Functioning brains are endangered species
But not extinct yet
Yes, so, how was ALL of this (read the laundry list in the article above) forgotten over the last 15 years ?
Among people I grew up with, all of whom knew this, or appeared to know it, today the same people are unrecognizable.
2 possibilities:
1. The system reversed/degraded everything, inverted every principle/belief that people formerly subscribed to, and nobody noticed.
OR
2. It’s always been this way; people never really held these beliefs. They were just sounds picked up from mass media, which included such ideas at the time, and parroted albeit with less interpretive reflection than is indeed evidenced by parrots 🦜
I’m leaning toward 2.
A small point about the article above: Russia does produce its own microchips. Not at 7 namometer (yet) but they have no problem producing their own chips.
And those relative valuations of countries (and companies) at dollar value are to be weighed: shareholder stock valuation in dollar reserve currency financialized economies versus material and industrial output
Here’s another list of things everyone used to “know”, or a list of officials who said outloud the same thing, which everyone knew:
Why even read beyond the first one? Well, but the list is endless, from the architect of the Cold War himself, George Kennan, to every high official in living memory, to every 12 year old kid riding a skateboard down some cul de sac, EVERYONE KNEW.
So what happened? How was the entire political/institutional establishment uprooted, set afire on the trash heap of history, and replaced by a political army of totally psychotic zombified automaton suicidal freaks, while NOBODY NOTICED. Seriously, fuck me, it’s definitely number 2.
But there’s counter evidence. Americans with a functioning brain are endangered species, but they’re not extinct, yet. Here’s one
Douglas Macgregor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Macgregor
…same in Sweden; I know at least two