Apocalpse Now - why Americans have no sense of perspective
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Is it the Puritan heritage, this peculiarly American belief that the Apocalypse is just a round the corner? Remember all those books pre-Y2K, about stocking up? The whole industry has recycled itself and it's now the housing bust. The world as we know it is coming to an end - the world, in this case, being America. It's of a piece with the "Why us? Why are we under attack? It's the end of the world" attitude post September 11, when in fact the US had been exporting funding for terror and training foreigners in terrorist techniques for thirty years. It's no wonder fruitcakes like Henry Cate can sincerely assert that America "rescued" Europe in two world wars. There's just no grip on reality
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It's no wonder fruitcakes like Henry Cate can sincerely assert that America "rescued" Europe in two world wars.
Other than Henry not being a fruitcake, he's at least correct that we did do the two rescues. And be thankful that we didn't fuck that up (like we do so many things with such ease) or you'd likely be speaking German right now. Verstehen sie das, Colonel Klink?
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Other than Henry not being a fruitcake, he's at least correct that we did do the two rescues.
This probably won't come as news to you, Bob, but I've always regarded you as a right-wing fruitcake
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This probably won't come as news to you, Bob, but I've always regarded you as a right-wing fruitcake
I'm not sure if I'll lose sleep tonight over that or not. I'll advise in the morning.
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I'm not sure if I'll lose sleep tonight over that or not. I'll advise in the morning.
My young nieces and nephews invariable sleep well and as we all know, you've never claimed to be a grown-up. I don't think there's a doubt about whether you'll lose any sleep
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I don't think there's a doubt about whether you'll lose any sleep
Come on, Homi, life isn't much fun without a little suspense. :cheers:
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I don't think there's a doubt about whether you'll lose any sleep
Come on, Homi, life isn't much fun without a little suspense
Each to their own perversion, I suppose