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Originally Posted by 3.0L
I've been struggling with that thought for over 50 years. As I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum, 5 very fine young men from our high school were killed in Vietnam. Four of them were from my graduating class of '65. One of them was drafted the same day I was and we ended up sharing the same, crappy hotel room near the induction center in central L.A. He was a very nice fellow. All but one were 20 years old when they died. The other one was a ripe old age of 22. I think of the marriages that didn't happen and on and on. It's difficult to accept.
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I hear ya, and you're literally battle-hardened/scarred, so I'm sure you've had lots of think about, much, much more than the avg person. I dunno, I really wonder about the world sometimes in very philosophical/abstract ways, w my limited monkey brain, trying to make sense of it. When I see all those cruel examples, I really start to doubt things.
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The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation...It's bullsh*t. I create nothing. I own. We make the rules, pal...Now you're not naive enough to think we're living in a democracy, are you buddy?