02-17-2020, 09:24 PM
The cheap plastic stuff will also go. To be sure, much of it goes into packaging -- but it it is only a matter of time before most states ban plastic bags for groceries and dry goods, and people recognize the cheap plastic stuff as irredeemably awful. We are entering the age in which scarcity is itself dying, and shoddy stuff will no longer be welcome.
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.