Why is everything in the world right now so fucked up?

[Tiggeroshii]

...just wondering :shrug:

[Botany]

It has to do with molecules.

n/t

[MilesColtrane]

69. Molecules...I should have known.

God, how I hate molecules.

[rzemanfl]

1. It's all your fault. n/t

[TomClash]

2. Most homo sapiens with power suck nt

[Orrex]

3. Why should "now" be any different?

[Taverner]

Because certain people with lots of money want it that way

[hedgehog]

4. It's because the Daily Show and The Colbert Report were on hiatus last week.

It never fails - they take a week off and the world goes to hell in a hand basket!

[wickerwoman]

7. So true...

Jon needs to take his responsibilities more seriously. :D

[Catherina]

5. Because "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

That's the best I have.

[Tiggeroshii]

13. ...this animal needs a hug

=/

[Catherina]

16. This one too

:hug:

[Tiggeroshii]

19. aw thanks!

:hug:

=)

[opihimoimoi]

6. The Result of Pessimism, Cynicism, and Fascists in our Society

[Blue_Tires]

78. very true...

[MannyGoldstein]

8. Because we let it.

"In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."

- Ben Franklin, from his final address at the Constitutional Convention

[RKP5637]

34. +1, n/t

[sendero]

9. It has to do with planetary alignments..

... it is not possible to cheat your fate.

[dbt]

10. Corporations make more money this way.

Any more questions?

:evilgrin:

[GreenTea]

11. It's ALL about energy & power greed & imperialism - Oil, Nuclear & Coal

President Obama actually uses the term "clean" coal as if there is such a thing...Corporations controlling all of us and our planet, none of it for the better - the republicans don't give a shit, they care only about money & POWER!

[Ishoutandscream2]

28. +1000000000000000000000000

Capitalism run amok.

[RKP5637]

36. It is! Endless growth, always increasing costs, win/lose, no win/win and climb over

the person next to you. Money at any cost. Now does this sound F'ed up or what. It's a system wherein the final result will be greed and corruption if not kept under very strict regulation. It's obsolete.

[arcane1]

12. Right now?

:shrug:

[rrneck]

Us.

If you sent us out to fuck up, we'd fuck up on the way.

[pscot]

40. We have met the enemy

and he is us.

[rrneck]

42. +1000. nt

[spanone]

14. waterloo

[Uben]

15. It's usually greed.........

....whether it be despots keeping all the money or resources in a nation, another sect, party, class or whatever, greed seems to be at the bottom of all evils. There will always be people who don't give a shit about anything but themselves, everyone else be damned.

[KurtNYC]

17. SNAFU is military jargon and we're living it.

C'est la vie, c'est la guerre.

Moments of freedom and happiness are transitory and fleeting. In a timed world that has a consumerist plan for your life, freedom and happiness must be stolen minutes or hours at a time.

[OhioChick]

18. Too much corporate power and greed n/t

[Raine]

20. The rich, powerful and those in control are

unwilling any longer to have even one dirty little crumb fall from their over filled plates to the unwashed rabble. In olden days just to keep the masses quiet and out of trouble they would toss them a few dirty crumbs, not any longer. They resent even the most miniscule amount that doesn't go into their greedy mouths and they get away with it too, sadly.

[bowens43]

21. religion, belief in deities....

When people who can send spaceships out of the solar system and map the human genome still believe in omnipotent
little old men sitting up in the clouds smiting some and blessing others we have serious problems.

[RKP5637]

37. +1, n/t

[bobbolink]

22. Its been there for a long time. It is just now being uncovered.

It is painful, and hard to deal with.

Be gentle with yourself. :pals:

[Prometheus Bound]

23. We use too much energy.

[bigwillq]

24. Greed. Mismanaged government.

Corporations influence on the world. Folks voting the wrong people into office. Folks not voting at all. Folks continuing to believe the hype machine. Years and years and years of bad decision made my folks who get to make those decisions. And on and on and on.....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

25. Not enough roux

http://www.pannett.com/gumbo.html

[Motown_Johnny]

26. the "We Can Know" crowd says Jesus comes back May 21st

so maybe this is the tribulation


or maybe not



Perhaps we are cursed, we live in interesting times.

[sasha031]

27. I sometimes am reminiscent of the 90's

we had problems, right wing trying to impeach Clinton, but things seemed happier then.

it's been spiraling down since 2000, long time.

[bobbolink]

47. It seemed happier because you didn't have to worry about the mothers and children being cut from

welfare.

You didn't have to think about how many of them ended up homeless or sick or ... suicided.

Now it is more real.

[sasha031]

54. that was a terrible thing Clinton had done

[U4ikLefty]

62. He still brags about Welfare Reform.

He sucked...but hey, he was on "our team"!!!

[Skink]

29. because we know about every problem that occurs.

in every part of the world.

[Bluerthanblue]

30. because life is full of fuck ups and good times-

fleshed out with less extreem ones.

We've been going through some pretty dark times.

I'm sure that those who survived WWI, the influenza epidemic, the boom of the twenties followed by the great depression and then WWII thought things were pretty fucked up too.

wish I had the answer

:grouphug:

[RKP5637]

31. IMO many people are basically assholes, greedy and want domination and power. It's taken

me over half a century to really get that, guess I'm a slow learner.

[sellitman]

32. Califate

Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,Califate,

[ReggieVeggie]

33. And god said "Fuck you assholes, I'm on vacation"

Just kidding, there is no god

[Chorophyll]

35. When were things NOT fucked up?

:shrug:

[here_is_to_hope]

38. Too much cheap weed...

Thats all I am saying.

