Talk amongst yourselves. I give you a topic. Discuss.
"Americans I have encountered of late exude a sense of fatalism and cynicism whose cause may reflect an empire in decline. What Italian, when reading of Rome, doesn't feel some momentary sense of loss? Likewise what Spaniard or Britton, when viewing current life, doesn't somehow pine for the days when the heaviest lifting done was of the teacup or the hard-spined book, and ships bearing the crown owned the seas? This fate - decline - and associated sense of loss will befall us too, if it has not already, as we have less than our fathers before us." - Anthony Orth
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Jim, you're making my head hurt.
Endless consumption on a finite planet is impossible.
Yep, this one has a lot to it. Orth, by the way, is a bio-chemist.
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