07-31-2020, 11:59 AM
One aspect of this Crisis is the loss of many of the characteristics of the pioneer society in which land and resources were common, monopolization was difficult and unreliable, and organizations had not yet become so bureaucratic. Life is not as easy as it used to be for a middle class that becomes increasingly proletarian in living conditions as the economic order becomes more hierarchical, exploitative, and inequitable. To compel people to suffer for lesser rewards under harsher conditions requires repression. Where rewards for effort are slight, repression gets severe.
Note for example that suburban areas established to preserve such rural characteristics as low densities in housing have lost that character. Such manifests itself in the blurring of urban and suburban characteristics.
Note for example that suburban areas established to preserve such rural characteristics as low densities in housing have lost that character. Such manifests itself in the blurring of urban and suburban characteristics.
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.