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Allan from Fallbrook
ParticipantParamount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.
Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?
These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.
Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.
ParticipantParamount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.
Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?
These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.
Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.
ParticipantParamount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.
Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?
These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.
Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.
ParticipantParamount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.
Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?
These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.
Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.
ParticipantParamount: Amen to that, and well said. Your comments got me to thinking about the interviews with the parents of the Columbine shooters. All were upwardly mobile and upper-middle class and, in each and every instance, both parents worked. Not because they needed to, but because they wanted the BMW and the nice house and all the trappings of “success”.
Problem is, they spent no time with their kids and failed to recognize (in one instance) that their son was building bombs in the basement! How the f**k do you miss that?
These kids were ignored by their parents, who were so completely consumed by the consumer culture that they failed to notice what was happening in their own homes.
Screw the lifestyle. Your family is always more important. And I think, societally speaking, that we’re about to discover that again. Along with our values.
ParticipantDWCAP: Yeah, I see that, too. I think to a certain extent, people do not, under any circumstances, want to accept how truly bad things are right now. Moreover, I think they also want to ignore the signs that indicate things might get far, far worse.
It is definitely a state of denial, and you even see it in some of the postings here on Piggington’s.
But, you can’t convince people of what they don’t wish to believe, so if someone is falling for some Pollyanna Realtor’s view of the world, so be it. It’s their money to lose.
ParticipantDWCAP: Yeah, I see that, too. I think to a certain extent, people do not, under any circumstances, want to accept how truly bad things are right now. Moreover, I think they also want to ignore the signs that indicate things might get far, far worse.
It is definitely a state of denial, and you even see it in some of the postings here on Piggington’s.
But, you can’t convince people of what they don’t wish to believe, so if someone is falling for some Pollyanna Realtor’s view of the world, so be it. It’s their money to lose.
ParticipantDWCAP: Yeah, I see that, too. I think to a certain extent, people do not, under any circumstances, want to accept how truly bad things are right now. Moreover, I think they also want to ignore the signs that indicate things might get far, far worse.
It is definitely a state of denial, and you even see it in some of the postings here on Piggington’s.
But, you can’t convince people of what they don’t wish to believe, so if someone is falling for some Pollyanna Realtor’s view of the world, so be it. It’s their money to lose.
ParticipantDWCAP: Yeah, I see that, too. I think to a certain extent, people do not, under any circumstances, want to accept how truly bad things are right now. Moreover, I think they also want to ignore the signs that indicate things might get far, far worse.
It is definitely a state of denial, and you even see it in some of the postings here on Piggington’s.
But, you can’t convince people of what they don’t wish to believe, so if someone is falling for some Pollyanna Realtor’s view of the world, so be it. It’s their money to lose.
ParticipantDWCAP: Yeah, I see that, too. I think to a certain extent, people do not, under any circumstances, want to accept how truly bad things are right now. Moreover, I think they also want to ignore the signs that indicate things might get far, far worse.
It is definitely a state of denial, and you even see it in some of the postings here on Piggington’s.
But, you can’t convince people of what they don’t wish to believe, so if someone is falling for some Pollyanna Realtor’s view of the world, so be it. It’s their money to lose.
ParticipantArraya: Northern Paraguay, huh? I’d pick Argentina, personally. I’d say Brazil, but I don’t think Bush would be very welcome there.
Aecetia: I think one thing that Obama and JFK share is their oratorical ability. I’ve heard that Obama has spent time studying FDR’s “Fireside Chats” and his speech today riffed on some of FDR’s themes (and JFK’s, too, but retooled for modern realities).
As a conservative Republican, I wish him well and wish him luck. It’s kind of hard to tout my party’s fiscal conservatism when confronted by the profligacy of the Bush era.
ParticipantArraya: Northern Paraguay, huh? I’d pick Argentina, personally. I’d say Brazil, but I don’t think Bush would be very welcome there.
Aecetia: I think one thing that Obama and JFK share is their oratorical ability. I’ve heard that Obama has spent time studying FDR’s “Fireside Chats” and his speech today riffed on some of FDR’s themes (and JFK’s, too, but retooled for modern realities).
As a conservative Republican, I wish him well and wish him luck. It’s kind of hard to tout my party’s fiscal conservatism when confronted by the profligacy of the Bush era.
ParticipantArraya: Northern Paraguay, huh? I’d pick Argentina, personally. I’d say Brazil, but I don’t think Bush would be very welcome there.
Aecetia: I think one thing that Obama and JFK share is their oratorical ability. I’ve heard that Obama has spent time studying FDR’s “Fireside Chats” and his speech today riffed on some of FDR’s themes (and JFK’s, too, but retooled for modern realities).
As a conservative Republican, I wish him well and wish him luck. It’s kind of hard to tout my party’s fiscal conservatism when confronted by the profligacy of the Bush era.
ParticipantArraya: Northern Paraguay, huh? I’d pick Argentina, personally. I’d say Brazil, but I don’t think Bush would be very welcome there.
Aecetia: I think one thing that Obama and JFK share is their oratorical ability. I’ve heard that Obama has spent time studying FDR’s “Fireside Chats” and his speech today riffed on some of FDR’s themes (and JFK’s, too, but retooled for modern realities).
As a conservative Republican, I wish him well and wish him luck. It’s kind of hard to tout my party’s fiscal conservatism when confronted by the profligacy of the Bush era.
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