Maybe it's just our inner "eternal pessimist" that draws us to decay. A node acknowledging that everything is eventually destined to fail or die, combined with a slightly morbid fascination to catch an glimpse of the workings of Mr. Grim Reaper. Last Sunday's Pearls before Swine comic provided a pretty good definition:
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/070415/...media/20071504 Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger Hicks 
Unlike (I suspect) communism. I'd be surprised if it makes its 200th birthday (dating from Marx's manifesto). Even so, communist iconography (like Nazi iconography) can be visually magnificent, as long as you can divorce it from its ideology.
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Respectfully have to disagree somewhat with the nature of your statement (without going into a lenghty discussion). I find it a bit off the mark to throw communism into the same pot as the Nazis, sorry. I grew up in one of the communist labeled countries, and while I can't say that it was all roses and champagne, it wasn't all bad either and certainly had nothing in common with nazi ideology (actually, I lived a pretty good life in the former GDR without the need having to be a communist). Any ideology can be warped, abused and misused by people in power if they are bent on doing so (Mao, Stalin, and a few more recent ones which I won't name) to fit their own agendas (power, greed, madness), but please don't generalize with a broad brush across the spectrum.
Chris