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"One of the painful aspects of studying great catastrophes of the past is discovering how many times people were preoccupied with trivialities when they were teetering on the edge of doom."

Thomas Sowell always puts things in brilliantly simple and insightful way, but this sentence even more than others just pricked me at my core. It's so lucid I had to pause for a few moments before I could continue reading because a chill ran all the way down my spine.

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One of the painful aspects of studying great catastrophes of the past is discovering how many times people were preoccupied with trivialities when they were teetering on the edge of doom.

When I read that sentence and thought about the leaders of the house & senate , the choices we have left for president, and the traitors we have at State & CIA and the hair stood up on the back of my neck.