Posted on 05/16/2024 6:17:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I bet that none of the students even had their emotional support pets with them as they graduated.
Because they turned their backs on God?
Hmmm...
“safety, health, wealth”
What matters is the ratio of income vs. essential expenses of individuals.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Whenever anyone says they’d like to live in the past somewhere I always say two words: Modern Dentistry
The free market, guided by the rational self-interest of individuals and businesses, is well-equipped to find solutions to problems like climate change, inequality, and technological disruption. As long as we maintain a system of economic freedom, property rights, and limited government interference, I believe we can be cautiously optimistic about the future. The creative power of the free market, combined with human ingenuity and entrepreneurship, will allow us to overcome the challenges we face.
But now the “free market” makes up problems for them to solve to make money. Climate Change is a perfect example of this.
America’s Fuzzy Muzzie, FREE RIDE, deadbeat class of ‘24. The Domestic Illegal Alien Fuzzy Muzzie Jew Hater Class.
I blame Socialist Democrats, Deep State, Brandon, 0bama and the feckless band of Quisling ‘republicans’ currently in charge for the state of the world these days.
That said, there are still more good, successful, not nuts ‘kids’ out there - we’ve got a boatload of them in our family; employed, patriotic, contributing members of society.
I know we’re not the only family with decent offspring - my neighbor kids are ALL delightful, polite, respectful and helpful. :)
In 1975, new pickup trucks were cheap compared to 2024.
I have an ad someplace for a new 1973 ‘townhouse’ in Fairfax County, Virginia that was on sale for about $33,000.
The disease is cultural.
Human beings were meant to suffer a little bit of hardship. Work! Make things.... fix things.... gather/hunt things....
...and if they do all that, and do it well enough to keep their family and friends (or tribe as it were), they will probably experience a sense of worth and well-being (I’ll refrain from using the loaded pie-in-the-sky word ‘happiness’).
I am not indicting civilization, or western civilization in general. I don’t think we need to go back to being cavemen. I agree with the article and have said something very similar myself previously, about most people in our culture living a more luxurious life than royalty did several century ago. At least in terms of physical health, that is nothing to complain about. But in terms of psychological health, the way we live is a big problem, and the more urban your environment, the less you have to do for yourself. The city and the state is the modern Feudal lord. If you have a purpose or career at all, you likely specialize in one thing (secretly hate it), take a cab home, and if anything in your apartment is broke, you call someone. Then you bury yourself in your phone in tiktok or some game, or your binge on netflix until morning and do it again on limited levels of sleep.
The building code for Florida was decades ago a small book.
Nowadays it would cost over $1,000 to buy the building code books.
The quality of tomatoes 1960s vs. 2024?
The quality of spaghetti sauce 2000 vs. 2024?
Because they are also barraged 24/7/365 with the most sophisticated propoganda the world has ever seen.
vs.
The computing power on a teenager's iPhone in 2024.
America has become a nation who’s sole focus is race and diversity. The greatest country in the world spends all it’s time, resources, and energy focusing on race. Discussing race. Investigating alleged racist incidents. Studying why people are ‘racist’. It’s all so insane.
What a missed opportunity for humanity. The strongest, wealthiest, greatest country in the world could have accomplished so much. But instead, it chose obsession with diversity as it’s sole focus. It will waste all of these resources with nothing to show for it. Except diversity.
And to think they even need emotional support pets. What a bunch of crybabies.
That’s it, right there.
Diversity is like buying an expensive “surprise” box. Upon opening it you find it contains a bunch of fetid garbage.
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