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Since I appreciate your list, here’s a couple more about the growing class divide. - The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class - book, Guy Standing - Listen, Lib

Since I appreciate your list, here’s a couple more about the growing class divide. - The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class - book, Guy Standing - Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? - book, Thomas Frank

airhead969 6y ago
Oh thanks. Yeah, the American empire is socially divided-and-conquered against itself and economically pyramidally-narrowing with ultra rich vs. growing favelas / ultra poor. Americans have to escape their ruts, become more unified, and act more sensibly, determined, and rationally to assert for a fair shake and better leaders focused on public works, reinvigoration, and better services. I also like: - Death of the Liberal Class - book, Hedges - Collapse - book, Jared Diamond - Upheaval - book, Jared Diamond - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1-6 - book set, Gibbon - Screw It, Let's Do It - book, Branson
- adamcstephens 6y ago
  Sadly, I don’t think we’ve hit bottom enough yet. Maybe when we do we can break from the cult of the individual. Though it can just as likely turn into civil war and bloodshed.
  - airhead969 6y ago
    I think you're right. Most people are reactive rather than proactive. In the case of long-term existential threats like climate change, this isn't an option and requires top-down, unpopular mandates that only get necessarily more draconian as the hole gets dug deeper. Hyper individualists who don't care about anything outside their lifestyle vs. collective community participants for sustainability; easily pigeonholed with pejoratives like conspiracy nuts/deplorables vs. socialists/communists/antifa. The related issue of power structures excessively dominated by the hubris of the rent seekers refusing to change because of self-serving greed: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK They're asking for it, and will only placate with crumbs, but will never cede power without a fight.

airhead969 6y ago

Oh thanks. Yeah, the American empire is socially divided-and-conquered against itself and economically pyramidally-narrowing with ultra rich vs. growing favelas / ultra poor. Americans have to escape their ruts, become more unified, and act more sensibly, determined, and rationally to assert for a fair shake and better leaders focused on public works, reinvigoration, and better services. I also like: - Death of the Liberal Class - book, Hedges - Collapse - book, Jared Diamond - Upheaval - book, Jared Diamond - The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1-6 - book set, Gibbon - Screw It, Let's Do It - book, Branson

adamcstephens 6y ago
Sadly, I don’t think we’ve hit bottom enough yet. Maybe when we do we can break from the cult of the individual. Though it can just as likely turn into civil war and bloodshed.
- airhead969 6y ago
  I think you're right. Most people are reactive rather than proactive. In the case of long-term existential threats like climate change, this isn't an option and requires top-down, unpopular mandates that only get necessarily more draconian as the hole gets dug deeper. Hyper individualists who don't care about anything outside their lifestyle vs. collective community participants for sustainability; easily pigeonholed with pejoratives like conspiracy nuts/deplorables vs. socialists/communists/antifa. The related issue of power structures excessively dominated by the hubris of the rent seekers refusing to change because of self-serving greed: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK They're asking for it, and will only placate with crumbs, but will never cede power without a fight.