top of the heap to third world status in one generation
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As a mental exercise, that one has some real heft to it.
i know, it aint possible...but we still do not have a "sarcasticon" available, dammit! i have a Cherokee or two in the woodpile, if family lore is true, so i'd probably pass...
Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington RobinsonMiniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
Miniver sighed for what was not,
And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam’s neighbors.
Miniver mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.
Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.
Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the mediæval grace
Of iron clothing.
Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
And thought about it.
Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.
Copyright Credit: Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy" from Collected Poems, with an introduction by John Drinkwater. London: Cecil Palmer, 1922. Public domain.
Source: Collected Poems, with an introduction by John Drinkwater (Cecil Palmer, 1922)
If one were set down in a culture of people with who one could not communicate, and you had the knowledge that the culture would be invaded by a people who do to differing immunities one culture would"if" time travel was possible, i'd like to go back to where i am now, but a hundred years before the catastrophic "discovery/invasion" of this continent by disease-bearing religious zealot Europeans. i'd warn the native peoples about the dangers of unrestricted immigration & be a prophet.
be done in by another in a hundred years time. Is there anything that one could do to change or alter
the anticipated result.
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harsh, but...true.
no, i don't think so either. but, i've been expecting another recurrence of the Oklahoma City bombing too, so i could be wrong.
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don't forget about this girl that got trampled to death
you're still treading all over her
