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This is an atrociously optimistic view. The fundamental inequalities between the rich and the poor are more getting more and more out of balance. There is chron
by suprgeek 13y ago
This is an atrociously optimistic view.
The fundamental inequalities between the rich and the poor are more getting more and more out of balance.
There is chronic long-term unemployment, the Debt has ballooned beyond reason and Fundamental Liberties are under sustained assault.
So the "reinventing" might work out for a measured few while the rest have a hopeless, orwellian future ahead barring some serious course correction.
- fizx 13y agoWhile the present has bad spots, we've lived through the gilded age, japanese internment, slavery, trail of tears, etc. Good things and bad things are always happening.
- coldtea 13y ago>we've lived through the gilded age, japanese internment, slavery, trail of tears, etc. Having overcome stuff in the past is not a guarantee of othercoming other stuff in the future. To put it in another way, your words could might as well have been uttered by some roman, just before the fall of the Roman Empire. They also had a long history of "living through" troubled times.
- pikachu_is_cool 13y agoPlus, "we went through this before" seems to miss the whole point. As if it's not a VERY bad thing. As if we shouldn't be upset about it. As if 5-10 years of shitty life (or however long this is gonna last) is trivial; like we're all going to live forever or something.
- coldtea 13y agoTrue -- not to mention that some will even be, well, killed or severely affected by it. He mentions the "trail of tears" as something people survived, but how many died during that?
- userulluipeste 13y agoThe attitude may appear cynical, but it seems totally in line with the ideas feed to the public. If in the Hollywood movie the kitty is saved then it is not a drama no mater how many die, right?