03-19-2022, 04:58 PM
(12-16-2021, 02:12 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is easy to see why a thoroughly-depraved capitalist order would seek to extend a 3T that endorses economic and social depravity. Easy money for a few and hardship for everyone else is great for intensifying the disparity between sybaritic indulgence and gross desperation. When the plutocrats get extremely callous about hunger, exposure, and exhaustion things are extremely and inexcusably bad.
Extreme plutocracies make proletarian revolutions possible when something goes catastrophically wrong -- military defeat and the breakdown of the credibility of the economic system, as when the warring state starves those who make the weapons and grow the food on behalf of the warriors. The warriors know that they will be the next to starve, so they turn against the current leadership.
Lenin's revolution succeeded when his revolutionary government started paying the soldiers and police. The Tsar and the chaotic Provisional Government had started to fail at that.
A 3T is at best a fun time, but it is one of cakes and circuses -- and cocaine and concubines. Crises can be over quickly, and when they are the 1T can begin. I expect America to be much more regimented in 2030 than in 1980.
Given your use of the word regimented, do you imply that you expect the US to become a strict and sterile place relative to 1980? I wasn't alive in 1980 & barely remember the early 1990s, so I wouldn't know what sort of freedoms people had in 1980 that they likely won't by 2030. I do know there is currently a drive for society to be less exploitative among my generation - something people didn't seem to talk about as much in the Y2K days. When some big corporation does someone wrong, the victim is more likely now to speak out negatively on social media for the world to see.