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I think people use swearwords more these days in part because we are a cruder, most blasphemous, uglier-soul people than our forefathers.
On the other hand, some things that happen these days cannot but provoke exclamations related to copulation, divinities, and the evacuation of the bowels, and the other things we hold sacred.
This is the national debt of the United States. twelve TRILLION and climbing. This is more debt than all previous debt in history combined.
When I posted this debt clock on 11/20, only a fortnight ago, it was eleven trillion.
That means your elected representatives, O ye generation of profligates, just ran up on the credit card the amount of money it would take to fight a five or ten wars the cost of World War II, $2091.3 billion (adjusted for 1990 dollar values) or run fifty or one hundred space programs the cost of the Apollo program, which was $25.4 billion. In two weeks, that is how much they spent of the money of your grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
