enjoy what wealth I generate in the next few years behind the walls of a safe zone in some kind of SF dystopia
Oh? Well, just for your information, back in Ye Olde Days one of the promised joys of Heaven® was to be able to look down on the sinners roasting in Hell® and gloat. “Neener neener, serves ya right, ya losers, hey, you wanna drink of nice cool water? Too damn bad, ah hah-hah-hah…”
No joke. Look it up.
So yah, if the oil is at $1000 a barrel and the insanely over-extended Federal Debt Ceiling has finally cracked and fallen in and the “urban underprivileged” have decided that if the welfare checks and foods stamps have stopped (and the iron-barred local grocery stores are looted to the walls) then Whitey in the rich suburbs must be made to pay directly, but Whitey has had decades enough of that already and is better armed, resulting in a viciously genocidal race war…
Then you can safely huddle behind your medieval-fortified “gated community” walls and private paramilitary-armed police and listen to the gunfire, with your solar radio tuned in to occasional, ludicrously optimistic, indeed downright delusional “news reports.”
“Most of the GIs I knew sort of winked at the news they heard, but not until later in the war, after Tet, did they really seem to be broadcasting such sterile news that it flew right in the face of reality, what the average GI was seeing…
“When you found in the heighth of battle, with the country coming to pieces all around you, and Armed Forces Radio News consisted of what was happening at the State Fair in Burning Stump, Montana, then its credibility became simply destroyed.”
- Don North, ex-Armed Forces Vietnam Network reporter
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enjoy what wealth I generate in the next few years behind the walls of a safe zone in some kind of SF dystopia
Oh? Well, just for your information, back in Ye Olde Days one of the promised joys of Heaven® was to be able to look down on the sinners roasting in Hell® and gloat. “Neener neener, serves ya right, ya losers, hey, you wanna drink of nice cool water? Too damn bad, ah hah-hah-hah…”
No joke. Look it up.
So yah, if the oil is at $1000 a barrel and the insanely over-extended Federal Debt Ceiling has finally cracked and fallen in and the “urban underprivileged” have decided that if the welfare checks and foods stamps have stopped (and the iron-barred local grocery stores are looted to the walls) then Whitey in the rich suburbs must be made to pay directly, but Whitey has had decades enough of that already and is better armed, resulting in a viciously genocidal race war…
Then you can safely huddle behind your medieval-fortified “gated community” walls and private paramilitary-armed police and listen to the gunfire, with your solar radio tuned in to occasional, ludicrously optimistic, indeed downright delusional “news reports.”
“Most of the GIs I knew sort of winked at the news they heard, but not
until later in the war, after Tet, did they really seem to be broadcasting
such sterile news that it flew right in the face of reality, what the
average GI was seeing…
“When you found in the heighth of battle, with the country coming to
pieces all around you, and Armed Forces Radio News consisted of what was
happening at the State Fair in Burning Stump, Montana, then its
credibility became simply destroyed.”
- Don North, ex-Armed Forces Vietnam Network reporter