More essays from the author's website, Fred on Everything; acid, hilarious, philosphical, or all thrtee at once. He chronicles the decline of everthing as America, he says, marches bravely into the Fifth Century. Literacy dies, civility withers, common sense utters its death rattle. Music decays into urban grunting and the youhg dress to mimic the contents of a dumpster. College graduates count on their fingers. The future is "darker than an anchorman's mind, " he says with deep contentment. Curmudgeons, he asserts, are happiest with rot and decline, and the present is their godlen age. Read Curmudgeing Through Paradise and enjoy the collapse. It's going to happen anyway.