About that video from Arnold Schwarzenegger:

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30. Well done, B F. I wish we knew much more of the migrations across the steppes of central Asia.

I'm sure their stories are every bit as compelling as our 20th century perspective. We only get the crests of the wave. Magars, Teutons, Visigoths, Huns, Vandals, Burgundians. Classical invaders were moving to new lands due to population growth in all directions. Modern hordes do, too. Gravitating toward the civilization which is best in dealing with population pressure. Seeking to find a place to eat and live. Feeders feed. It's painfully obvious that incremental success in the ever narrowing "field" of agriculture is killing this planet's ability to support humans hoping to continue living, enthralled with the status quo.

It's been said that Queen Victoria had lavish suppers, nightly. Grand affairs with tastes on the cutting edge of Epicurean technology. I'm glad she did, for it is the memory of those rich, savory, palatial orgies, more real in their digital re-telling, which will need suffice the fantasy of our palate's tasteless progeny.