A 1T promotes conformity, including in results. Most people want much the same thing, and that may be the source of the conformity. The only people who do not get conforming results are those deemed pariahs or near-pariahs (think of Southern blacks or First Peoples on the Reservations in the 1950's) or self-exiling beatniks, mystics, and their kind. For neoliberal results to continue into the 1T, Americans would need a consensus in which the vast majority of people insist upon near-equality (if at a low level) among the proles with a culture of mind-numbing awfulness to which borderline-retarded people can relate. People would have to accept that their sole purpose in life is to enrich and indulge economic elites while obeying their demands.
Such is neither egalitarian, collectivistic, not rational. Such implies a social order in which anyone not part of the elite is broken, as if subjects in a harshly-run colonial empire. In culture, anyone who wants anything other than what the elites dictate is right for the masses is all that is available. It would well fit the stupid (just look at popular music: Top-40 hits are made for people with short attention spans.
The poverty which results from such an economic order would itself constitute child abuse. An educational system that fits such an order could resemble that to which the Apartheid regime in South Africa relegated non-whites: much of the emphasis was on cleaning and serving. Neoliberalism is not racist in itself, but it would intensify any disparities that already exist.
It would need to distort democracy into an image that one sees in a fun-house mirror in which a ballerina who has no excess fat looks grotesquely obese or in which a Santa Claus looks wiry. Systems that treat people badly are infamous for waging wars for profit and glory On the other hand a well-connected perv might get boys or girls of any desired age and get away with it.
Nothing says that the generational cycle continues operating quite as it used to. However unsettling it may be at any given time, the generational cycle may be all that keeps things from settling into a nightmare that nobody can shake. What is often seen as stability hides rot underneath.
Such is neither egalitarian, collectivistic, not rational. Such implies a social order in which anyone not part of the elite is broken, as if subjects in a harshly-run colonial empire. In culture, anyone who wants anything other than what the elites dictate is right for the masses is all that is available. It would well fit the stupid (just look at popular music: Top-40 hits are made for people with short attention spans.
The poverty which results from such an economic order would itself constitute child abuse. An educational system that fits such an order could resemble that to which the Apartheid regime in South Africa relegated non-whites: much of the emphasis was on cleaning and serving. Neoliberalism is not racist in itself, but it would intensify any disparities that already exist.
It would need to distort democracy into an image that one sees in a fun-house mirror in which a ballerina who has no excess fat looks grotesquely obese or in which a Santa Claus looks wiry. Systems that treat people badly are infamous for waging wars for profit and glory On the other hand a well-connected perv might get boys or girls of any desired age and get away with it.
Nothing says that the generational cycle continues operating quite as it used to. However unsettling it may be at any given time, the generational cycle may be all that keeps things from settling into a nightmare that nobody can shake. What is often seen as stability hides rot underneath.
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.