The Decline of a Civilization. What does it look like? Can you describe it, define it?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Please discuss quietly. Thanks.

[ohiosmith]

1. When Baskin Robbins has only 31 flavors.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. damn, its worse than I thought. We're doomed I tell ya. Doomed!

[ohiosmith]

3. It gets worse! No more Extra Crispy KFC!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. egads! I can't exist without my extra crispy. whatever will I do

[ohiosmith]

6. Stock up on corn flakes,......they'll be gone soon as well!

[Bucky]

5. It begins with requests to lower one's tone of voice.

Had Caesar not whispered "et tu, Brute," but rather shouted, "Get that fucking dagger out of me!" we'd all be talking Latin today

It is noise, not refinement, that makes a civilization.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. and so -- it begins -- and then what?

The Ides of March

[Bucky]

8. and then...

the Ides of April.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

9. Your post reminds me of something that Jack London wrote in The Scarlet Plague.

"The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization"

[Tuesday Afternoon]

10. we are sunk. sunk I tells ya!

[whistler162]

11. One word.....

Cleveland.... 'nough said!

[rug]

12. Turn the volume down.

[harmonicon]

13. Have you ever seen primetime network television?

That's what it looks like. I'd rather not describe it, and I don't know how to define it, but it's clearly very real.

[lunatica]

14. It's the bubble

When the whole country lives in a self-indulgent bubble the Barbarians easily burst it.

[bluedigger]

15. In non Lounge speak?

A civilization in decline will manifest the rapid loss and/or dispersal of it's population, usually brought on by economic or environmental problems that it fails to solve.

[cliffordu]

16. Stupor Bowl weekend

[MrScorpio]

17. We're living it. nt

[csziggy]

18. Cable channels reality TV

Doomsday preppers, Honey Boo Boo, 'nuff said.

[Boomerproud]

21. Yep. My answer was going to be "Keeping Up With The Kardashians".

I had it on as background noise one Saturday while cleaning my bedroom and I couldn't believe that these cretins haven't been exiled to Siberia.

[femmocrat]

23. Agree.

Television is at its lowest point for sure. So much promise wasted on garbage.

[NoPasaran]

19. Lipsyncing the National Anthem during an important event

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Singer given a pass because "everybody does it".

[datasuspect]

20. when shit sucks

and we run out of french fries and burrito coverins

[Manifestor_of_Light]

22. Watch the movie "Idiocracy".

It's almost a documentary. Anyone who uses proper grammar (Luke Wilson) is called "queer".



There is trash in the streets, slums everywhere, everything is sexualized, and the big TV show is "Ow, my Balls!" which is basically America's stupidest Fucking Videos.

[MiddleFingerMom]

26. I used to shush everybody when "Ow, My Balls!!!" was starting.

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"QUIET, EVEERYBODY... 'MY STORIES' ARE COMING ON!!!"
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[struggle4progress]

24. Dunno. But I heard Rome fell cuz everybody spent too much time online

[SQUEE]

29. I heard it was the plastic containers in the microwave..

which is oddly correlated with the lead plumbing in Rome being a factor to it's downfall.

[Initech]

25. Two terms of George W. Bush.

[Jamaal510]

27. YouTube and Yahoo comments sections.

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. 500 channels and nothing to watch.

[hobbit709]

30. when there's nothing but "Reality" shows on TV.

[mikeytherat]

31. The Kardashians

mikey_the_rat

[Brigid]

32. Mitt Romney running for president.