The Decline & Fall Of Western Civilization

gabbneb to taxi driver: Carnegie Hall.
taxi driver to gabbneb: What's that?

I was late anyway so got out halfway and took the subway.

practice gabbneb. practice.

a derrated thread

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD BECAUSE EVERYONE IS STUPIDER THAN GABBNEB

ugh i'm sorry. you were late.

that may well be true, sturgeon, but it has nothing to do with my point, which is that no one nyc cab driver should need to be told what carnegie hall is

anyway, i made it in plenty of time for my friend's world premiere and also saw my friend who works for the orchestra so all was well

also i was pissed because the guy decided the quickest way uptown was to follow a billboard

Thank god we don't have to take this thread seriously. That would only pander to my worst curmudgeonly instincts.

CHILDHOOS

aka the Steendaughter

I'm guessing your cabbie probably didn't know Carnegie Hall because he was new to both New York and the job.

wow, this possibility is blowing my mind. he wasn't new to driving while on his cell phone tho

Guardian on National Intelligence Council Report:
2025: END OF U.S. DOMINANCE

BBC on same:
THE AUTUMN OF U.S. INFLUENCE?

The Times (London):
INTELLIGENCE REPORT: AMERICAN DOMINATION IS ENDING

Le Monde:
QUE RESTERA-T-IL DE LA PUISSANCE AMERICAINE EN 2025? (What will remain of U.S. power in 2025?)

Now.. how do you think American newspapers reported on this new intelligence assessment (forget American television news, which will ignore it entirely)?

New York Times:
GLOBAL FORECAST BY AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE EXPECTS AL QAEDA'S APPEAL TO FALTER

Washington Post:
REPORT SEES NUCLEAR ARMS, SCARCE RESOURCES AS SEEDS OF GLOBAL INSTABILITY

you've got to love this last sentence on the BBC site..

"And, our correspondent adds, it is worth noting that US intelligence has been wrong before. "

this thread ios about unfeasibly small crisps.

i have heard as large a number of declarations that "western civilization is actually eroding before my eyes, i never thought i'd see the day" from conservatives in the last month as in my entire life. the markers of the fall of western civilization are government interference in the market and universal health care, fyi.

this thread was back from the good old days....

Tell these conservatives that we thank them for their interest and are waiting for them to die of despair so we can roast them and eat them to stay alive in the end times. (I wouldn't want to disappoint their hopes, you see.)

I don't know about that, there's a lot of gristle on a conservative...

If we're going to roast the conservatives, we need to start working on the marinade asap.

it's good that society is getting more decadent. what are you all, quakers?

decadence is def bad for your teeth, though

in my childhoos

worth reviving just for that

My favorite example of the kind of thing Tracer Hand is complaining about is a study that came out on the difference between the American smile and the British smile. Here's how the New York Times reported it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas_section3-2.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22american%20smile%22&st=cse

And here's how the (London) Sunday Times reported the same study:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article516707.ece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n3dclvTfHw

Last posts eight years ago! Think this thread could use an update. All the excruciating minutiae of tweets and daily fuck-ups and more tweets of the once hailed Western model of democracy on the rolling Murica politics thread shrouds in dark clouds the fact that with this level of intense stupidity of the powers that once were "the West" is completely fucked.

And perhaps it's for the best.

I don't know if there's a lot else to say.
I can't tell if the EU is going to last another 20 years. Clearly American dominance is coming to an end. What emerges as the next hegemon seems completely up for grabs, though.

perhaps it's for the best.

Due to the fact that Murican politics still is the controlling mechanism for vast military and economic power, able to rapidly fuck up the entire globe, intense stupidity on the part of those running it is NOT for the best. Perhaps isn't anywhere in the race.