You know when you go to a party and feel the stages of that party. As people arrive the energy level builds and builds until it’s at that apex and really humming and stays at that point for awhile before it goes over the mountain and starts heading down. People start leaving, the juju dissipates until the evening is completely over. Well that’s the parallel I see next to civilization. Things were building and building for centuries in a pretty good way, with some exceptions…slavery, world wars, 9/11,etc., and now we are on the other side of the mountain and heading down fast. Here’s my proof; the “C” word, the “P” word and oral sex. Sounds like a Dr. Seuss title doesn’t it? Twenty years ago Bill Clinton had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky in the White House, two years ago a tape emerged during the presidential campaign with Donald Trump talking about grabbing pu..y and recently tv host Samantha Bee called the president’s daughter a c..t. Okay is your mind blown yet? Two out of the three items of proof of the decline of civilization are from the mouths of presidents and the third is the president’s daughter getting hit with the “C” word on public airwaves. Listen I’m not saying this stuff didn’t go on before but never did it land on the coffee table. Before the last 20 years people had the common decency to do this kind of thing behind people’s backs with no cameras and microphones present. The “C” word and the”N” word are probably our most weaponized words. The “N” word should never be used and the “C” word only if you’re ready for major blowback. It’s the flamethrower of words and only used to maim or kill. So I guess we’re on the other side of the mountain as far as civilization goes and I long for the day when the coffee table was for books, magazines, bric-a-brac and just coffee, the good “c” word. Yes I like my coffee feckless and sugarless.

gunga galunga,
Garry