Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Don't Say You're Sorry


He predicted, I remember, that human slavery would come back, that it had in fact never gone away. He said that so many people wanted to come here because it was so easy to rob the poor people, who got absolutely no protections from the Government. He talked about bridges falling down and water mains breaking because of no maintenance. He talked about oils spills and radioactive waste and poisoned aquifers and looted banks and liquidated corporations. "And nobody ever gets punished for anything," he said. "Being an American means never having to say you're sorry."

Hocus Pocus. Written in 1990.


I know of two people that predicted the future.

Kurt Vonnegut and E.O. Wilson.

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