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While I am not a pessimist in general, I occasionally do make observations that lead me to believe that as a society we are in a state of decline.

I had planned on a few paragraphs highlighting specific observations that help shape my conclusions, but I think a single web page that I found does a perfect job of driving my point home.

Not only did someone think these particular instructions would come in handy for someone, but there's a fair chance that some number of people probably have this bookmarked.

You can't make this stuff up.

According to the top of the page, this handy do-it-yourself guide required 45 contributors to get it right.

The icing on the cake?  "Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 74,145 times."

...and jesus wept