[Kaleva]

39. It's been fucked up since the beginning of time.

[tridim]

46. Yep. Situation normal.

The only difference today is that most of the Earth is connected. Problems used to be very local.

[jillan]

41. Because there are republicans living on this planet.

[nemo137]

43. What do you mean right now?

[Richard D]

44. Uranus went into Aries

True.

[tridim]

45. Nothing is fucked. You're being very un-Dude.

Natural disasters aside, I'm kind of excited about what's happening in the World. Things are changing big time.

[Initech]

48. Wall St.

[DJ13]

49. Greed

[Hannah Bell]

50. Capitalists re-dividing the world combined with higher-tech devices that allow

people to collect more information about what's going on in the world.

IMO.

[TBF]

81. +1 nt

[sad sally]

51. could it be...

In these circumstances, and smarting as I was under the recollection of recent defeat, it is not strange that I thought I detected the old political ruse of dressing the wolf in sheep's clothing, of using handsome pledges as a mask to deceive the gullible, and that I assumed that this scholarly amateur in politics was being used for their own purposes by masters and veterans in the old game of thimblerig.
— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him

[lutefisk]

52. Because Poppy and Babs begat a son named Junior

His eight year reign of error and terror destabilized the world. Not responsible for earthquakes, but that little son of a bitch set things in motion...imho


:hi:

[Still Blue in PDX]

66. I think you nailed it. nt

[DearAbby]

53. I wasn't anywhere around it

can't blame me, ya hear?

[Zoeisright]

55. The world has always been fucked up.

As long as people have been living in it.

[seabeyond]

56. i think, last decade and half, our world changed so hugely with internet

and world connection and everything effects everybody. also it is all new, a huge ass experiment. in some areas it is kick ass. in some areas, not so kick ass. and some areas unhealthy

[tridim]

57. I'm bet every civilization goes though a crazy period right after the Internet is invented

It's really an interesting time to be alive.

[seabeyond]

73. and the interaction of connection is not just with the internet though it is. that goes with corps

corporations, and everything else connected worldwide. be it banking, uprising, jobs/market, communication/interaction... all has become strongly effected by what is happening in the rest of the world.

that is a HUGE adjustment for all of us.

[callous taoboy]

58. Humans are viruses with legs. Bill Hicks

[Amonester]

59. Old news.

WWII and Vietnam still don't rank second to this.

Look at the positive sides from time to time, even if, due to the depletion of vital resources, we may have seen nothing yet.

[Zorra]

60. Greed, hate and ignorance. nt

[AsahinaKimi]

61. Life is strife ..

Hey, would a boring day be so bad?

[in_cog_ni_to]

63. Because Repukes inhabit the Earth.

Simple. Just think about how wonderful the world would be if they weren't here.

[Blue-Jay]

64. Somehow, I suspect that it's Guy Lombardo's fault.

[jberryhill]

65. Compared to what, or when?

It all started when they broke up the phone company.

It's been downhill ever since.

[HEyHEY]

67. Bound to happen some time. Then it'll go peaceful, then crazy again.

[Still Blue in PDX]

68. Because our kids are becoming the kids we used to see on the World Vision commercials

and nobody is adopting us.

As a baby boomer, I never thought I'd see the United States become a third world country.

[Kablooie]

70. Because next year is 2012 and the world will end. Bye.

[Rex]

71. Time.

2012.

Return of the Great Ottus.

Lucifer's Hammer.

Chicken pox.

The Supreme Court of The United States decided a federal election in 2000 that ripped the world a new asshole and his name was Dick Cheney.



My money is on the last reason.

[deacon]

72. It's a GW Bush hangover. n/t

[Overseas]

74. Feels much worse due to GOP cruelty here at home.

GOP going full steam ahead with their attempts to increase the misery index and discourage Democratic voters for 2012.

They knew we had too many old fashioned "New Democrats" who would pretend the GOP was still reasonable even after they crashed our economy and took full advantage. Got the New Democrats to deny a desperate population the Medicare for All that other countries have, and to weaken the stimulus programs and even extend tax cuts on the richest whose income had already soared for decades.

It worked in 2010-- the GOP got to slip in their GOP governors swat team to amp up the misery still further.

[Phoonzang]

75. Evil corporate-fascist, Mongol, baby eaters, hopped up on GM corn are designing

union and innocent civilian-seeking missiles in their secret underground lairs under the icecaps and glaciers where they're also breeding giant mosquitoes that suck all the oil out the ground in harmless Arab nations and excrete radioactive clouds over playgrounds BLLLLAAARRRRRRR!!!!111!!!! CORPORATIONS!

Did I go to far there? Sorry...just trying to fit in at DU. O8)

[Ikonoklast]

76. You ain't see nothin' yet.

If you think things in this country are fucked up, this is just the start.

[Fly by night]

77. Becasue cogent argument has been reduced to 5 second sound bites, with the word "fuck" in them.

Just sayin'.

[Modern_Matthew]

79. Because there's a battle...

And no one knows what it's for or how it will end. All we know is we we were born into the battlefield, nothing in hand, and given crumbs until death. If we work really hard and persevere then maybe one day we'll run the crumb factory, but now the crumb factory is full of poison, surrounded by even more lethal substances. Don't breathe the air, just contribute to the war, and cross your fingers the banks and insurance companies won't write you off as collateral.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

80. Because Obama is the anti-Christ and we're heading towards the "Tribulation"

:sarcasm::sarcasm: