11-11-2016, 06:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2016, 06:16 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-11-2016, 04:37 PM)Odin Wrote: I thunk S&H misunderstood the nature of the last 2T by overemphasizing the stereotypical hippie countercultural stuff Eric loves so much, which caused them to completely miss the greater trend the 2T inaugurated, that of increasing popular opposition to everything "establishment", and increasing resentment against having their lives controlled by paternalistic social-engineering. The Counterculture on the Left and the anti-government rage against the "Nanny State" on the Right are one in the same thing, the rejection of the social trends of the Great Power Saeculum, which had favored increasing centralization and control of society by technocrats.
The Millennial Saeculum can be summed up by "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
https://youtu.be/nGzkchO0t1c?t=2m57s
Yes indeed. But what if, The Prisoner was my favorite show?
It's easy to get things confused, and mix up today's racist or semi-racist libertarians with the counter-cultural opposition to the depersonalizing technocracy that Patrick McGoohan railed against. And for the oligarchy to exploit racist resentments and harness them to keep themselves in power. The oligarchy-- who doesn't want "every aspect of their lives controlled by paternalistic social-engineering"-- and who resist having their ill-gotten robbery taxed and regulated so that the rest of us are at their mercy as they pollute and destroy the world for their own greed.