Hemingway's words seem applicable today.

[kairos12]

He was asked, "How did you go bankrupt?"

Hemingway, "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."

With the Rethug plan for the last 40 years to redistrict, suppress the vote, and pack the courts, he's answer would fit if the question is "How did you lose your democracy?"

[barbtries]

1. could also be what happens to the human race.

how does it end? gradually, then suddenly. I really did not expect that I would be around for any part of that.

[CrispyQ]

2. Ditto on your last sentence.

I remember telling my husband back in the 90s, "We're going to exit this planet just in time." Oops. Not quite.

[barbtries]

3. i actually believed

that humans would go on for at least another million years. how naive.