02-28-2021, 04:14 PM
(02-28-2021, 11:43 AM)Einzige Wrote:(02-28-2021, 08:48 AM)David Horn Wrote: For the corporate elites, making their lives easier is adequate payment for the shareholder money they burn. Reducing the power of any potential adversaries is icing on their cynical cake. Why is this surprising?
What surprising is how comfortable left-liberalism are with this social arrangement and the function their institutional allies perform within it.
I think that's less true as time goes on. We've been buried in a 40+ year stretch of RW fundamentalism, and the nominal Left drank the Kool-Aid along with the Right. We'll see if that changes now.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.