07-10-2022, 05:11 PM
(07-10-2022, 04:01 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-09-2022, 11:26 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: Something I think we should all agree on: plans to curb global warming will never work if the poor end up with drastically higher prices.
Which they will if neoliberalism requires that government support not be available to them.
A cynical joke about an encounter between Brezhnev and Reagan in Hell:
Brezhnev related the old smear about the Soviet economy:
"Workers pretend to work and we pretend to pay them".
Reagan retorted:
"Our executives crack the whip, get real work, and don't even pretend to pay workers. They pay themselves instead".
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.