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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
Brilliant.  |
Actually I see some wisdom in this.
There is absolutely NOTHING sustainable about current trends in America. We consume way too much and (most importantly) there are too many of us. We either change our lifestyles to something resembling a sustanable existence by hard choices or we are forced to do it by very painful and harsh events (economic collapses/crashes, hyperinflation, runs on banks, etc.) I think these things WILL be seen in America again - soon. Maybe not next month, maybe not even next year, but if there's one thing I'm absolutely, positively convinced of, it's that America is too collectively stupid to think beyond tomorrow night's television programming.
I don't like (nor do I support) government mandates - there's too much regulation and government as it is - but I do support forward thinking. This is something that is HUGELY absent from our "culture" and is all-too-often absent from our government. On the rare occasion when we have the opportunity for it to manifest itself in either, we should perhaps not be so quick to dismiss it out of spite.