I've gotten this idea lately... I think America is dying.
It's not Clinton's Fault, though that's not due to a lack of trying. It's certainly not Bush's fault. Here's what I think. I think that a society can only deal with a certain amount of BS before it literally cannot hold it anymore. Sure, we need a certain amount of BS to keep us going, who would even have tried some of our greatest achievements had in not been for BS? Would Columbus have sailed across the ocean had he had not been full of BS? Would Ford have built the Model T if he were not full of BS? Some BS inevitably spills out, and there are always a large number of people trying to shovel the BS out of the way so that everyone else can get on with their lives. If more people are shoveling BS than producing it, society can normally survive, unless technology changes. For example... The printing press spelled the end of one Chinese dynasty. The Radio the end of another. Those technological changes were essentially BS multipliers. As one person producing BS used to only be able to throw it at a small crowd at most. Typically, it only took a few people shoveling to keep the streets cleared. With printing presses, the number of people that could be covered in BS went up dramatically. One person could cover people with BS for hundreds of miles. However, the number of shovelers went up, and this could be contained because the spread of BS was contained by the producer's available funds. It does cost money to print additional copies. Radio was the next major revolution in BS. With radio, you could cover hundreds, or even thousands of miles with BS, and after the initial set up cost, there was little maintenance cost to keep spreading BS. In addition due to the initial high setup costs, the radio broadcast produced higher quality BS. Yet, the lack of interactivity meant that no matter how wide flung the BS was, it could only get so deep. Eventually, we come to the internet; where one person can spread BS all over the planet, for a visual reference, click here... http://www.hampsterdance.com/classorig.html However, with enough shovelers, we could deal with even this level of BS. But the interactive nature of the internet means that the producers of BS feel they are in competition with each other, and therefore each must produce more BS than the other. An example... http://www.liberalforum.org/ Of course, in any culture, there will be those that are capable of out producing all others, and that are capable of rising to the top. And, there is a ruling elite of BS producers, one example http://www.michaelmoore.com/ These are people that are able to rise to the top on a literal rocket force stream of BS. When this feeding frenzy of BS producers starts, there are not enough shovelers in the world to keep the streets clean, those some valiantly try. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of dedicated shovelers, I believe that our society, on a world wide basis, is reaching a critical mass of BS, our shoveling system was never intended to cope with the internet. So in the end, it is inevitable... All the BS in the world will explode at once. I pity the survivors --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the schaller-crest.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------
