Another post lost from the Blogger interface juggling things when the connection dropped. Recreation by various means follows.
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To be clear, these socio-political notions aren't a case of kicking against the pricks, though there's plenty of the latter to be had. Especially with springtime, and their ennervation, it's clear that I'm surrounded by people who have grown to be what the vast majority of recent civilizations would consider very bad people. And these folks, in their manner of being, populate an industrial mechanism that provides prosperity to a healthy preponderance of the population -- a much larger fraction than past civilizations.
If this were merely a case of folks being bad people, I could abide it. But the difficulty is that collectively, people have apparently decided that (given sufficient niceness) good and bad are illusions of the past. That things are good if they serve the prosperity.
