Comments on: Scarring a Community http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/ Under-reported news by a Portuguese-American, activist-journalist based in Amsterdam. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DROCK http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/comment-page-1/#comment-162147 DROCK Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:55:20 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/#comment-162147 People are scolded for using the Rome/US comparison not because it’s way edgy and thoughtful but because it’s wholly inaccurate and detracts from any serious discussion of the important issue (health care) you brought up. The comparison is convenient and melodramatic, nothing more. If a hospital closes in 2008 in the United States a more accurate and useful comparison would be to look at how the hospital function for so long the decades before it closure and find out what the difference are now. Visigoths, Vandals, Caligula and Hannibal’s freaking elephants don’t add much to the conversation. People are scolded for using the Rome/US comparison not because it’s way edgy and thoughtful but because it’s wholly inaccurate and detracts from any serious discussion of the important issue (health care) you brought up.

The comparison is convenient and melodramatic, nothing more.

If a hospital closes in 2008 in the United States a more accurate and useful comparison would be to look at how the hospital function for so long the decades before it closure and find out what the difference are now. Visigoths, Vandals, Caligula and Hannibal’s freaking elephants don’t add much to the conversation.

]]> By: bicyclemark http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/comment-page-1/#comment-162142 bicyclemark Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:36:34 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/#comment-162142 a very valid comparison and one that, it seems, you're not allowed to make as everyone will scold you for even suggesting that America is on the decline or has collapsed. a very valid comparison and one that, it seems, you’re not allowed to make as everyone will scold you for even suggesting that America is on the decline or has collapsed.

]]> By: Rogue Genius http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/comment-page-1/#comment-162141 Rogue Genius Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:33:54 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/#comment-162141 Posts like this often make me think of Rome. Romans were secure in the knowledge that they were the most powerful and prosperous people on the planet. Good things happed. Bad things happened. Constantine the 'Great' moved the capital to Istanbul. No biggie. Nothing collapsed. Society didn't fall apart. The barbarian hordes could easily be repelled... ... and then suddenly, one day, they couldn't. As Rome was being sacked I wonder how many Romans pondered exactly at what point they ceased to be what they once were. It was a subtle change. Not one that was readily visible. Did some of them realize suddenly that: "oh, now that I think about it we've been on borrowed time for decades." Has the US already fallen? Are we just waiting for that last push? Depressing thought. I love America. When it's gone we will really have lost something. Posts like this often make me think of Rome. Romans were secure in the knowledge that they were the most powerful and prosperous people on the planet. Good things happed. Bad things happened. Constantine the ‘Great’ moved the capital to Istanbul. No biggie. Nothing collapsed. Society didn’t fall apart. The barbarian hordes could easily be repelled…

… and then suddenly, one day, they couldn’t. As Rome was being sacked I wonder how many Romans pondered exactly at what point they ceased to be what they once were. It was a subtle change. Not one that was readily visible. Did some of them realize suddenly that: “oh, now that I think about it we’ve been on borrowed time for decades.”

Has the US already fallen? Are we just waiting for that last push?

Depressing thought. I love America. When it’s gone we will really have lost something.

]]> By: Chris Weagel http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/comment-page-1/#comment-162140 Chris Weagel Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:58:53 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/#comment-162140 Collapse of the US is absolutely right. It doesn't have to be this way, in fact there are many of us working towards reversing it. But the sad reality is that for the vast majority of Americans, we can't be bothered to climb out of our own shit. Collapse of the US is absolutely right.

It doesn’t have to be this way, in fact there are many of us working towards reversing it.

But the sad reality is that for the vast majority of Americans, we can’t be bothered to climb out of our own shit.

]]> By: keith http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/comment-page-1/#comment-162139 keith Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:49:09 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/#comment-162139 harry... harry potter... harry… harry potter…

]]> By: Nick http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/comment-page-1/#comment-162137 Nick Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:47:12 +0000 http://citizenreporter.org/2008/03/scarring-a-community/#comment-162137 This news is depressing. Sometimes living in the US sucks. This news is depressing. Sometimes living in the US sucks.

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