@sickburnbro Maybe this accounts for a lot of the "millenials are poorer than boomers" phenomenon and nobody doing that discourse even realizes it. Millenials had their resources and jobs transfered to browns, boomers mostly did not.
So the real question, is whether this guy was unique in some way.
Have they already replaced him? How many versions of him are there at a given time..
Have they already replaced him? How many versions of him are there at a given time..
First it was Alexander Hamilton... then it was Jesus Christ Superstar, now it's Helen of Troy... and perrhaps more I missed.
Will you take your child to a cinema? When the main character comes on the screen, do you lean over and whisper in his ear," its fake inaccurate, they're trying to deceive you?"
Dallas is catching up.
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb.
‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’
I am tempted to reply:
‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night.
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs."
- CS Lewis
‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’
I am tempted to reply:
‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night.
In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.
This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs."
- CS Lewis
