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National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
- qrbLPHiKpiux 7y agoThe lowest common denominator in all of this, then and today, are the people we vote into office. Local elections about 20% turnout. Presidential about 50%? The movie Idiocracy doesn't seem like satire anymore.
- ohithereyou 7y agoWe should be so lucky to get an Idiocracy outcome in this country.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmZOZjHjT5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmZOZjHjT5E
- secfirstmd 7y agoWorth pointing out that some places like Australia have mandatory voting and they still manage to elect some really terrible, racist politicians
- beauzero 7y agoA very interesting read. Propaganda seems to be constructed similarly using the communication tools of the day. The patterns are very similar.
- calais 7y agoEveryone but the most callous of businessthralls has felt, at times, the same reaction as Keynes elicits here, against the ugliness of a world turned by free trade and markets. Such arrangements of human desire (what else is a market?) do occasionally produce greatness and the sublime, but only with the mediation of a culture prior-to and underdetermined-by themselves, and amounting to nothing compared with the feelings of greatness and sublime that nation-states have proven capable of achieving: for example, the most ineconomic Apollo 11.