prosperity
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. ~What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. , universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. IslandAdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), SatiresProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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