02-06-2019, 10:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-06-2019, 10:56 AM by Hintergrund.)
OK, I want to make a list of them. Examples:
Politics:
Nancy Pelosi
(I would have added Jerry Brown, but he stepped back last month.)
Economy:
Warren Buffett
Culture:
Woody Allen
Theoretically, we're one decade into the Crisis, but those Artists are still alive and powerful. You know how Artists prefer diversity, expertise, complications? If they weren't in power, we probably would have seen simplification of laws, kicking out "experts" who failed to stop the Crisis, and a more successful nativist backlash.
But the powerful Silents are still around, and since they know best how to pull the levers of the machine, they prevent all of that. The Crisis is there, but we try to use dangerous post-seasonal Unraveling tools.
For a long time I wondered why the Unraveling didn't really seem to end. In the Financial Crisis, we rather should have made something like Glass-Steagall, to simplify things - but we didn't. That's why we seem to live in a combination of the worst parts of Unraveling and Crisis. People are worse off, but they don't gather and unite, and are even less willing to sacrifice for society.
Politics:
Nancy Pelosi
(I would have added Jerry Brown, but he stepped back last month.)
Economy:
Warren Buffett
Culture:
Woody Allen
Theoretically, we're one decade into the Crisis, but those Artists are still alive and powerful. You know how Artists prefer diversity, expertise, complications? If they weren't in power, we probably would have seen simplification of laws, kicking out "experts" who failed to stop the Crisis, and a more successful nativist backlash.
But the powerful Silents are still around, and since they know best how to pull the levers of the machine, they prevent all of that. The Crisis is there, but we try to use dangerous post-seasonal Unraveling tools.
For a long time I wondered why the Unraveling didn't really seem to end. In the Financial Crisis, we rather should have made something like Glass-Steagall, to simplify things - but we didn't. That's why we seem to live in a combination of the worst parts of Unraveling and Crisis. People are worse off, but they don't gather and unite, and are even less willing to sacrifice for society.