What was that poem’s phrase, “not with a bang but a whimper”?
I heard the whimper today.
I was waiting for my order in a fast food restaurant when in strolled two local teenage high school females. The first thing I noticed was their iPods, which they flashed about. The first thing I heard was, “Can I borrow a dollar?”
Incredulous, I laughed and enquired when this young woman planned to pay me the dollar back since “borrow” means also to “return.” She had no answer, so I handed over a dollar to bring about a conclusion. It was better than trying to give her a lesson in comportment and manners, etc.
Would this stuff happen in Ben Franklin’s time? No doubt, but I did sense in this little scene the “whimper” of what’s to come, which isn’t going to be pretty society-wise.
Oh, well, I’m on the tail-end of things, so maybe I won’t live long enough to see where all this leads, but the signs are everywhere.  Perhaps that’s why the Romans felt it was better to just buy off the masses (me included) with “pan et circensis,” bread and circus, than worry about education and all that stuff.
Unfortunately, the Romans may have been right.
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