Are we witnessing the beginning of the end?

[haele]

10. I'm not sure it's an end as in world finality - but it is the final gasps for a change in culture.

There are still enough sane people high up in the military (Oaf-keeper/Air Force Academy brainwashing not withstanding) that the Joint Chiefs and other Security Council staff members would be very hard pressed to allow the current President-elect (or VP-elect) access to the "football" when in the grips of a fit of pique or butt-hurt.

What you're seeing is a large number of people who are culturally agoraphobic. They don't want to go through with the change they're going to have to if the country as a whole is going to survive and potentially, and are kicking and screaming because they want to hang on to what was comfortable and familiar to them - even in the face of the rest of the world leaving them behind.

These people would rather live in a devastated third world country than give up any bit of what they consider control. Unfortunately, these cultural Luddites can't just retreat to some distant frontier and "make their fortunes - or die trying". (They are also too willfully ignorant to realize how many of them would die horribly and young without a modern infrastructure to support them.)

And like a petulant 5-year old who is convinced s/he is the only real thing in the universe, they'd still bitch about how it was all those other people who made them tear down their supporting infrastructure and safety nets, those other people made them poor and took away all their opportunities - while they sat back and acted against their own best interests because they didn't want to share the greater world around them with those other people.

I'd feel sorry for them - if they weren't also intent on murdering their perceived competition and burning down the world around them in spite.

Haele