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We are, unfortunately, duplicating the pathology of 1st to 4th century Rome. Our biggest exports are gladiator sports, war and intolerance. After a golden period of innovation, equity and unity, our complacency with our position has yielded a generation of lazy, greedy, fear-mongers. The wealthiest Americans are so risk averse, they have to distract the lower economic classes with fake battles and meaningless conflict while they rob us of our lives and treasure. They promote ignorance and distrust of authority in order to fragment and repress opposition to their goals and policies. They rely on the lowest common denominator to set the bar which gives them cover when they behave abominably. These actions obliterate what economists call class mobility or what is commonly called The American Dream.

But not to go on a rant...

Calvin: "I wish I was a Tiger."
Hobbes: "Common lament."