I sense that everything is changing. Of course, my life is, that goes without saying. But yours is, too. The world is moving to that different place. I keep looking around and saying "So that's how they did it in the Roman Empire!"
Case in point, the phenomenon of Black Friday, the day of enormous retail sales after Thanksgiving. Crowds of people lines up all night. Thank heaven they still do not really make and effort to keep things under control, and there were a couple of videos of people being trampled when the various castles of consumerism opened their doors. There was one in Buffalo; we were watching Buffalo, NY, news in Toronto Saturday morning.
Bread and Circuses. Go back and look at the coverage and what people do. The items are not exactly free and the circus is ourselves in a reality show of greed, but just look how fascinating it is, and how we act as crowds and mobs, and how all our buttons are pushed.
We are the consumer proles getting our consumer fix.
So I keep looking around and saying "Roman Empire... deja-vu!" The degradations from the Needle Park of Consumerism to the Virtual Striptease of the TSA fighting to keep us safe from the groups our government was supporting just 20 years ago.
I know this is coming to an end. We all do.
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