PO2012
Active Member
- Oct 24, 2013
- 815
It will take either a Stalin or a Hitler in the White House before people wake up and think twice about their laziness.
Even that isn't enough. Their creature comforts have to disappear. It's easy to cocoon yourself when you have a constant supply of electricity and running water, 900+ cable channels, streaming video, a variety of tasty and fattening foods to choose from and cold beer in the refrigerator.
I'm convinced that our material success is a major factor in why we are far more apathetic and far less free on the balance today than in the past. It used to be that there weren't as many distractions as there are today. Getting involved was what you did to pass the time and make life bearable. Now you can anesthetize yourself all day with a hundred different forms of entertainment never truly realizing how much worse the world has gotten with the passage of time.