It has bothered me that it seems like voting often ends up choosing between two “different” shades of off-white. In so many instances these governments are practically indistinguishable in actual delivered politics. But it makes sense now. They’re both into the same economic theory. “Politics” becomes just different shades of off-white paint on the same chair.
Another thing that is important about this bit, is that this Shock Doctrine involved DOING IT ALL AT ONCE. So if/when we see it play out in our countries it might be extremely sudden and everything at the same time. The basic idea was to daze the population. https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112656795524375437
If you ever think that one person can’t really make a difference, then think of Milton Friedman. He managed to wreak havoc on democracy on a global scale.
Economics is practically a religious movement, where their core belief system is based on economic models that they think up and discuss with each other at conferences. But the way they model is so extremely simplistic, and they infuse their models with mythology, with ideas of an intrinsic drive towards what is Good and Right. People. This is a religion. This isn’t anything that should steer politics.
This is not people we should take seriously.
Unfortunately, they have already created a web which is so tightly integrated into our societies now. I am unsure how to remove it.
These men ran all over the freaking planet to talk people out of creating just societies, and when that didn’t work, force them, and when than didn’t work, oust them.
And when I say “these men”, I mean a literal group of named men.
We don’t know where the road not taken would’ve led us, but these countries should’ve had the chance, and international support, to shape their own future.