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> California is rather like Saudi Arabia. Perhaps the key insight required to explain the 20th century. It has the force of truth: now that I see it put so si
by throwanem 2y ago
> California is rather like Saudi Arabia.
Perhaps the key insight required to explain the 20th century.
It has the force of truth: now that I see it put so simply, I struggle to understand why no one has been able to do so before.
- WillPostForFood 2y agoIt is a key insight, indirectly. The power of a falsehood to sway emotions on
- stevenwoo 2y agoCadillac Desert posits this about most of the American West, it was sparsely populated prior to the widespread usage of pumps for water and dam program (to generate electricity to pump reservoir water) of Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers. Those power plants and population growths might have fueled American productivity in WW2 but it also was a subsidized consolidation of farms under large corporations and rich individuals when it was meant to help smaller farmers. It's an older book with a 2017 update.
- AStonesThrow 2y ago[flagged]
- throwanem 2y ago[flagged]