Posted on 10/10/2019 5:33:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many of the stories about the gods and heroes of Greek mythology were compiled during Greek Dark Ages. Impoverished tribes passed down oral traditions that originated after the fall of the lost palatial civilizations of the Mycenaean Greeks.
Dark Age Greeks tried to make sense of the massive ruins of their forgotten forbearers' monumental palaces that were still standing around. As illiterates, they were curious about occasional clay tablets they plowed up in their fields with incomprehensible ancient Linear B inscriptions.
We of the 21st century are beginning to look back at our own lost epic times and wonder about these now-nameless giants who left behind monuments that we cannot replicate, but instead merely use or even mock.
Does anyone believe that contemporary Americans could build another transcontinental railroad in six years?
Californians tried to build a high-speed rail line. But after more than a decade of government incompetence, lawsuits, cost overruns and constant bureaucratic squabbling, they have all but given up. The result is a half-built overpass over the skyline of Fresno -- and not yet a foot of track laid.
Who were those giants of the 1960s responsible for building our interstate highway system?
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I have often wondered the same thing. We could build the Battleship Missouri and the Hoover Dam...could we do that again?
Tell me about it.
This is what’s happening to the UK:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/10/man-killed-fishcake-hot-burned-throat-10894623/
Hitler must still be knocking his head, in his grave, wondering how he could have lost to this bunch.
Ten years to build the “Freedom Tower”.
Empire State building? 18 months.
Between unions and lawyers we don’t stand a chance.
Nephilim and Anakim. The Bible talks about them. Giants.
There has never been a “Thousand Year Reich”, Republic, Monarchy, or anything else. The Chinese probably come closest and if I understand correctly they were at constant war with each other and Mongols. It just can’t be done. The people required to do one step are changed by the result to people who cannot do what their fathers did. It’s like stirring the cream out of coffee. It’s a one directional transformation.
May be politically incorrect to note but as America has embraced hedonism, decadent epicureanism, and “multi culturalism”, it as a nation has declined. Post Christian neo paganism is not the foundation for greatness.
The greatest engineering achievements of the 20th Century were the Panama Canal, the Manhattan Project and Project Apollo. We couldn’t do any of those today.
Previous generation were not globalists and believed in American industry. In contrast today’s Republican “leaders” are globalist Free Traitors™ and don’t give shit.
Very good article there. And I was pleased to see that Afghanistan was mentioned:
“We have been fighting in Afghanistan without result for 18 years. Our forefathers helped to win World War II and defeat the Axis Powers in four years.”
Watching Ron Howards Apollo 13, as they lit it off and it began rising, I KNEW we’d lost something vital and elemental in our Culture and it wasn’t coming back.
Who is John Galt?
Drivel..... balderdascious over hyped drivel
Trump is one of those giants. He is exactly the sort of guy who makes the Big Stuff happen. Case in point is the ice rink in NYC that the city just couldn’t seem to ever finish. Trump stepped in and just did it super quick.
But Trump is virtually alone in government. We have shackled ourselves with regulations, unions, and environmental fear. He’s trying to get the country back to where we can do great things, but both parties are fighting him.
Has nobody read Atlas Shrugged?!
That is where we are, except there is not an “overt” quitting to a Galt’s Gulch. It’s why I think we are on the brink of collapse. Well, one of the reasons.
Mankind reached its zenith and is on the back side. The downslope. Tech marches on because of the tech we already created and are using. But the human soul is being starved. It will not end well, though we’ll all have really good air conditioning and fast food.
“Who is John Galt?”
Heh, someone who will never EVER be a Democrat.
The only drivel is dripping off your globalist Free Traitor™ worm tongue.
Hatred of the good for being the good + resentment against achievement + egalitarianism = leftard mentality
Why wonder about what we can or cannot accomplish when the problem is that there is no “we”.
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