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All of human society is like this. We dress it up and call it different names, but it's just feudalism all over again and again. People who grew up in the US, i

All of human society is like this. We dress it up and call it different names, but it's just feudalism all over again and again. People who grew up in the US, in luster and afterglow of the post-war boom, thought that our 50's, 60's, and 70's was the way of the world. But we've fallen back in line with the rest of the world now, and the forced shift in the American perspective is jarring.

mach1ne 4y ago
In the Nordics, the welfare society was built during those decades. However, the system is steadily on the decline, though most don't see (or don't want to see) it yet. Perhaps there was something in the second world war which pushed idealists to the ruling classes of the society, allowing them to restructure it in the actual mutual interest, above self-serving sociopathic interests. Could it be that existential crisis prompts the elite-selectors to favor actual competence over political machinations? In any case, it seems a common theme in the West that the society built during the height of the cold war is currently being milked in every way possible in the interests of the ruling class, with nothing new being built in its place.