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  1. Eddie Cazayoux

    It is not the limitation of food that will bring this country to its knees, it is the degradation of our infrastructure and education system. And the crazies that run this country who look after themselves and the people who put money in their pockets, and not being concerned about the people.

    • Bookscrounger

      There is certainly much truth to that. The sad thing is, there are several scenarios where we run into human resource limitations quickly. If that happens, those with the guns, the anger, and the intolerance take us back to times of great ignorance, and with it, great human suffering and death, something like ‘1984’, or ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’

      I’m laying out all this depressing posts, in hope of proposing a way to look at our past, and come up with strategies that might help us avoid going back to it.

      That, and to explain why we have angry people with guns; but also to explain why we have angry people with lawyers. The left and right are both vulnerable to their own blindnesses and intolerances.

      I am watching the Trump defenders with shock, but the funny thing is that I have been consider exactly those kinds of behaviors for 20 years. It’s just that up until a few months ago, I was looking at them historically, at a remove. It is an irony, and a surprise, to suddenly see the power of the things you have studied, all around you and even among friends.

      It adds urgency to my writing.

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