With that in mind, let me take you on a brief trip through those three strangely intertwined tales, starting with me. To speak personally, I find myself experiencing three versions of that ultimate story: my own fall, the fall of my country, and the fall of an increasingly overheating planet as a habitable place for us all. The Rise and Fall of Tom Engelhardt (and So Much Else) So, unless we humans can alter our behavior fast, it looks like only half our story may soon be left for the telling. After all, every child knows that what goes up, must… I don’t even have to complete that sentence, do I, whatever your age? Thought of a certain way, decline and fall is the second oldest story around, after the rise and… whatever you want to call it.
Since the disappearance of the Neanderthals and the arrival of us, tell me that decline hasn’t been among the most basic stories in history. As Joe and his top officials do their best to live life to the fullest by working to recreate a three-decades-gone Cold War, even as this country begins to come apart at the seams, all I can say is: Welcome to an ever lousier version of the past (just in case you’re too young to have lived it). Given the things I’m now forgetting, there’s something spookily familiar about the decline-and-fall script in the history I do recall. It’s strange, if not eerie, to be living through the decline of my country-the once “sole superpower” on Planet Earth-in the very years of my own decline (even if Fox News isn’t picking on me). I say to any of you of a certain age, Joe included: Welcome to the club!
#SUPERPOWER 2 EDITOR HAS STOPPED WORKING MOVIE#
In fact, I’m right with Joe on that carpet whenever someone brings up a movie I saw or book I read years ago (or was it last month?) and I can’t remember a damn thing about it.
And believe me, when you reach anything close to our age, whatever White House spokespeople might say, decline becomes second nature to you.
After all, I just turned 78 myself, which leaves me only a year and four months behind Joe Biden in the aging sweepstakes.
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