12-06-2020, 09:57 PM
What will be missing?
1. Speculative booms. There are plenty of other legitimate ways to seek a living, most of them honorable and requiring some form of work. Speculative booms are really catastrophes in the making, but that does not seem so obvious to people see them as the Only Game in Town.
2. Shock jocks. There was Joe Pyne and there was Morton Downey, Jr. ... but the likes of Rash Libel and Sean Hannity are finding their once-large audiences trickle away. Like Howard Stern (who seems not to be so political) they get boring over time.
3. You fill in.
1. Speculative booms. There are plenty of other legitimate ways to seek a living, most of them honorable and requiring some form of work. Speculative booms are really catastrophes in the making, but that does not seem so obvious to people see them as the Only Game in Town.
2. Shock jocks. There was Joe Pyne and there was Morton Downey, Jr. ... but the likes of Rash Libel and Sean Hannity are finding their once-large audiences trickle away. Like Howard Stern (who seems not to be so political) they get boring over time.
3. You fill in.
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.