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Doom and gloom has been selling for decades. Don't buy it.
by Clubber 5y ago
Doom and gloom has been selling for decades. Don't buy it.
- fullstackchris 5y agothe end is nigh!
- coldtea 5y agoI think you've gotten the wrong takeaway message from "The boy who cried wolf story". At some point, there were indeed wolves, so dismissing the chance of them because of fradulent/failed prior warnings turned out to be a mistake. Plus, in 2022 it's more accurate than ever. Though of course, Rome didn't decline in a day, either...
- Clubber 5y agoThis isn't a boy who cried wolf story, this is a business model that is toxic and makes money of peddling fear and have been for decades.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoThe take away isn't to always listen, but to not always exaggerate/lie. The reader never got impacted by the wolves, the speaker did. So in the end, maybe the ones impacted will be the media, not the readers.
- esens 5y agoEmpires all do end and when they do they often fracture because of a built up of social discontent, but they are predicted to be ending 1000x more often than they end. Eventually someone calls it correctly though, and generally you only know who in hindsight.
- kube-system 5y ago720 broken clocks might have one with the correct time on it, but that doesn’t mean it was working properly.
- Joker_vD 5y agoIt's like predicting someone's death: undoubtedly one day that person will die, it's just quite hard to predict it accurately. As devil in a certain book jested, "Yes, the man is mortal, but that's half the trouble; it's that he sometimes is abruptly mortal, that's the trick!"
- Joker_vD 5y agoThe collapse of the USSR in 1991 came as quite the shock to everyone, including both the Soviets themselves, nevermind the Americans. Yes, the West have been spelling "doom and gloom" for the USSR since November of 1917 and yet it never came to pass... until one day, it suddenly did. And BTW, spelling the imminent doom of the Russian Empire too has been quite in vogue in Europe during the XIX century, and still it came in as quite a surprise to everyone in 1917.
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoThe USSR had alternate models to move to. What alternate model does the US have? The only ones that are somewhat successful are Russian and Chinese style authoritarianism, neither of which are palatable to the US population.
- anonporridge 5y agoThe alternative style for the US is more loose confederation of independent states than tightly unified under a powerful federal government. This has literally been the key point of contention from just about day one.
- Clubber 5y agoSince before day one. Jefferson supported the former while Hamilton supported the later. This disagreement lead to the first political parties inside of GW's administration. This led to a dire warning in his farewell address: "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
- jessaustin 5y agoMaybe we could be like most of Europe? A little bit less capitalism, a little bit more socialism, quite a lot less stupid wars? What was I thinking, of course that's absolutely unthinkable...