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Kevin Micchelli's avatar

It is a gift we get to learn from you thank you

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Steve Pecile's avatar

Another excellent piece. Because of my background, I might be more inclined to see this as the inevitable late stages of capitalism. Of course that alone doesn't explain everything. You so eloquently sprinkle in the uniquely American ingredients that have lead to this stage, but the end result is largely driven, IMO, by the relentless profiteering and the legitimation required to facilitate it. It eventually destabilizes society to the point where the majority find it increasingly hard to stay tethered to some communal sense of truth and subsequently and, to a large extent, unconsciously also lose a sense of their collective power. It is in that instant that authoritarians begin to arise. And we now see that has begun to appear in the wealthiest and allegedly most 'democratic' of nations. Tyranny isn't just for poor countries anymore.

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