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> We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system The idea that it was "very successful" basically comes from ignoring things like the Civil War,
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> We (the US) had a very successful, carefully designed system
The idea that it was "very successful" basically comes from ignoring things like the Civil War, and the idea that it was "carefully designed" comes from building a fiction around the output and ignoring the process that actually produced it (in no small part aided by people viewing the after-the-drafting sales campaign of the Federalist Papers as if it reflected a real coherent rationale that went into building the system rather than a marketing campaign developed for a particular audience for an existing product.)
- raincom 1y agoInteresting to see the Federalist papers as a PR campaign.
- throwanem 1y agoHow else would you expect someone equipped only from today to recognize the pursuit of rhetoric?
- throwawaymaths 1y agothe current us capitalist system is essentially a post-civil war system... considering the us started as a wartorn backwater in 1860 and wound up as the dominant nation in world by 1950 says something.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoIt says that WWII happened in someone else's front yard.
- throwawaymaths 1y agous was pretty much there by 1920
- dragonwriter 1y agoWWI also happened in someone else's front yard.
- throwawaymaths 1y agous was clearly on the trajectory with the great white fleet.