(07-23-2024, 01:06 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: I was a fan of Isaac Asimov's work. I think I have read everything he has written, including "The Foundation".
I can't help but notice the patterns in how the system is playing us right now.
It is so in your face that even the blind can see. What I find most perplexing is the sheer numbers of people that are willfully allowing themselves to be weaponized against the very country that they claim the are willing to die for.
The campaign on both sides is disgusting. Nothing more than a three ring circus complete with the naked ladies, and opium tents.
Maybe before we start talking about making America great again, we should wash off some of the mud and feces, and make her at least look clean and respectable first.
You must be a heck of a voracious reader!
Asimov wrote around 350 books plus edited around 150.
No matter, I get your point and I'm quite sure you've read far more than me.
I bolded part of your text above as I think that is spot on!
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell