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The Others

Guest Post by The Zman

The phrase “third world” is one of those terms that will probably fall out of usage over the next decade. The Cloud People never use it these days as it is dangerously problematic for them. It is one of those terms that is now freighted with a lot of bad thoughts and bad memories. That and the term made the most sense in the Cold War days when the civilized world and the fringes were divided between the Americans and the Soviets. Most people under 40 have no idea what the “second world” even was so having a third world today probably seems like nonsense to them.

The term was coined by a guy named Alfred Sauvy, a French demographer. He wrote an article comparing the countries no one cared much about, with the Third Estate. It was an idiotic and ridiculous comparison, but it stuck and was eventually embraced by banana republics and African potentates. It got picked up by American radicals as a cause and the term became associated with the ass-backward crap-holes almost always south of the equator. That bit of noticing is what’s now very dangerous.

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PANIC – RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES – EBOLA IS GOING TO GET YOU

Ebola is going to get you unless ISIS gets you first. Or will evil dictator Putin start World War III in his efforts to take over the world? Or will Iran detonate a suitcase nuke in your city because they hate us for our freedoms?

Start wearing a breathing mask, run in circles and panic.

Miami Hospital Reports Potential Ebola Case

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