If this guy actually gets anywhere near popular enough to succeed in a presidential race, I have a horrid fear that he wouldn’t make it to the inauguration.
Found via Mish, talking about the death of Capitalism.
No empire has survived. None. The only question is when.
What has survived? Culture, families, cities. The idea of the rule of law. Corruption. Knowledge, both information and disinformation (see: Corruption).
Man creates and destroys nations with breathtaking swiftness in geological time. Compared to the tribe of man, nations are the blink of an eye.
The only question is when, and chances are you wont know it till it’s on you. You have to realize that, and then ignore it.
One idea that has survived a long time, the idea of democracy, has survived countless attacks over the years.
Part of the problem is “the government.” And not just the way we are governed, but even the idea of “the government.” As if it’s this… thing. This entity that’s sitting over us, like some kind of whimsical father, deciding who shall be punished and who shall be rewarded. But it’s supposed to be us. Yet all we can do is send a letter to a Congressman to be read by an aid, tallied for opinion and replied with formletter for issue X.
Hopefully we can metamorphose democracy into a new, digital, interconnected, actually-by-the-people era.
TL;DR All nations die, humans live, government dysfunctions, maybe facebook is the answer.
Tags: depression 2.0, failout, republicans, ron paul, we're fucked, wild speculation, yes this is really how I amuse myself