10-06-2022, 02:21 AM
(01-18-2020, 08:32 AM)Anthony Wrote: As if to highlight my Doug Coupland skills, I have coined a term, "gentrefaction" - since it rhymes with "putrefaction" - to denote the economic cleansing of cities like New York and San Francisco.
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/0...-eviction/
The coinage "gentrefaction" suggests that the people deemed losers get removed only to be left with few opportunities to relocate elsewhere. Maybe we need to revive the manufacturing sector because that was the most reliable exit from poverty. Education came later.
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.
