Originally Posted by
Nicholas Laureys
Rip, I think we need to change this thread title to something like Tracking the Acceleration of the Slow-Drip Dismantling of our Culture.
I feel like a damn social anthropologist, sifting through all the small steps taken and signs of collapse that existed from the early nineties up until now.
Our country was like a typical guy starting out on SSLP, thinking he's making good progress on his squats, but then posting a form check and having a "Life comes at you fast" moment when he was told that, NO, his 355lbs. squats don't count cuz they're too high, and the bar is too high on your back, and you're too upright.
How did we get here? I guess just like our novice lifter, in the 2000s we managed to elect GWB and in '16 we miraculously got Trump into office, the equivalent of grinding hard through reps without realizing the foundation of awful form that we were continuing, nay, propagating, instead of re-setting right there to correct these egregious form flaws.
It would've been easier to fix those form flaws at 225lbs rather than grinding his way through reps up to 355lbs., and maybe it would have easier for our country to have recognized its cultural flaws and fixed things with Gore and Clinton wins way back then, rather than what we got.