……在陷入混乱之前维持现状。我们首先需要人们别再假装没问题，并打破那种厄普顿·辛克莱式（Upton Sinclair）认知失调——不再回避真正去采取行动。0. 《The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival》（帝国的命运与寻求生存，PDF，1977），Sir John 著 http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf 1. 《Empires — The Rise & Fall》，Renegade Inc. 出品（2016）https://link.medium.com/iYeIqeMVl2
…status quo before chaos takes over. We need people to first quit pretending that there is no problem and break through their Upton Sinclair-cognitive dissonance against actually doing something. 0. The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival (PDF, 1977) by Sir John http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf 1. Empires — The Rise & Fall by Renegade Inc. (2016) https://link.medium.com/iYeIqeMVl2
……为什么感觉两党除了“至少我不是对方那家伙”之外就没别的话好说了？）。民主终结于寡头政治。这又不是什么新鲜事。John Bagot Glubb 在《The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival》里就谈过这一点。我们的统治阶级正在展现出一个帝国末期统治者的典型嘴脸。他们争夺着前人积攒的财富，根本不顾自己的人民，也不管未来死活。
…why it seems like neither political party has a message aside from “at least I’m not the other guy”?). Democracy ends in oligarchy. It’s not like this is new. John Bagot Glubb talks about this in “The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival”. Our ruling class is showing the same patterns of those ruling an empire at the end of its days. Squabbling over the riches earned by those who came before with no regard for their people or the future.
……在陷入混乱之前维持现状。我们首先需要人们别再假装没问题，并打破那种厄普顿·辛克莱式（Upton Sinclair）认知失调——不再回避真正去采取行动。0. 《The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival》（帝国的命运与寻求生存，PDF，1977），Sir John 著 http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf 1. 《Empires — The Rise & Fall》，Renegade Inc. 出品（2016）https://link.medium.com/iYeIqeMVl2
…status quo before chaos takes over. We need people to first quit pretending that there is no problem and break through their Upton Sinclair-cognitive dissonance against actually doing something. 0. The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival (PDF, 1977) by Sir John http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf 1. Empires — The Rise & Fall by Renegade Inc. (2016) https://link.medium.com/iYeIqeMVl2
……为什么感觉两党除了“至少我不是对方那家伙”之外就没别的话好说了？）。民主终结于寡头政治。这又不是什么新鲜事。John Bagot Glubb 在《The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival》里就谈过这一点。我们的统治阶级正在展现出一个帝国末期统治者的典型嘴脸。他们争夺着前人积攒的财富，根本不顾自己的人民，也不管未来死活。
…why it seems like neither political party has a message aside from “at least I’m not the other guy”?). Democracy ends in oligarchy. It’s not like this is new. John Bagot Glubb talks about this in “The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival”. Our ruling class is showing the same patterns of those ruling an empire at the end of its days. Squabbling over the riches earned by those who came before with no regard for their people or the future.