"If you pretend that all is well, you can avoid those consequences, and the goodies still flow, maybe not like in the past, but it beats a SuperMax, right?"
- I like to remind people of the eventual "What did you do in the war, grandpa?" Generations will be cursing grandpa's name. They're already doing it, generically, to the boomers. But…
"If you pretend that all is well, you can avoid those consequences, and the goodies still flow, maybe not like in the past, but it beats a SuperMax, right?"
- I like to remind people of the eventual "What did you do in the war, grandpa?" Generations will be cursing grandpa's name. They're already doing it, generically, to the boomers. But that case looks like another of the many division-making psy-ops to me. It seems too early to make sense as something truly organic and sticky.
"[I]f the Establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to buy off, whom to co-opt, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore."
- Agreed. Way past time to up our game. Unlike, apparently, 50 years ago and earlier, a public forum (like this) does not solve anything, except turning a few peoples' switches on. Certainly no place for tactical discussions, nor even strategic ones. Not any more.
"If you pretend that all is well, you can avoid those consequences, and the goodies still flow, maybe not like in the past, but it beats a SuperMax, right?"
- I like to remind people of the eventual "What did you do in the war, grandpa?" Generations will be cursing grandpa's name. They're already doing it, generically, to the boomers. But that case looks like another of the many division-making psy-ops to me. It seems too early to make sense as something truly organic and sticky.
"[I]f the Establishment is good at nothing else, it is very good at determining whom to buy off, whom to co-opt, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore."
- Agreed. Way past time to up our game. Unlike, apparently, 50 years ago and earlier, a public forum (like this) does not solve anything, except turning a few peoples' switches on. Certainly no place for tactical discussions, nor even strategic ones. Not any more.