How about “affluence”? Affluence allows that special “well, bless their hearts” sort of stupid to survive long enough to make itself known.
It isn’t that good times necessarily make weak men but that they can also, more devastatingly, make bad men who do not know they are bad because they have been somehow sheltered from moral knowledge and have had relatively little occasion to bump into it as happens in hard times when trousered apes (CS Lewis’ term) must at least face the limits of their own smug self absorption while trying to survive.
Ross Johnson, 23, of Carterville, Illinois, has been charged with manslaughter in the death of Air Force Airman 1st Class Dayvon Larry, 31, of Malone, Florida, authorities said Tuesday.
When you speak without knowing what you’re talking about, you tend to say foolish things.
Florida Man is an Internet meme first popularized in 2013, referring to an alleged prevalence of men performing irrational, maniacal, illogical, delusional, insane, and absurd actions in the U.S. state of Florida
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Been going on for a decade or so.
It’s not a statistical thing btw. Just a funny thing.
I have long said that Marx, being a liar, was in his element and lying when he spoke of religion as the opiate of the masses, for in fact it is the drivel he and the rest were peddling that is the true opiate for the masses and pointy headed elites alike, for in socialist thought you find many showing something like salvationist zeal for their Revolution which is completely lacking in any of that messy and unwanted repentance and righteousness guff. Marxist are simply free to be the worst trousered apes they can be and they still deem themselves okay because they support the cause.
