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Latest iteration of Chicken Little...

posted 17 years ago by tommythegun
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I wonder what it is in the human psyche that demands that some people must perennially be predicting "the end of the world as we know it" (TM).

Furthermore, if it really is the case that we're headed to this big collapse, well, might as well live it up now and buy that Hummer! No sense getting in the bread line too early.

Here's a good one from Michael Crichton's "Do Aliens Cause Global Warming?" speech:

"Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the *beep* Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? "

[–] strawdawg 17 years ago

I take it you don't have children tommythegun. Either that or you don't give a sh!t about them. What kind of message is that to give them. Don't look back at where we went wrong and try to correct our mistakes of the past. There can definately be a better future. We COULD leave this planet in a better state than we recieved it if we tried just a little. But it's not so easy with so many people who have the same thoughts as you.

I wonder what it is in the human psyche that demands that so many people just don't give a damn.

I for one will be proud to tell my children and grandchildren that I did everything I could to make their world better.

give me a stage where this bull here can rage and though I can fight I'd much rather recite.

[–] gnome-5 15 years ago

Okay, it's been about two years since the OP. I wonder if your perspective has changed at all. Has the collapse of the world financial system brought you any closer to understanding the problems we face? Or are you still "living it up"?

[–] rgcustomer 13 years ago

No response. Maybe the computer was taken/abandoned in bankruptcy.

[–] gnome-5 13 years ago

Entirely possible.