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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (535338)	12/9/2009 8:29:00 AM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1578260

lol Always a hoot to hear one of you morons whining about another's "lack of gravitas"... J.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (535338)	12/9/2009 11:42:49 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578260

"paradigm that will take us back to the Dark Ages....." Why do people make such flawed predictions. Society wont go back to anything, not the 1950s, the Roaring 20's, the Dark Ages, the Hippy era or anything else. It will go forward and as it does, we may see further degradation of culture. The paradigm that is driving the disintegration of economic strength, loss of trust, lack of unity or any devotion to cause, crumbling communities and culture is not political it is petty bickering, divisiveness, and unconstructive extremist agendas. Societal members are not taking measures against the corrupting influences that persist and are worsening, they are bowing to elite authorities who manipulate the system for self serving purposes, expecting miracles. But the facts on the ground looks less than miraculous and paints a bleak picture... We are divorcing at a rate that leaves a million new children per year suffering in the wake of devastating family breakups. Breakups that leave once productive adults bankrupt and despondent. The workforce and network who built and maintained strong communities all these years has lost interest. We live in the extremist mindset of 'nothing can be right when everybody is wrong so lets just pick a side and join in the fight toward mutual destruction.' Material conditions are worsening as lower classes complain the middle and upper classes aren't doing enough to provide for their welfare, while the middle and upper classes are too busy bailing out their own sinking life rafts to listen. A country that can't be beaten on a battlefield is disintegrating from within. It's people are more concerned about Tiger Woods' reputation than serious issues like the 200million orphans in the world. A professor in Russia (Igor Panarin) has forcasted the dismantling of America possibly as early as 2010 and the disintegration of our culture. He's even designed a map... "He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along ethnic lines, and foreign powers will move in." online.wsj.com