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Wil's avatar

The age of Abundance is not over for everyone. In today's world we see the elite Oligarch's and politicians living in guarded mansions with high walls and flying around in private jets. They sell the unwashed the biggest hoax in history; that the world is coming to an end because of climate. They don't believe that lie for one moment. They are buying up farmland in America in the millions of acres to ensure their abundance never ends. They refuse to build nuclear power plants that would provide an abundance of clean energy, instead they build windmills that scar the landscape, and destroy fish and wildlife while providing us with Brownouts in the summer months. Their answer is to increase greater demand for electric in the future by building electric cars when the grid cannot provide for our current demands using renewable energy.

Western Civilization has provided an unparalleled standard of living for the greatest number of people in history as evidenced by the number of people from third world countries who want to come here. The ancient elites controlled the land and let the peasants farm it for subsistence living conditions. That is the process that is repeating itself again. Little by little they are taking the land, the means of transportation, and the freedom to disagree. The final coup will come when they take the means to resist away. History surely does repeat itself. At the end of the Second World War, we said: "Never Again", and yet here we are, again. We have changed the words from Dictator and Tyrant to President, Oligarch, and Dear Leader, but outcome is always the same, poverty and degradation for the middleclass while the band plays on in the penthouse suites.

Voltaire said it best: " Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." That is the lesson we never seem to learn for long.

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Maggie Fahy-Pepper's avatar

I am not sure about this "Age of Abundance" being over, but I am certain the "Age of Humanity" is almost there.

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