11-20-2020, 12:32 PM
Without question this is extremely callous behavior, inexcusable in a country in which (allegedly) the Judeo-Christian ethic that mandates that people cherish life prevails. The callous culture obviously existed before COVID-19; nobody at the top saw anything wrong until a lawsuit was initiated.
We Americans have been getting food at freakishly-low costs at the checkout, but all too often we forget why it is so cheap. Efficiency in farming? Sure -- because farm policies promote consolidation of what were family farms into giant plantations. Efficiency in processing? Because the health of workers in food-processing plants does not matter.
The Romans had cheap entertainment because they could find plenty of people to sacrifice inexpensively (POW's, slaves that a master was willing to sell, and of course religious dissidents) for the sick games.
I'll take Pope Francis over Donald Judas Trump any day. And I am not a Catholic!
We Americans have been getting food at freakishly-low costs at the checkout, but all too often we forget why it is so cheap. Efficiency in farming? Sure -- because farm policies promote consolidation of what were family farms into giant plantations. Efficiency in processing? Because the health of workers in food-processing plants does not matter.
The Romans had cheap entertainment because they could find plenty of people to sacrifice inexpensively (POW's, slaves that a master was willing to sell, and of course religious dissidents) for the sick games.
I'll take Pope Francis over Donald Judas Trump any day. And I am not a Catholic!
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.
