03-25-2019, 01:18 PM
So can we have a Crisis that fizzles? Maybe the Crisis is nothing more than a test of an economic paradigm and the politics backing it up... that fails. So we end up going from a raw deal for most of us (and a harsh civics lesson instead of an apocalypse). The best that I can hope for is a social-market economy, one that produces well but also distributes the proceeds fairly. I can imagine far worse.
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.