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"You don't know what's been going on lately, but . . . but it's sort of uncanny. The country is full of rumors, all sorts of rumors, about everything, all of them dangerous. Disruptive, | mean. People seem to do nothing but whisper. They don't believe the newspapers, they don't believe the best speakers, they believe every vicious, scare- mongering piece of gossip that comes floating around. There's no confidence left, no faith, no order, no ... no respect for authority. People . .. people seem to be on the verge of panic."

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"You don't know what's been going on lately, but . . . but it's sort of uncanny. The country is full of rumors, all sorts of rumors, about everything, all of them dangerous. Disruptive, | mean. People seem to do nothing but whisper. They don't believe the newspapers, they don't believe the best speakers, they believe every vicious, scare- mongering piece of gossip that comes floating around. There's no confidence left, no faith, no order, no ... no respect for authority. People . .. people seem to be on the verge of panic."
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Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 23:43:54 JST Bethany Black
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@ReverendMoose oh absolutely! Most of us seem to think that this is inevitable simply because we got here, like we couldn’t have gone another way at some point over the last 100 years. Weirdly this passage from Atlas Shrugged has the best description of this current stage of capitalism and the hopelessness it brings.
Neoliberalism brought the idea that managed economies are bad, but just switched it from the government to the banks as to who would manage the economy

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