Step out of your front door. Can you hear that sound? No it is not the Langoliers, Mr. Toomey. It is the sound of the down swing of our society. The sound in your head that you don't want to listen to. Well stay seated and read on and I will break it down briefly for you.
Everything is cyclical. Civilizations rise and fall. The Incas, the Aztecs, the Romans, the Egyptians, the list goes on. We, especially Western Civilization, have had our run of it. We have red lined the tachometer of our society for so long that it is now time to come back to planet Earth. The ancient Greeks based many of their myth and tragedy plays on the notion of hubris, man's pride and arrogance being his undoing. Icarus flew too close to the sun ignoring his father's warning, and we, through our greed, have picked clean the carcass of the once great America.
Greed drove Madoff to take dollar after dollar in his ponzi scheme, and Greed drove his investors to hand the money over to him, believing in his falsified return schedules showing great performance even during the down turns in the market. Greed drove American Auto Worker Unions to take take take, making crazy wages and benefits for turning a screw and snapping on a panel and all the while, over the years, making their competitiveness in the car market worse and worse. Open up today's paper. Read the headlines and delve into a few. Can you see a few more examples? Can you find the next Icarus flying too high?
Well, the pendulum is swinging back now. Take the knife out of the draw. Cut yourself a slice of humble pie. Enjoy.
No post since April? *points finger* Shhaaammmee!! :P
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