Nothing beats it
The primary symptom of a dying empire is absolutely brainless perseveration. Never quit, never learn, never pause to ask "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE???????????????"

Just keep on doing what you're doing, and keep finding new ways to make ____________ happen. Never ask what ____________ is. Just do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do do and do and do and do and do and do and do

Life is purpose. Perseveration is mechanical purposeless action, typical of inorganic machines. No living thing can match a dying empire when it comes to brainless perseveration.

Prime example here in Spokane. North-South Corridor. This is a major bypass that was badly needed in 1945 when the Kaiser Aluminum plant was a major industry. Kaiser was up north in Mead, about 6 miles north of the city limits. There was no easy way to get there from the southern or central parts of the city. Thousands of war workers created terrible traffic jams.

After 1980, the EPA Terrorist Army and Free Trade reduced Kaiser to a small rolling mill. It's still there but it employs dozens instead of thousands.

THEREFORE we started building the bypass to Mead in 2000. Only fifty years after it was needed badly, and only twenty years after it ceased to be needed at all. Mindless perseveration.

At this point the North-South Corridor is partly completed, carrying two or three cars per hour. It's been stuck in this condition for several years.

Now a new obstacle, or more precisely a new excuse to feed the EPA Terrorist Army more trillions in blackmail tribute, has been "discovered". There's a gallon or two of leftover oil under the next section of proposed construction. THEREFORE we must build a 30-foot-high viaduct for several miles to stay over the few gallons of oil.

This makes sense if you're a dying empire. It wouldn't make sense for anything with the reasoning ability of a bacterium. A living thing would simply say

Close the whole fucker down, turn it into a Living Museum Of Imperial Idiocy. Build exhibits featuring Condon's Pits of Despair, Inslee's Glorious Arson, NYC Straub's perfect leadership, Arborist Perry's Exponential Murder System.


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Oil in the soil, highway in the sky .... Would make a good song. Where's Merle Haggard when you need him?

Labels: Carbon Cult, STRONG!

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