By golly Bear, you've got quit a style going there!

"It may have always been this way, prolly was for that matter when Jefferson was arguing semantics with the wooden teeth guy, just with far less people & cameras and a far more outwardly polite (regal) brand of comfy-chair-sittin, ass-kickin-&-name-takin, hurry-up and shake th bacon, moribund but never abating hellbound majority statesmen in the company of fewer & fewer benevolent humanitarians with wherewithal & resolve."

I'm thinking too of intentional polio-ization of blankets for the natives, enslavement of peoples based on absolute nonsense notions of race and/or color, and average lifespans being rather brutish, nasty, and short. I just don't see any golden age in the past. It's probably the result of doing more reading than is good for me.

Which is not to say that I don't want things (whatever "things" may mean) to get better . . .

Herring405