11-17-2021, 04:45 AM
Unless you have a specialized CD player for music, all you need as a CD player is a DVD player such as one that you abandoned when you went to Blu-Ray. It will also almost certainly say "Made in China" even of it comes from a brand that you consider American, Japanese. South Korean, or European.
Should America end up in a war with China, then the quislings will not be so much the admirers of Mao but instead people who want to live like aristocrats in a nation in which fear and poverty prevail. These people would love to have America become 'great' -- if your idea of greatness is an aristocratic order. Just because America has never been a formal aristocracy does not mean that we can't end up with an aristocracy-in-all-but-name.There will be no aristocratic titles, but there will be the glaring hallmark of sybaritic indulgence in a land in which 95% of the people suffer for 2%.
If we are to get higher pay then we must deserve it not only with high productivity but also the willingness to pay prices rather than buy schlock. So get your furniture from an honest-to-God carpenter instead of from a box store. Buy clothes from a tailor instead of from a department store.
Above all, folks... read, read, and read! The old classical standard of excellence remains. That still leaves copious room for people not "dead white males".
Should America end up in a war with China, then the quislings will not be so much the admirers of Mao but instead people who want to live like aristocrats in a nation in which fear and poverty prevail. These people would love to have America become 'great' -- if your idea of greatness is an aristocratic order. Just because America has never been a formal aristocracy does not mean that we can't end up with an aristocracy-in-all-but-name.There will be no aristocratic titles, but there will be the glaring hallmark of sybaritic indulgence in a land in which 95% of the people suffer for 2%.
If we are to get higher pay then we must deserve it not only with high productivity but also the willingness to pay prices rather than buy schlock. So get your furniture from an honest-to-God carpenter instead of from a box store. Buy clothes from a tailor instead of from a department store.
Above all, folks... read, read, and read! The old classical standard of excellence remains. That still leaves copious room for people not "dead white males".
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.