Well, we’d better adjust our thinking to the fact that the horn-of-plenty is shockingly out of goodies, and that no amount of financial hocus-pocus is going to refill it.
The general expectation in the USA since the Second World War has been for ever-increasing material comfort provided by an inexhaustible techno-industrial cornucopia, kind of a cosmic goodie machine. They respond to the circumstances that reality presents, and they take us in unexpected directions. Societies are self-organizing, emergent phenomena. Trump alone that is responsible for the chaotic paralysis all around us. It must be obvious that government is not only fatally beyond bankruptcy, but that it has also reached the stage of diminishing returns from over-investment in complexity that translates into generalized incompetency. We don’t have the mojo anymore to nationalize and centralize these sprawling activities. But the “money” is only an abstract representation of material wealth of one kind or another - energy, goods, resources, and delivery systems - and all that is becoming more of a fugitive presence in reality-based civilization. To put it simply, the money is not there.
America is not going to go socialist, it’s going medieval. But it’s really not where history is taking us. And the Left may even get a chance to try this wizardry after the next election. It’s understandable perhaps, considering how desperate so many citizens of this land are, and how desperation feeds rescue fantasies.
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The Left now promises redemption from these great quandaries with the tag-team of Robin Hood and Santa Claus ushering in a new golden era of free stuff. Those dynamics operate on feedback wheels of futility for which there is no happy ending outside of drastic changes in thought and behavior. That would do nothing, of course, to reform the patent idiocies of the gender studies departments or rescue the sorry victims of obesity and diabetes from their toxic consumption of whoppers, pizza, and slurpees. The proposed remedy is for the national government to take responsibility for running them and to make their services free to all. “Eds and Meds.” Both are now cruel bloated parodies of what they used to be, turning their customers into debt serfs and bankrupts, apart from their dismal failures of basic mission: to prepare developing minds for reality and to “ first do no harm.” And naturally it focuses on the two activities that have turned into the worst rackets in America: higher education and health care, a.k.a. Socialism might seem to be the answer to all this unfairness and indignity.
It’s not for nothing that they style it “social justice,” the cutting edge of an economic system called socialism - with overtones, of course, of settling racial and gender scores for good measure. In response to what has become a nation of shameless racketeering, vivid wealth disparity, and shocking destitution on display in city streets, the party of the common man seeks remedies in the redistribution of capital. Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page For your reading pleasure Mondays and Fridays
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