Brutally accurate. In playing “musical chairs,” it’s usually n-1 chairs for n players. One chair for n players is a quick road to wide-scale homelessness.
“Just offer a blanket dismissal of all Republicans as feckless dullards.” – How about just the 80% or so who refuse to self-police the lunatics, criminals and traitors?
For some earlier takes on this proposition, see E.M. Forster “The Machine Stops,” Keith Laumer “The Walls,” Ray Bradbury “The Veldt.” Or just look around at all the people lost in their tiny hand-held devices, with the glories of nature (and monstrosities of human fabrication and destruction) going unnoticed.
Slightly OT: Was it a Gahan Wilson cartoon showing a not-too-bright guy in front of a giant ON-OFF switch, with his new boss saying he didn’t have to learn it all on the first day?
Brutally accurate. In playing “musical chairs,” it’s usually n-1 chairs for n players. One chair for n players is a quick road to wide-scale homelessness.