" I never tire of reminding readers that life is tragic. Individuals
and groups in societies make bad choices or fail to meet a challenge
that history presents. When persons fail, events take over and lead all
persons where events will. Hence, events will take over the election
clown show between an errand boy and a horse's ass. The distracted,
degenerate public of tattooed soccer moms and men wearing baby clothes
have no idea how quickly the supermarket shelves can go empty. The
banking system is headed over Niagara Falls and it will take all our
comforts and conveniences with it as it goes over...." - Kunstler
Monday, August 6, 2012
ETHOS OF THE DAMNED
“I try to think when I go to bed every night, how much good did I do in the world?” he says. During his time on the campaign trail, he told the Milken audience, he caught a glimpse of how some of the 99 percent were living, and it was chilling.
“I went to one living room in Liberty City; she was a single mom, 45 years old, 300 pounds,” he recounted. “All she was talking about was her $646 check which was coming in three days which she needed to buy more food.” This got the crowd’s attention, and the room filled with the sound of harrumphs. But it wasn’t this woman that set Greene’s mind on fire. It was her children. “One had been shot, one was in jail, two had gang problems.” He trailed off. “The role models those kids have—gang members—of course those kids are going to go in the wrong direction.” If the kids were given access to education, he continued, to after-school programs—
“Dream on,” Ferguson drawled in response, and the audience broke out in applause. “Dream. On.”
“If somebody wanted to go after a rich person,” he observes, “they have got their pick of the litter out here.”
"There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us....."
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