Fiscal Cliff..

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Hence the problem with society today. Everything is fatalism, gloom and doom. For decades men have stood on street corners with signs reading the end is near. Yet here we are. The media if full of nothing but bad news. How deep are we really in a mess? Has there been a time when the world was not in a deep mess? Major conflict and drama. There is always major conflict and drama. The only thing that has changed is we get fed the major conflict and drama instantaneously via the internet. Within in seconds the drama can be pumped to your desktop from hundreds of sources. In short, the world probably does not look very different from years ago with exception of us getting to see more of it at light speed as it streams to our monitors. The world has lived through depressions, wars, feast and famine. The only difference today, IMO, is we get to see it all in the comfort of our homes behind the warm glow of a monitor.

A guy holding up a booklet by The Watchtower I certainly do not take serious. But a history book on the hyperinflation of the 20s or the break-down of currency unions in Europe of the past 800 years - and how they all failed - I do take serious.

You see, some sectarians hiding in the cave because they predict the sky is falling, is one thing. Me being able to understand in reasonable terms and concepts today's economic links and ties, modern fiscal system etc, that is something different.

Or The Romans and ancient Greeks fearing the gods would punish them by destroying man's world - and 10,000 MIRVs in the multi-megaton range as we have had in the past couple of decades. It does not compare.

The threat of thermonuclear war is real, not just a sick psyche or superstitious hear-say. So is today's economic and financial system - it's real.