Posted on 05/05/2025 8:33:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This is a long article, but VERY interesting. I hope you will read the whole thing. Two videos are in the article at the source and they are very good too.
Somebody has got way too much time on her hands.
2nd World Relegation - bump for later...
Are there no capital letters in the second world?
When the term “Third World” was coined, the First World was the developed capitalist countries and the Second World was the Communist countries (or maybe just the more economically developed ones like Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries).
“One world is enough, for all of us!”
I don't know. Maybe the author likes the style of e. e. cummings. Or maybe it is something with cats not having opposable thumbs.
If that map of the world had been done in 1950, the number for Africa would have been 9. Africa has doubled its share of the world’s population in the last 75 years.
With all of the aid from all over the world they don't need to work much, and they find other things to do.
Ditto
It’s long and I need time to read it.
You have been warned.
Just curious, how did a dead corpse get on a NY subway train?
Agree.
I do, sadly, see signs of our America slipping into the 2nd world situation the author describes.
I remember a time 60 years ago when we (possibly naively) felt the world would be getting better over time. American values of honesty, fair play, and democracy would expand into the deep dark reaches of the third world. Lifting them up.
Instead, we’ve allowed unfettered importing of those people with those 3rd world habits and values to NOT integrate into our society.
As I approach my 70th birthday I think I will be gone before it reaches critical mass. Still, I weep for what I see coming and for what we’ve lost.
He died on the train. It seems no one helped him or called for an ambulance.
Or the style of archy the cockroach, who couldn't use the shift key on Don Marquis's typewriter.
It is interesting, thank you for posting.
I once went (15+ years ago) to Chile and saw a generally high trust society where people give correct change, honest answers, and don’t try to rip you off. A bus ride across the Andes and you can find a place where many seemed to have their hand out and make attempts at trickery. I did find some helpful people there also.
An amazing perspective of what lies in store for America.
Might explain why most do not want to admit Puerto Rico as a state.
I agree. Too many professional grifters. They do not belong in a high-trust society unless they give up their low-trust ways.
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