…a “fall of the Roman Empire” kind of change. A change of ideals and ideology….on a global scale

…but maybe the sky is just blue and maybe it always will be.?

Never mind…carry on[/quote]

No, you’re quite right Texas. And you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are at the onset of a macro socio-evolutionary event. It seems we are going into a transitional phase on par with transitioning from when we changed from being hunter/gather’s to agriculturists only on a much faster time-scale. Like from thousands of years to a few decades or shorter.

[Arraya]

[quote=TexasLine]My attempt at philosophy drew little attention from the gallery.

I thought about that mid-life crisis thingy…still thinking about that.

I didn’t mean “change” like, from one season to the next kinda “change”. It seems to me,…

…a “fall of the Roman Empire” kind of change. A change of ideals and ideology….on a global scale

…but maybe the sky is just blue and maybe it always will be.?

Never mind…carry on[/quote]

No, you’re quite right Texas. And you ain’t seen nothing yet. We are at the onset of a macro socio-evolutionary event. It seems we are going into a transitional phase on par with transitioning from when we changed from being hunter/gather’s to agriculturists only on a much faster time-scale. Like from thousands of years to a few decades or shorter.

[andymajumder]

Definitely can feel it….Obama gang has become more emboldened having passed the health care bill, more bailout programs being planned everyday. Probably unemployment benefits will be extended even longer and looks like those unemployed do not have to pay their mortages anymore. The incentive to work hard or try your utmost to find a job is not there anymore…it used to be you were forced to downsize if you lost your job, that doesn’t apply anymore. Hence, the incentive to save when you do have a good job is also being reduced. Cal state – probably bankrupt in real terms – announces more tax incentives for home buying…while cutting education budget, and every other thing. I thing we as a nationa have already accepted that we will not pay down our national debt anyway…so lets just spend as much we can.

[andymajumder]

Definitely can feel it….Obama gang has become more emboldened having passed the health care bill, more bailout programs being planned everyday. Probably unemployment benefits will be extended even longer and looks like those unemployed do not have to pay their mortages anymore. The incentive to work hard or try your utmost to find a job is not there anymore…it used to be you were forced to downsize if you lost your job, that doesn’t apply anymore. Hence, the incentive to save when you do have a good job is also being reduced. Cal state – probably bankrupt in real terms – announces more tax incentives for home buying…while cutting education budget, and every other thing. I thing we as a nationa have already accepted that we will not pay down our national debt anyway…so lets just spend as much we can.

[andymajumder]

Definitely can feel it….Obama gang has become more emboldened having passed the health care bill, more bailout programs being planned everyday. Probably unemployment benefits will be extended even longer and looks like those unemployed do not have to pay their mortages anymore. The incentive to work hard or try your utmost to find a job is not there anymore…it used to be you were forced to downsize if you lost your job, that doesn’t apply anymore. Hence, the incentive to save when you do have a good job is also being reduced. Cal state – probably bankrupt in real terms – announces more tax incentives for home buying…while cutting education budget, and every other thing. I thing we as a nationa have already accepted that we will not pay down our national debt anyway…so lets just spend as much we can.

[andymajumder]

Definitely can feel it….Obama gang has become more emboldened having passed the health care bill, more bailout programs being planned everyday. Probably unemployment benefits will be extended even longer and looks like those unemployed do not have to pay their mortages anymore. The incentive to work hard or try your utmost to find a job is not there anymore…it used to be you were forced to downsize if you lost your job, that doesn’t apply anymore. Hence, the incentive to save when you do have a good job is also being reduced. Cal state – probably bankrupt in real terms – announces more tax incentives for home buying…while cutting education budget, and every other thing. I thing we as a nationa have already accepted that we will not pay down our national debt anyway…so lets just spend as much we can.

[andymajumder]

Definitely can feel it….Obama gang has become more emboldened having passed the health care bill, more bailout programs being planned everyday. Probably unemployment benefits will be extended even longer and looks like those unemployed do not have to pay their mortages anymore. The incentive to work hard or try your utmost to find a job is not there anymore…it used to be you were forced to downsize if you lost your job, that doesn’t apply anymore. Hence, the incentive to save when you do have a good job is also being reduced. Cal state – probably bankrupt in real terms – announces more tax incentives for home buying…while cutting education budget, and every other thing. I thing we as a nationa have already accepted that we will not pay down our national debt anyway…so lets just spend as much we can.

[werewolf34]

FYI there are no more conservatives (in the fiscal sense). Liberal have very little to do with the breakaway economy b/c they don’t tend to be rich and run companies. Thanks for playing

Just pols stealing for the right and the left.

[werewolf34]

FYI there are no more conservatives (in the fiscal sense). Liberal have very little to do with the breakaway economy b/c they don’t tend to be rich and run companies. Thanks for playing

Just pols stealing for the right and the left.

[werewolf34]

FYI there are no more conservatives (in the fiscal sense). Liberal have very little to do with the breakaway economy b/c they don’t tend to be rich and run companies. Thanks for playing

Just pols stealing for the right and the left.

[werewolf34]

FYI there are no more conservatives (in the fiscal sense). Liberal have very little to do with the breakaway economy b/c they don’t tend to be rich and run companies. Thanks for playing

Just pols stealing for the right and the left.

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