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(re "stupid" and US industrial decline before -Sputnik- event: read Gods of Money.) > Fair enough, if I understand your position on (b) and (c) correctly it is
by eternalban 4y ago
(re "stupid" and US industrial decline before -Sputnik- event: read Gods of Money.)
> Fair enough, if I understand your position on (b) and (c) correctly it is that while there may not be much carrot in evidence, there remains plenty of stick?
Not my "position" - just observation. It seems to me a sort of super block fragmentation is over the time horizon. B.E. -> A.E. -> Oceania. Maybe the carrot bit is membership.
- 082349872349872 4y agoThanks for the GoM rec*. I count Brexit as having already established Oceania (it having marked Airstrip One's independence from Eurasia). * cool, this totally ties into my other hobby (online radicalisation): http://www.williamengdahl.com http://www.williamengdahl.com
- eternalban 4y agoHe plays fast and loose with some facts, but is hardly alone in that hobby. For example, he completely ignored USSR's occupation of Iran in context of Truman Doctrine. However, he does provide historical facts that were entirely obscure to me (at least) but have checked out, specially related to matter in the 19th c.