What age are we in?

[Walker]

Definite measures. You must be one of them there social engineers.

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Voices here are either:
- in the old age of middle age,
- in the youth of old age,
- or in the middle age of old age.

Readers here are either:
- in the old age of youth,
- in the youth of middle age,
- or in old age of old age.

Likely a minority of exceptions exists.

[Walker]

Quirk, although I'm not a licensed philosophy inspector, the insight required for relevant brevity is appreciated when it does appear.

[henry quirk]

"Yes, deny the science like a good little drone."

The (spirit of the) Politburo has you by the ovaries.

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"Again you deny the science. You don't even have the slightest clue what CO2 is or how it contributes to warming of the atmosphere, do you?"

CO2 isn't the only factor involved: did 'you' know that? CO2 isn't the most important factor involved: did 'you' know that?

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"Seemingly, if Murdoch and Fox say humans had nothing to do with it then that's good enough for you."

I don't give a flip what Fox sez...'it's ALL propaganda', remember?

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"Irrelevant."

Not when gov looks to penalize dietary choices, it isn't.

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"US is increasingly divided, angry and dysfunctional."

It's always been this way. Ain't nuthin' new. I know cuz I live here.

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"A once-great empire laid low by hubris, as they all do."

Nope. We took a dip cuz a dip decided to piss on his own country for eight years, but we're back, baby! In a large, unmistakable way. Get used to it.

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"You guys are deluded as to your power and influence and that's why you keep picking fights with small fleabag countries and getting your butts royally kicked every time!"

oh, we fuck up royally from time to time, but even our fuck ups are glorious, kick ass events.

You're just jealous...you wish you were American.

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"Classic moral relativism."

Nope, just a simple assessment.

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"(Greta's) bias is outrageous- and far more ubiquitous."

Exactly.

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"You, as a Trump fan"

That's the thing: I'm not.

He wasn't, isn't, the best one for the job. He was, however, the best one on the ballot. I can explain why I voted for him, if you wanna know.

[Walker]

"You, as a Trump fan"

That's the thing: I'm not.

He wasn't, isn't, the best one for the job. He was, however, the best one on the ballot. I can explain why I voted for him, if you wanna know.

People don’t understand that Trump was not the principled issue in the election.
Or maybe they do, and just want to alter history.

Corruption was the principled issue (issue of principle) in the election.

That’s why Clinton lost.
Everyone knows she is corrupt as hell.
There's evidence that goes beyond style and personality.
What's amazing is that so many have been corrupted enough to not see it.
Or maybe they do, and don't realize the implications, or don't care.

Trump’s shortcomings were known going into the election.
Nothing new has been revealed about Trump.
What folks saw is what folks got.

For one thing, he was never a politician.
He did not craft his persona to be one.
He was a man about town, puttin on the Ritz.

Clever politicians are finding it more difficult to write history in their own image these days.

Here's a bunch of brevities.

“It's not your fault, Mr. President. You didn't push too far. All you did was troll Donald Trump into running for president in the first place, stand by while Ferguson and Baltimore rioted and burned, give Iran billions in exchange for empty promises, allow Russia to establish a beachhead in the Middle East for the first time in half a century, browbeat Israel at every opportunity, ram through Obamacare after Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts, preside over the mass migration of children across the southern border in 2014, expand the DACA amnesty despite saying 22 times you lacked authority to do so, use the permanent structure of government to devastate the Appalachian economy, convince half of America that liberals were ready to take their guns (this wasn't hard to do), have your Education Department issue orders that led to the campus-assault craze and the deterioration of classroom discipline and that, months before a presidential election, mandated trans-bathrooms in schools, have your Justice Department preside over a sloppy (I'm being charitable) investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server that included, at one point, your attorney general secretly meeting with the husband of the subject of the investigation on an airport tarmac, muscle out Joe Biden, who might have won, from the race, and hand the party back to the less-likable half of America's most polarizing and corrupt political couple. Not to mention the eight years of lecturing. Oh, the lecturing.”
- Matthew Continetti
The World As It Wasn’t
The Washington Free Beacon


"Charlie Croker was a man in full. He had a back like a Jersey bull."
- Thomas Wolfe

[Dalek Prime]

500 years from now, in the year 2518, what do you think they will call our age? The 19th to the 21st century (give or take)?

The electric age?
The technological age?
The computer age?
The nuclear age?

Or will they extend the medieval age to the 21st?

They'll call it Grade 8.

"Make America Gr8 Again".

[FlashDangerpants]

500 years from now, in the year 2518, what do you think they will call our age? The 19th to the 21st century (give or take)?

The electric age?
The technological age?
The computer age?
The nuclear age?

Or will they extend the medieval age to the 21st?

The Late Dramatic Period.

If you look all the good books, plays, TV shows and whatnot ever written, they have been about people struggling against problems, many of which we are probably among the last generations to experience.

I know lots of people here enjoy fantasising about imminent catastrophe, but this planet is actually going to supply more food for its people than ever before every decade for quite a while. Greenhouse gas emmmission will fall flat and then go negative much sooner than people are expecting. Healthcare is going to rapidly become cheaper over the course of this century, much as transportation did in the last one. The feared rise of the job stealing robots will actually result in much more leisure time for meat bags like us to enjoy all the dirt cheap goods and services it enables, the list goes on and is too long to name our age after any specific technology or social change....

But fuck it will be boring. When nobody is robbing banks, starving, slinging illegal drugs or dying tragically young from cancer, what the are they going to put on TV? The future is just a bunch of smug bastards meditating and stuff. Everyone will miss the good old days when you walked to the shop with your food stamps hoping not to get stabbed again.

[Sir-Sister-of-Suck]

But fuck it will be boring. When nobody is robbing banks, starving, slinging illegal drugs or dying tragically young from cancer, what the are they going to put on TV? The future is just a bunch of smug bastards meditating and stuff.

Well hopefully, a significant improvement in drug synthesis will come along with this technological advancement, and we'll be slinging some good legal drugs instead. I just find it funny that you think cable TV will still be around, though.

[Ramu]

500 years from now, in the year 2518, what do you think they will call our age? The 19th to the 21st century (give or take)?

The electric age?
The technological age?
The computer age?
The nuclear age?

Or will they extend the medieval age to the 21st?

According to the Clarke Graves model we are currently in stage orange, (materialism/physicalism)

[-1-]

Many comedians say we’re in The Humorless Age.

They won’t even work college campuses anymore.
That used to be a venue for edgy comics.

Too much PC these days.

Post-humour, post-rational, post-modern, post-communist, post writing (as on Internet forums), post-handwriting, post-sexual harassment, post-post (email and txt and tweeter took over letter writing), pro-state, prostate, pro-statins, pro-santa, pro-data, pro-propaganda era.