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Originally Posted by VegasBoy
"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat s... and die."
—Gonzo Papers, Vol. 2: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s, 1988
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."
—"Extreme Behavior in Aspen," February 3, 2003
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Nice quotes, but the idea here is to see what is coming and deal with it, the more one knows about the situation, the less there is to fear and the easier it is to take positive action. Ideally, a complete restructure of an impossible cardboard shack that some insane people with no sense of accounting have tried to build with our money over decades of unsupervised activity.
The lesson is simple enough, never leave your checkbook on the street with every blank check signed and expect any good to come of it, because chances are some insane person will get ahold of it and start cashing those checks.