re: #98 ArchangelMichael

I think there’s another issue to blame for this as well. Americans, and the people of Western Civilization in general have had things really good since the end of WWII. So good that we have to invent problems.

In the US “poor” people almost always have a roof over their head and often they have TVs, Microwave ovens, cars… Some are obese.

We’ve eradicated almost every illness that has plagued mankind for almost all of human history. And the average lifespan has gone from 40+ to 70+. Infant mortality is almost non-existent. Most, but not all, of the big illnesses we have to deal with if not curable are treatable and many are the result of bad lifestyle choices and are therefore avoidable.

When I think I got it bad, I look at this picture of an african village on the wall in the office of one of my coworkers. It straightens my bullshit thinking out really fast.

So we got it very good. People need something to bitch about. Something to worry about. When real problems are few and far between, we invent them.

Now we have a legion of moonbats worrying and/or complaining about everything under the sun: Vaccination, flouridation, vitamin fortification, trans-fats, genetically modified foods, DDT, carbon dioxide, artificial sweeteners, circumcision, carbohydrates… the list goes on and on.

I wish I was born in some future time where interstellar travel was feasible and I could pack-up and go start an Anti-idiotarian colony. Moonbats need not apply.

First, YES! “The perfect is the enemy of the good”, as Patton would say.
Second, if interstellar travel were feasible, why start a colony at all? Why not just wander the stars away from the insanities of home?