National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
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National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
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Re: National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
#2The lowest common denominator in all of this, then and today, are the people we vote into office.
Local elections about 20% turnout.
Presidential about 50%?
The movie Idiocracy doesn't seem like satire anymore.
Re: National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
#3A very interesting read. Propaganda seems to be constructed similarly using the communication tools of the day. The patterns are very similar.
Re: National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
#4The lowest common denominator in all of this, then and today, are the people we vote into office. Local elections about 20% turnout. Presidential about 50%? The movie Idiocracy doesn't seem like satire anymore.
Worth pointing out that some places like Australia have mandatory voting and they still manage to elect some really terrible, racist politicians
Re: National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
#5The lowest common denominator in all of this, then and today, are the people we vote into office. Local elections about 20% turnout. Presidential about 50%? The movie Idiocracy doesn't seem like satire anymore.
We should be so lucky to get an Idiocracy outcome in this country.[1]
Re: National Self-Sufficiency (1933)
#6Everyone but the most callous of businessthralls has felt, at times, the same reaction as Keynes elicits here, against the ugliness of a world turned by free trade and markets. Such arrangements of human desire (what else is a market?) do occasionally produce greatness and the sublime, but only with the mediation of a culture prior-to and underdetermined-by themselves, and amounting to nothing compared with the feelings of greatness and sublime that nation-states have proven capable of achieving: for example, the most ineconomic Apollo 11.