I don't want this to get buried....

[LeftyFingerPop]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7506305#7509486

You see, there is a reason I post insane threads. It is because I am pissed off beyond belief, and I really don't have much hope for this country. So, I come in here and post photoshops of Carrot Top and
Danny Bonaduce.

But I have the same fears and concerns that you do.

I am passionate about the same things you are.

But I have to tell you...if I didn't ACT insane, I think I would probably BE insane.

[DarkTirade]

1. That's pretty much my excuse for my bad jokes and smart-assness

and general refusal to take things seriously... because sometimes humor is the best defense against adapting to an insane world.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. This is OUR country that got fucked over....

YOUR country

MY country

OUR beautiful country.

I've never taken kindly to having something of mine destroyed.

I'm sure you have not either. :pals:

[DarkTirade]

3. It's not even the country that I care about...

it's the people. People are getting fucked over left and right. In big ways, in little ways... the entire infrastructure is putting more and more pressure on the people who have the least support... and then the people on top are turning around and cutting out what little support those people on the bottom have.

For their own sake, you'd think the people on the top wouldn't cut out the very things supporting everything that they stand on. But they keep greedily sawing away.

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. They will take...

until there is nothing left to take.

[DarkTirade]

5. I'm just afraid that they will take

until we have our own little French revolution and they all lose their heads.

And as much as I want change, I don't want it to come about by bloody revolution.

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. I think there is too much apathy in this country for that...

We here at DU are a unique group. Sure, there are plenty out there like us, but it seems that there are so many in this country who have been conditioned to accept the status quo and accept virtually everything that is handed down to them.

And those are the people who will be standing in the cold, naked, saying...wha.....wha....what happened?

[DarkTirade]

8. Everyone has a breaking point.

Eventually the people will reach theirs.

[LeftyFingerPop]

10. We can only hope.

But my sense is that right now, even given *'s current approval rating, we are still in the minority. Things are going to have to get really bad before everyone wakes up. Joe Middle Manager (and his 2.5 kids) is going to have to miss a few weeks of meals, lose his house, his pension, and his dog before he wakes up.

Unfortunately, we are headed that way.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

17. Our?

Substituting "planet" for "country" would seem apropos would it not?

[caty]

6. Sometimes I think they are

trying to get rid of all countries and make each country a state in these unions they are enabling. It would explain a lot of what they are doing. I think we've been sold out.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. Well you may be on to something....

There is certainly something steering this ship, some grand plan.

And I believe we have been sold out also.

[caty]

11. Think about the money.

The Euro for example. Countries who gave up their money to start using the Euro, gave up part of the history and culture that was represented in their country's money. Now, I'm hearing that we might give up our money for the Amero--money that would be the same in Canada, the US, and Mexico. And it seems as though we, the people have nothing to say about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hiPrsc9g98

[LeftyFingerPop]

13. Thank you for the vid...

Sounds very similar to Europe.

I don't like the sound of this...the strength of this currency would be dependent upon a mixture of economies...I am going to research this further. Thank you.

[Fox Mulder]

12. Sometimes the only sane answer to an insane world is insanity.

:)

[LeftyFingerPop]

14. I agree, and so does Uncle Bill...

[BuelahWitch]

15. I loved that show!

But I know what you mean philboy. I've felt hopeless for the better part of the last 3 years.

[Jamastiene]

20. Being considered insane in an insane world actually

means you are sane, right? I have always looked at it that way.

[Forkboy]

16. I'm big on gallows humor.

I can get a little too morbid for some though. But I agree, if I didn't laugh I'd kill (myself...don't worry :) )

[asteroid2003QQ47]

18. "We/us/they?"

The two closing paragraphs at the end of The Human Zoo sum up our situation now:

“The politicians, the administrators and the other super-tribal leaders are good social mathematicians, but this is not enough. In what promises to be the ever more crowded world of the future, they must become good biologists as well, because somewhere in all that mass of wires, cables, plastics, concrete, bricks, metal and glass which they control, is an animal, a human animal, a primitive tribal hunter, masquerading as a civilized, super-tribal citizen and desperately struggling to match his ancient inherited qualities with his extraordinary new situation. If he is given the chance he may yet contrive to turn his human zoo into a magnificent game-park. If he is not, it may proliferate into a gigantic lunatic asylum, like one of the hideously cramped animal menageries of the last century.

For us, the super-tribesmen of the twentieth century, it will be interesting to see what happens. For our children, however, it will be more than merely interesting. By the time they are in charge of the new situation, the human species will no doubt be facing problems of such magnitude that it will be a matter of living or dying.”

Minor alterations side, the end is near, relatively speaking, that is.

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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
--Jules Winnfield

[asteroid2003QQ47]

19. "We/us/they?"

The two closing paragraphs at the end of The Human Zoo sum up our situation now:

“The politicians, the administrators and the other super-tribal leaders are good social mathematicians, but this is not enough. In what promises to be the ever more crowded world of the future, they must become good biologists as well, because somewhere in all that mass of wires, cables, plastics, concrete, bricks, metal and glass which they control, is an animal, a human animal, a primitive tribal hunter, masquerading as a civilized, super-tribal citizen and desperately struggling to match his ancient inherited qualities with his extraordinary new situation. If he is given the chance he may yet contrive to turn his human zoo into a magnificent game-park. If he is not, it may proliferate into a gigantic lunatic asylum, like one of the hideously cramped animal menageries of the last century.

For us, the super-tribesmen of the twentieth century, it will be interesting to see what happens. For our children, however, it will be more than merely interesting. By the time they are in charge of the new situation, the human species will no doubt be facing problems of such magnitude that it will be a matter of living or dying.”

Minor alterations side, the end is near, relatively speaking, that is.

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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.
--Jules Winnfield

[asteroid2003QQ47]

21. Tried 3 0r 4 times to scrub the dupe but...

even though in timely fashion I was not allowed.
I certainly didn't expect it to be a thread killer,
where the hell is everyone?