When my grandparents were born, communicable disease was the leading cause of death. My kids are going to die from lifestyle illnesses. All these post war advances are making us soft, wasting our cash, and encouraging the socialist agenda for a Nanny state. The poor remain in America, we have just overfed them, so they stay calm and down on the farm, not marching in the streets.
clay On Jan 5, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > You're probably right, a lot of it is fear driven. We live in the safest > world we've ever known, crime is down, sickness is down, hunger is down, > poverty is down. As a species we're pretty poor at judging risks. I read a > thing the other day that said if you poll people they'll tell you how > dangerous unprotected sex is, where in the real world long car trips are much > more likely to get you hurt of killed... > -Curt > > > From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 10:20 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] the thug in chief > > More to the point, in the last 5-10 years it seems like we as a society are > placing far more significance to one's political affiliation as a measure of > social norms. > > When I was younger and especially as a child growing up in a very politically > active household, I never experienced the vitriol of the likes that we see > today. > > I wonder if it's not due to the various news organizations and talking heads > that get the masses all whipped into a frenzy. Especially those who cater to > people who might be less educated and more susceptible to parroting ideas > that are not of their own thought process. > > It's one thing to have opposing views, but to disrespect another just because > they think differently from you is something that I have a hard time > understanding. > > Dan > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
