We Really Must Start Behaving Ourselves

We have been behaving like spoiled children.

Ortega y Gasset observed this back in the Thirties, when Fascism was on the rise in his own country of Spain - and was spreading rapidly. He looked around him, saw what was happening, reported his findings - and was ignored.

Maybe his diagnosis of spoiled children was not so good - he was trying to describe a complex phenomena - but there is an element of truth in it. Industrialization had made them rich - but treated them badly - and now they were going to get even, by destroying the world that had destroyed them.

I think this is a better way of looking at the problem - by looking at the widespread destructiveness that is going on everywhere. And ignored everywhere.

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I can holler all I want about this - but I am wasting my breath. At certain times in history - everything falls apart, and nothing can put them back together. Humpty Dumpty has fallen of his wall.

All we can do is look at the results - a bunch of little pieces that used to form a whole - and marvel at them.