Re: Plow horses
You'd be sickened by how many people write things like that seriously.
I wish to God it were possible to plop these idiots into the seventeenth century for the rest of their short lives.
Jerry Pournelle:
^Readers should be aware of Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead. Civilization is more fragile than most believe. Note that a true dark age comes not when we lose the ability to do something, but forget that we ever had that ability...^
Americans have developed the odd idea that we are naturally entitled to our prosperity, or worse, that it's all due to statism.