It's a false analogy to compare the astrophysics of planetary motion to the rise and fall of man's societies. It's a historically known fact that societies created by man have decayed and ultimately failed, and it is known fact that the ensuing periods of chaos, e.g., the "Dark Ages", are not remembered as being periods of human civility and high culture; yet, the world continued to spin.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
My initial reaction was to say I don't know what you're talking about. But I do. Unfortunately it is not relevant. The point was, away from any artistic reference, that as long as there have been human males on this planet, which does revolve, or so I'm told, I'll buy it based on the movements I see, there have been old men bitching about young men.
That was my opinion as this thread went in a 'good old days' direction. I could have quoted Billy Joel: "the good old days weren't always good."
However, the OP it seems is saying conservatives don't ever keep people from working for political reasons, and liberals do. I'm not going into that, humans do it, the commonalities being greed and pettiness. I'm welcome the corrections in advance.
However, since you mention the dark ages, I say bring it. The world will keep spinning and we need some chaos and anarchy to clean shit up. I don't think it is far off; we're filling the Black Sea with fighting ships because a couple
ladies are figure skating in the neighborhood. The news is plastered with pics of some lady wearing a headwrap (I mean no disrespect the name of the garb escapes me) who's
supposedly gonna blow up a bunch of snow-skiiers. We might not set off a bunch of bombs, but we promote terror.
