Shorter Life Span

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Once in a lifetime events used to come once every 40 years, now they come every 10.

The life expectancy of ideas is shorter because people expect less of themselves. We are less idealistic, less intellectual, while at the same time, seemingly, much more informed.

The Reagan-Thatcher economic collapses destroyed unions, replacing them with privatization that resulted in a new privileged class. It was the light on the hill: a fireplace for the new owners. This year, this time, it is the Public Unions that will be broken. And you will all, every one of you, vote Republican again. Probably because you know, and have known for more than a decade, that democracy can never win against Republicanism. All turns are Right Turns Now, now matter what the road is like.

Both Alike, Until

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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

— from Romeo and Juliet, Prologue, by William Shakespeare