Just Like Before: You're Going To Feel Like A Fool (Once You Can Finally Get A Grip Again)

"Abandoned neighborhoods. Boarded-up harbor facilities. An oil refinery submerged under several feet of brackish water. The Statue of Liberty slowly sinking into the sea.

'Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront,' a new show at the Museum of Modern Art, reflects a level of apocalyptic thinking about this city that we haven’t seen since it was at the edge of financial collapse in the 1970s, a time when muggers roamed freely, and graffiti covered everything."

-- Nicolai Ouroussoff, reminding those of us who are old enough to remember the '70s - an extremely unhinged era, that featured everything from outrageously dumb fashion, and Area 51 conspiracy theories, to fears of "global cooling" - just how stupid this entire line of un-reasoning is, for The New York Times.

You people really ought to stop this. It's like everything you think, today, is a sign of weakness. Your imaginations are being wasted - on disasters that will never come - just like last time. Fear rules your lives.

I've always heard that life runs in cycles, but I never realized how much retardation was a part of that as well,...will we ever learn?