Has S Hit The Fan this year?

[Anonymous]

yes

not yet but getting there

no

other

[Sour-rose]

Many times... yet i just spray the fan with a water bottle with cleaning solution and it gets clean after a while. <3

[Light909090]

Yeah I shit in the fan every year as a aprils fool prank he wakes up to a fan at his doorstep with shit all over it he’s the neighbor been doing that to him ever since I saw him Punch his kid In the face

[zagor]

Things are looking ugly.

But on the other hand things didn't look so good when Hitler was marching across Europe or when the plague was ravaging the Old World.

[Anonymous]

[nightdrot]

Voted D as the answer is "Yes," but it is a qualified "Yes." In part because of the open ended and somewhat vague nature of the question, Beyond that because we've been here before.

A little historical perspective helps.

In the 1960s and 70s, we had an era of race riots, a low intensity war, campus radicalism, assassinations, populism, "do your own thing," and political extremism. One need only mention Kent State, the SLA, the Black Panthers, the Kennedy assassinations, and the Martin Luther King assassination, Charles Manson or the year 1968 to be reminded of the recent past.

Then there was the small matter of a civil war. Four years of war fought to the nth degree. The result was over 650,000 Americans, killed at each other's hands. That is an ocean of blood that Americans did not even match in either world war, indeed in both world wars combined.

Speaking of which, there was the country during World War I. Aside from an unprecedented curtailment of civil liberties by the government, as Americans watched warily for German spies, there were cases of mobs tarring and feathering those they thought guilty of siding with the enemy.

Even in World War II, the so-called good war, when Americans were united by Pearl Harbor, there was bloodiest race riot in American history in 1943. Also in 1943, the United States lost more hours of work to strikes and other labor unrest - some of which became violent - than in any other year in American history. This, when the nation was rallying to defeat the Axis powers.

That is not to say that these are not difficult times. Certainly the effects of technology may be magnifying some of the splintering forces in the culture. That technology makes every event seem larger and unprecedented because we just don't read or hear about them, but see them. Further, the technology reinforces a ethic of instant gratification and puts every person in their own mental universe.

This has created a cultural environment of mutual incomprehension, heightened emotionalism and the discounting of reason over feeling. The latter being a problem in the best of times, but in the current context it is arguable that the nation has conferred upon itself more rights than it can handle.

As Burke said, "Men have no right to that which is not reasonable." A difficult argument to make in a culture that is ardent about rights, but no so much about responsibilities.

Still, as Adam Smith said, "There is much ruin in a nation." These things come and go. The tumult of the 60s and 70s gave us the relative social peace of the 80s and 90s. We've been here before.

The same applies to the world. Imperfect beings cannot - and never will - create perfection. Ever it will ebb and flow. Again as compared to what?

Is the world more or less "messed up" then when Jews were being thrown into ovens and humans were killing each other by the thousands daily. Again, perspective helps.

Besides, as John Cardinal Henry Newman said, "Spring passes into summer and through autumn into winter. Only the more surely, by its ultimate return, to triumph over the grave toward which it resolutely hastens from its first hour. We mourn over the blossoms of April because they are to whither. But we know that withal that April is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revelation of that solemn circle that never stops. Which teaches us in our height of hopes ever to be sober. And in our depths of desolation, never to despair."

[Asker]

There was also the great depression, cold war, 2008 financial crisis... history seems to keep repeating with slight alterations each time. No doubt there will be more where that's coming from.

[nightdrot]

Well, economics has been characterized by "boom and bust" cycles throughout history. I did not mention them because they are easily identified and usually - though not always - immediately recognized by those living through them.

By contrast, cultural shifts are often harder to recognize and yet - over the long run - of more profound consequence. That said, you are right, history has - to borrow a line - a habit of repeating itself.

[Anonymous]

O it can get a lot worse, read about the antebellum period and what they did to each other.

When either side is unwilling to leave the other alone there will be a fight sooner or later.

In our case the undermining of the security of former presidents has made it far more likely we will see a more conventional Civil War resulting from an existing administration refusing to turn over power peacefully.

A far better option is simply to break up peacefully and go our separate ways. But i don;t think our federal politicians on either side are prepared to tolerate that.

So the best solution is to strip them of their power practically by refusal to cooperate.

[HighValue]

It can't because the inflation is so bad, nobody can afford a fan anymore. :P

It will get worse in November though.

[Asker]

unless we technicians get together and craft an improvised fan in the homeless camp. We're in it for a rough and expensive experience. Time to ditch the plans for kids now more so than ever 😂😁

[Precipice]

People who think Sht has hit the fan aren't ready for what's next.

[Apologies456]

What’s next?

[Pterodon]

It hit last year with Biden’s disastrous pullout of Afghanistan

[AviatorTom]

It always does, let's not kid ourselves.

[exitseven]

No, things are actually pretty good.

[maximumpower]

Not even close.