Something changed in our global and economic system at the turn of the 70s. The late 70's and early 80's were really a high point for global utopianianism. Sin

Something changed in our global and economic system at the turn of the 70s. The late 70's and early 80's were really a high point for global utopianianism. Since then the balance of power between the people and the state has shifted towards the latter at quite an incredible speed over the last 30 years. Concentration of tremendous wealth in the hands of large corporations and a few individuals and the seeming impotence of the political system to keep them in check has always been a recipe for disaster. The amount of money spent by the state for instance on surveillance just gets millions more 'uniforms' vested in the state. Security deparments keep getting beefed up. And money being throw around by think tanks into the academic sector, especially economics, and cultivating the mainstream press with all of them parroting a similar message and ideology all point towards a fundamental regression of democratic principles. Just the amount of double speak over the last 5 years is astounding. Sometime arrogance presumes control but its only a shaky interlude before things completely unravel.