Thank you for expressing what is so strongly troubling my soul for my Nation.
The spoiled brats are particularly eager to be “generous” with other people's time, money, talents, and resources while patting themselves on the back for helping themselves. Entitlement Village, built upon a foundation of lies and laziness. Destined to keel over like a Chicom school building in a minor earthquake.
Belshazzar and all his experts, administrators, and fellow travelers couldn't read the writing on the wall because they were of the same mind: ignorant-by-choice, and having no sense of dignity and respect, as they were flippantly using holy, finely crafted temple vessels to get all liquored up. Kind of like the Obamas putting their feet up on the White House furniture, loading an upholstered ottoman with greasy Super Bowl fare, and/or inviting in the Rap trash to kick back and slum up the place.
Daniel didn't need a special revelation, fast or prayer to read the writing, because the cause and effect was already plain as day to him. He didn't even need the writing, he only had to remind the king of what should have been obvious (5:17-23). After all, the idiom is used not to indicate a random warning out of nowhere, but a clear foreshadowing of a bad outcome.
And here we are. :(