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Interesting Times2/15/2018 8:09:57 am PST

re: #123 JordanRules

American exceptionalism bullshit.

Indeed. I posted this article earlier in response to The Ghost of a Flea’s comments, but then I decided it’s as good a time as any to break my “no new LGF pages” streak:

Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse

A part I didn’t excerpt, because there was too much to choose from:

So my last pathology is a predatory society. A predatory society doesn’t just mean oligarchs ripping people off financially. In a truer way, it means people nodding and smiling and going about their everyday business as their neighbours, friends, and colleagues die early deaths in shallow graves. The predator in American society isn’t just its super-rich — but an invisible and insatiable force: the normalization of what in the rest of the world would be seen as shameful, historic, generational moral failures, if not crimes, becoming mere mundane everyday affairs not to be too worried by or troubled about.