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Originally Posted by flstf
We have met the enemy and he is us.
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Wow, someone took me off "ignore"! (see signature for relavence)
Seriously, I think if you expand "us" to mean the human race at large, you're right. Also defining a time period would be helpful since I think that the most harmful thing to the US in the next 25 years (host's economic issues) isn't what's more harmful in the next 100 years (apathy).
One of the things that's always interested me about history is how often it's repeated. For instance, there was lots of voter apathy on the East Coast in the late 1800's and early 1900's, but voting percentages stayed high in that area. The reason for that boils down to fraud of either the outright variety (the dead voting) or of the more subtle variety (payoffs, etc.). That's not to say that apathy isn't and won't continue to be a problem, but more that it always has been.