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Idealists and others of our kind find examples continually where humanity succumbs to transient climates; forcefully claiming those climates as 'reality' and in turn creating a greater permanence of that climate validating their initially erroneous assertion. A slippery slope for sure. So instead of upping our education standards and holding those who will soon inherit the earth to those higher standards, we have things like this happen. I'm speaking of the change in rules that made Scrabble, Scrabble (a word you can now play...)

It's a light-hearted example, but enough to make most of us at least groan; a groan I appreciate, because this lowering the bar is a small shade of a wider shadow - one which speaks to contemporary morality, ethics, the self-esteem of individuals and the self-esteem of humanity as a single, dynamic organism...and all the implications thereafter on our politics and personal lives; which, in the end, are all derivatives of ill harvested spirituality-the source from which we draw our various ethics, politics, philosophies, etc. So basically Satan now owns Mattel is what I think I'm implying - (did that joke translate as funny as it made me laugh?).

PS. It also reminds me of The Apology of Socrates, where he asks, "Who is skilled in this kind of excellence? That of a man and of a citizen?" - who will train people to be people?! Us! And we're just greasing the bar to keep slipping lower. We may argue that this 'lowering' is (from a wider angle) the pendulum swinging and a renaissance of sorts is brewing amongst the quiet few who walk along laughing through the boisterous masses - but that is a vein I do not care here to follow.

I think this video puts it pretty darn nicely.

Yahtzee!

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