05-17-2018, 05:00 PM
The elites appropriated practically all of the benefits of technological improvement. But add to that that commutes got longer in time... and two more hours a day commuting is ten more hours of what most people consider pure drudgery.
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.