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OgsyedIE 7 hours ago

Normalcy bias is terribly corrosive to good planning. We're a decade or more into an education crisis, health crisis, jobs crisis, geopolitical crisis, debt crisis, energy crisis, climate crisis and moral crisis to the point that we only pick one or two seemingly egregious things as the abnormal features and forget that the majority of the parts of human history after the invention of writing did not consist of juggling triaging the symptoms of society teetering over.

I won't know whether Klein's book will address this until I get a digital copy by some means post-release but the review makes the book seem myopic about how our modern troubles and cohorts of "baddies" were generated by the undercurrents of secular antinomianism that permeated the liberal democracy she's apparently conservatively yearning for. Can it even be separated from our absurd debt buildout and declining metal ore discovery rates?

RandomLensman 7 hours ago | parent [-]

There were always crises, I think.

voidhorse 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Cool, I guess we can all give up and go to bed then.

The propositions: (1) humanity has always dealt with crises and (2) absurd wealth and inequity gives those crises particular shape, makes new crises acute, and creates crises unheard of and (3) absurd wealth creates small, uneven amounts of prosperity; can all be true.

bryanlarsen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In other words, same as it's always been. The general rule is that inequality increases until a war comes along and burns everything down and levels it to ashes. The world has been relatively peaceful since WW2 ended so inequality has grown particularly egreguous.

The challenge is to figure out a way to reduce inequality without war. I hope everybody agrees that war is a cure worse than the disease.

We have a particularly inept executive that manufactures crises rather than solving them. This isn't the first such in US history.

RandomLensman 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Where did I say people shouldn't work on their societies?