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Do we have any examples where such an initiative, starting at the government level, has worked?
by adamc 5y ago
Do we have any examples where such an initiative, starting at the government level, has worked?
- gumby 5y agoIn the USA: WPA, Atomic bomb, Moon landing, and most successfully development of the Military Industrial Complex, exultation of the military (integration into Hollywood, professional sports etc) coupled with the forever war system to channel taxpayer funds to friends in a way that cannot be unwound. It's hard to understand the public attitude towards the US military 1780s-1960s if you only know the 180° position from the mid 1980s onward. Great Leap Forward? Electrification of the Soviet Union? Elimination of the smallpox virus? Arguably the Cultural Revolution and, to a lesser extent the restructuring of German culture in the 1930s were extremely "successful" in that they accomplished their putative goals, and also had led to long term changes in those societies, though fortunately not the long term changes intended by their instigators.