Mind's Eye Re: The End Is Nigh

Hugo also said something to the effect that human life comes after ideology.  In my alien world education is everywhere and there are no schools or universities.  Warrington still win the cup and thrash the Lions in Extra Bowl, refusing to play in helmets and padding (though I am aided by my Zimmer frame at quarterback in that one)!

On Saturday, December 13, 2014 1:10:33 AM UTC, Molly wrote:

The end is nigh has always been. The sky is falling. There is a truth there always that we look away from because it is too painful, but that makes it none the less true. Zero Hedge gets it right enough to make us wonder.

On Friday, December 12, 2014 7:00:55 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote:

When we first started playing rugby league on Sundays, thinking we'd get better crowds than competing with soccer on Saturdays, various sandwich board clad men wandered amongst the queuing crowds warning us 'the end is nigh'.  Technically, you got in free, paying the entrance fee for a programme.  Junior tickets were three old pence and six of these coins would get you a bad hair cut at Brian Bevan's barber shop near where I caught the bus to school.  Bevan scored 800 tries as the Walter Peyton plus of the day.

I guess the equivalent of the 'end is nigh' merchants today is 'Occupy' or the libertarian Zerohedge site.  Rugby league was so popular after WW2 that more people could be locked out of Warrington - Wigan games than get in to the 40,000 capacity grounds.  109,000 got in to see Warrington beat Halifax in the Challenge Cup Final replay of 1954.  These days it is a minor sport.  Our economy is going the same way, though few seem to understand.

Victor Hugo once said - Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

 

We should be seeking a prosperity for all, yet our slogan remains 'jawbs, groaf, burn the planet'.  One can imagine a Facilitator sculpture of an ostrich with its head buried in the sand displaying this on a sandwich board carried on its nether regions.  Any one else with such a vision of 'modernity'?

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