March 14th: Scott's final Antarctic expedition.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

A short time ago I would have though so, but recently there's been a lot of shenanigans going on with copyrights, patents, international treaty language, powerful lobbies, and trolls.

[tangental]Allow me to take this too far, since I've been reading a lot of news feeds in the wrong light. This mad scramble for value, control, and power seems to give credence to the idea that as civilization crumbles the elites isolate themselves from the consequences of collapse as long as they can, while people in general bear the consequences. You get a lot of short-term thinking by people with power, propping up broken or flawed systems just hoping to ride it out instead of allowing civilization to evolve toward a potentially successful model.[way tangental] or I'm just going a little nuts.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Griff

[tangental]Allow me to take this too far, since I've been reading a lot of news feeds in the wrong light. This mad scramble for value, control, and power seems to give credence to the idea that as civilization crumbles the elites isolate themselves from the consequences of collapse as long as they can, while people in general bear the consequences. You get a lot of short-term thinking by people with power, propping up broken or flawed systems just hoping to ride it out instead of allowing civilization to evolve toward a potentially successful model.[way tangental] or I'm just going a little nuts.

You're not nuts, and it's not tangential at all.
It's the foundation everything teeters on today, the rational behind most of which befuddles our common sense reasoning, and the light illuminating shadowy figures who are shouting. look over there, no over there, over there.