They don’t understand the way a lot of the business world works nowadays. And in a nation where the societal pressures against crime are rapidly falling away they’ll be even more wrong.
(On the social acceptance of crime now, versus as recently as twenty years ago: how many of your neighbors falsified their mortgage applications? How many could you see engaging in auto-insurance fraud? Cheating on their taxes? It’s spreading. In California, almost everybody breaks the speed limit laws multiple times a day. Think elites are any different? Think again.)
I used to think the epidemic of speeding in California was a sign of a healthy libertarian disrespect for the State. Now I’m thinking it’s the most visible symptom of massive decay in the social structure.
There are so many, how to put this? Laws that are felonies on the books now that it is impossible to live a normal life without breaking at least one a day. We are all felons now, so where is the benefit in trying to live an honest life? I try to live up to the Ten Commandments, but suspect even doing that will put me afoul of the law.
Gerry N.
The amoral national leadership begets amoral local leadership, which begets amoral local society.
Easy to understand, hard to solve. It will take a MAJOR calamity to change this, a calamity where only the moral and prepared survive.
Malthus may save us yet.