"Cogent" doesn't do it justice. Tim in Pa, where did you come up with this?

If this is your own analysis then... I stand in complete awe of it (as it answers questions that I've never been given a good answer-to).

My take on it all is that "unearned prosperity" is at the core of it. I have known for years that we all "stand on the shoulders of giants" (not my phrase, Sir Isaac Newton's BTW) and that if we were ignorant of that history then we were ill-equipped to maintain it's gifts. Both "technology" and "liberty" is great stuff until the children of the men who created it become too-stupid or "addled" to understand it or maintain it, thus the source of another phrase "in the end, the barbarians win".

Maybe "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" really was a communist plot to destroy western civilization?

Last edited by Lloyd3; 01/21/25 02:53 PM.