03-15-2017, 08:07 PM
(03-15-2017, 07:28 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-15-2017, 04:09 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(03-15-2017, 09:25 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-15-2017, 04:27 AM)Galen Wrote:(03-14-2017, 07:23 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: Yeah, I don't think a lot of progressives have grappled with what the end of imperium, "white privilege", and a shift to sustainability will actually mean in material terms, particularly for them.
They haven't. Truth is they have this nasty tendency to think in linear trend lines that last forever. Those of us in the real world know better.
This is a tendency that I've noticed with progressives on this board, and you'd think that on a forum about a cyclical model of history they would know better.
And yet the situation of excessive corporate power has held steady for nearly four decades, long enough to make it seem to be linear. Would love to be proven wrong on this one.
The situation of cheap oil lasted far far longer than a mere 40 years. Cars started being run on gasoline to use a waste product from making lamp oil over 100 years ago.
I wasn't referring specifically to oil when mentioning excessive corporate power. That began on a small scale late 1970s then accelerated big-time following Reagan's busting of the unions in the early 1980s and has been the Energizer Bunny ever since. Keeps going and going and going.