price of civilization

Ponder this:

When you think you are the highest point, you don’t look up !

 
Ponder this:

“…the energy, the optimism, the altruism and the humanity that won the admiration and devotion of so many of my generation who found in America in the postwar decades the idealism and excitement of a society that looked to the future with high hopes and moral purpose.
 
“This perspective has alas threatened to turn sour over the last 30 years as cynicism, greed and fundamentalist clap-trap have been mobilised to occupy the temple of enlightenment.”

 

86 percent of New York voters agree with the protesters’ views.

When it comes to social justice the USA ranks near the bottom.