In some sense, this is worse than the Great Depression. Back then, people had the feeling that things would get better. Today, there is much fear and emptiness and hopelessness for so many...
I think people have been told what to believe since ancient antiquity. How else do you explain religion that has its beginnings probably from 10,000 years ago? Note that I don't mean spirituality, which is natural once you have "consciousness" and "free will", but organized religion that directs 90% or more of the world's population by the nose.People these days are mainly lost and confused . People are being told what to think and are labelled and grouped instead of making their own individual decisions based in truth and morality (truth and morality now being so clouded and miss-understood) and the state and money now being the new religion.
I think people have been told what to believe since ancient antiquity. How else do you explain religion that has its beginnings probably from 10,000 years ago? note that I don't mean spirituality, which is natural once you have "consciousness" and "free will", but organized religion that directs 90% or more of the world's population by the nose.
The difference is that the incentives in government were very different until very recently. I rate Reagan as the pivot to a down spiral from which we may never recover. Isn't funny, that Reagan is the GOPs second coming of Christ?
