11-30-2017, 03:50 PM
(11-29-2017, 03:15 PM)rds Wrote: I think socialism is alive, well and hidden at the moment. Technological changes coming down the pike are going to require a whole lot of socialism, or roughly 7 out of 8 human beings need to be disposed of. It's anyone's guess how this is going to play out. We know where the 1% and their stooges stand on the issue, but I'm guessing that as the 7 out of 8 start to realize their time is short, they'll object in no uncertain terms. This will start to really play out in the next decade amidst the crisis, and I expect it will be the chief topic during the whole seculum.
The solution for the economic elites is to further concentrate and monopolize business and to dismantle the welfare state. it would replace welfare with debt-bondage that puts even more people at a competitive disadvantage in dealings with the elites. Basically that is a new feudalism, all the more horrid than that of the middle agers because of the technologies of repression and retribution.
Economic elites have much to fear when workers have nothing but the technological equivalent of the time of their chains.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.