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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Sorry Skybird, everyone had foresight into this problem.
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Everyone? Should I laugh now? I remember some of the accusations I had been targetted with over the past years. Some of them were hurtful. Foresight into the problem they did not reveal - more outright ignorance, according to the motto: it cannot be what should not be - we are STRONG.
Of course, some people with a more open mind saw it coming. but by far not everyone. People headed for the cliff with thundering applaus. That with the masses pushing in your rear the only way down there is to jump, nobody wanted to hear. It's the classical Lemmings phenomenon. Lemmings do not jump off cliffs because they are stupid, as often is said. The ones up in front get pushed from the masses coming behind them. It does not need many to get the march of the Lemmings started, but once it's under way, it seems you can't stop it - everybody yells "Me to! and dreams of the cheap fortune, and pushes with all his strength. |
Don't cherry pick. Most ignored it. It is not the lemming to the sea. It is greed and keeping up with the Jones. There are constant ads on TV advertising for help with folks who are in over their heads. Again, everyone knows but chose to ignore. Phone calls from collectors keep coming in with letters to follow looking to collect. These were ignored as well. Then the roof caved in. |
Have I really said so much a different thing? Do we really that much disagree here? :hmm: as I said, Lemmings do not run and jump to droiwn in the sea, they just don't knopw when enough is enough (of running up that cliff). And at some time, it turns to being driven by a self-dynamic - and push and ooops and splatter...