As you surf the Web, read the press, watch the tube, you are inundated with tales of disaster. Syria is in flames! Egypt is collapsing! Mali is filled with jihadists and Frenchmen! Children are being molested, kidnapped, probably eaten! The study du jour informs you that your favorite foods will kill you deader’n a doornail, or at least cause you to grow long, green, cancerous tentacles! Your favorite politician, zipper agape, is tripping over his feet of clay! The dollar is not worth the paper it’s written on! The cities are filled with the oppressed! Drugs (prescription and recreational, although it’s increasingly hard to tell the difference) are being wolfed down by our adolescents! Guns are leaping out of closets and pursuing us down the streets! Civilization (Western Civilization, Eastern Civilization, Northern Civilization, Southern Civilization) is circling the drain!\u00a0 And it’s all true! WE’RE DOOMED!!!\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 All of us, Dear Reader, must keep one saving thought in mind:\u00a0 LIVING IN A COLLAPSING CIVILIZATION IS FUN!!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 FUN, FUN, FUN!!!\u00a0 You doubt me? Shame on you! Think about it: who does a collapsing civilization reward?\u00a0 GLADIATORS (think NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB)\u00a0 ACTRESSES (think Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan)\u00a0 PROSTITUTES (see above)\u00a0 Are these fun people or what?\u00a0 Stick with me, Dear Reader, and as time staggers on, I will regale you with tales of the upside of civilizational collapse.\u00a0 \u00a9 The Happy Pessimist<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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