Randy Wray reposts an article about sociopathic capitalists outdoing Bolsheviks.
Same idea - gang power - just operating on a completely different level. Pointlessly.
"The whole sordid experience reminds one of a Soviet-era story."If J&J Sixpack, Russian or US, love their children, then they really must make the effort to understand this story.
I've heard people born in the old Soviet system say that they realized by age 12 that their whole culture was insane. Everyone knew it. It was in-your-face repression, despite unparalleled levels of STEM education.
It turns out that USA culture is now also insane. Just on a different level, that most plebes haven't even caught on to.
So it also turns out that it's not the little things in life that give one pleasure, in capitalism it's the BIG things ... especially those things that the victims don't even catch on to.* :(
I'm now wondering if some of the key differences between Russian & US culture are that:
a) formerly well-educated Russians knew from day 1 that they were being totally screwed;
b) ill-educated Americans (given a few iPhones, t-shirts & basketball shoes, junk food & soap; oh, and endless re-runs of IQ-depleting tv) are totally unaware that they're being totally screwed, impersonally & indirectly.Either way, it's now past time for further cultural evolution.
What we have now has sunk to Sociopath Capitalism. For when you don't care enough to ever tell the victim what hit them.
A sociopath, by any other name, stinks as depressingly.
So what is Capitalism? That myth that we can all be Aristocrats. Just on different levels. And what is orthodox economics? Well, it's just recipes & justifications for exactly HOW we can sink to that level.
This is no surprise.. For every step in evolution, there are parallel steps in de-evolution. In biology, we call that Phenotypic Persistence. Others call it Institutional Momentum. It's the same thing as people who enslave their kids & grandchildren ... instead of getting out of their way. It's an evolutionary dead-end. Dead Culture Walking.
* You'd have to have heard a certain form of old Soviet jokes to really get this irony. They had jokes saying that joy (or relief) comes only from seeing others suffer (more than you) in "little" ways, that may not look at all little to Westerners.
