You speak of the slaveship of fascism as if in a possible future. You said
We are at or near peak manufacturing in the First World because we need little new stuff. It's down to replacement (mostly of obsolete stuff). How many televisions, sofas, refrigerators, and cars do any of us really need?
Since the last Turning, America has been being groomed for the fascist slaveship... CONSUMPTION is the type of fascist we have become. CONSUMERS. As you say, when it runs out, when we can't reasonable consumer anything really further to RAMP an economy, we can't continue.
It began with the TV and the suburban automobile, children's toys, kitchen gadgets........ all of those things are from the 1950s origin. The FRUIT of the last Turning reforms. I say we have been living fascism for quite some time now. Only, it is stopping to work. We are slowing because we can no longer consume reasonable. The cellphone may have been the very last large consumer product to which we could be sold never-ending upgrades, etc. The IDEA of the phone. Yes, electronics will always be that. But the gadget-in-hand was the last. Everything is changing now.
THE WORLD is actually within this fascist plot. The whole world is a piece of the fascism. Where are the consumers? The manufacturers? The sellers? The distributors, etc. I think any reasonable person understands such a system cannot last. It simply cannot for the reason you said. But we go into it. I wonder if next turning will be isolation in response to previous attempts at high globalization ideas. I hope so. Those who speak as if things have no borders, boundaries or edges, they scare me.
We are at or near peak manufacturing in the First World because we need little new stuff. It's down to replacement (mostly of obsolete stuff). How many televisions, sofas, refrigerators, and cars do any of us really need?
Since the last Turning, America has been being groomed for the fascist slaveship... CONSUMPTION is the type of fascist we have become. CONSUMERS. As you say, when it runs out, when we can't reasonable consumer anything really further to RAMP an economy, we can't continue.
It began with the TV and the suburban automobile, children's toys, kitchen gadgets........ all of those things are from the 1950s origin. The FRUIT of the last Turning reforms. I say we have been living fascism for quite some time now. Only, it is stopping to work. We are slowing because we can no longer consume reasonable. The cellphone may have been the very last large consumer product to which we could be sold never-ending upgrades, etc. The IDEA of the phone. Yes, electronics will always be that. But the gadget-in-hand was the last. Everything is changing now.
THE WORLD is actually within this fascist plot. The whole world is a piece of the fascism. Where are the consumers? The manufacturers? The sellers? The distributors, etc. I think any reasonable person understands such a system cannot last. It simply cannot for the reason you said. But we go into it. I wonder if next turning will be isolation in response to previous attempts at high globalization ideas. I hope so. Those who speak as if things have no borders, boundaries or edges, they scare me.