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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:39 AM
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8. The exploitation of the World gave us our luxuries.
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 09:40 AM by indigobusiness
And our ease and accustomedness to luxuries will facilitate our downfall. The sort of self-reliance and commonsense ability of a hundred years ago is quickly waning. Our culture has evolved into one of systems manipulators, with few real-world practical abilities.

When the systems we rely on break down, even briefly, all hell breaks loose. Imagine LA with empty supermarkets...even for a week or two? Or NYC without water...which very nearly came to pass a few years back?

The resources that fueled the blossoming of America are not infinite, when they begin to run out, America will bear bitter fruit. We must learn live within our organic means and needs. The ostentatiousness of America is grotesque, and ultimately fatal.

Dominionism is death.
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