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The Diversion (Original Post)
Scuba
Aug 2015
OP
It's quite sad. We have, inside our little brains, an area in which communications
jtuck004
Aug 2015
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PatrickforO
(14,578 posts)1. Brilliant! K & R!!!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Nailed it!!!!!
And to think most do not have a clue. Propaganda rules in today's News Cycle.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)3. It's quite sad. We have, inside our little brains, an area in which communications
are sped up if we encounter those things which would have scared a cave dweller to death, like snakes, or big furry things with teeth. Also note the incredible pull to hang onto a weapon to protect the cave.
Our brains haven't evolved yet to help us realize the ideas above are far more deadly than any creature that might eat us.
Unfortunately we may burn the world up before our brains get a chance to evolve.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)4. And our civil liberties, what's left of them.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)5. Well, would you settle for some "tinkering" with chained COLA?
It's like New Coke. It sucks to be getting old.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)6. K&R.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)7. True takers are the ones coming after what's left of the social safety net.