Not only the Progressive Party, but also Oligarch Republicans recognize that a dumbed-down, told-what-to think population is easier to control. Mass Formation (Psychoses), like WW II Germany, Italy, and other Axis Powers, is easier to install in a Socialistic Environment.
Not only the Progressive Party, but also Oligarch Republicans recognize that a dumbed-down, told-what-to think population is easier to control. Mass Formation (Psychoses), like WW II Germany, Italy, and other Axis Powers, is easier to install in a Socialistic Environment.
Like we (USA) had during the1940s Defense Production Act days. Consumption was directed solely towards producing war products. People gladly put up with harsh rationing to build and ship those 647,925 jeeps, most of which were destroyed (burned in their crates) when the atomic bombs eliminated the need for a ground invasion of Japan.
Now the bad news. we "won" [actually Russia "won") WW II by imposing total tyrannical control over the population and industry. Not "Democracy." Now we are deeply immersed in Corporate Capitalism, to help the semi or near rich and rich, and the Military Industrial and the Medical Industrial Complexes, not the population in general.
Guess what? Properly directed, the command economy is more efficient than our Kleptocratic "Representative Democracy." Opps, although not directed best, this is what China and Russia have. Good Luck to US!"
This is our #1 issue. We cannot rank anything higher than this issue. It is an issue we can and should all agree on. All political sides and all people.
It is like having a computer that has been hacked and corrupted. When we sit here arguing about hot button issues that is like arguing about what programs run better on the corrupted computer. NONE of them run better. Not until we fix the system. We have to put all of our attention on focusing the ACTUAL SYSTEM first. It's not that hard to do actually. We just need a movement. A decentralized one. And a plan.
Dr. Malone identifies the problem, but what is the solution? Our systems have been corrupted by regulatory capture and special interest groups - we can't expect the system to fix itself. We need a NEW idea. One that makes the old one obsolete.
If our problem is systemic corruption the best cure is radical FORCED TRANSPARENCY.
Mixing political and economic systems makes things more complicated. Being told what to produce and consume removes personal initiative and creativity at the execution level. This tends to be less efficient than when personal incentives or autonomous methods are used. The resulting products also tend to lack in quality even if quantity goals are met. Take Russian commercial aircraft - you don't see them outside of Russia primarily because of quality. China has many examples as well - cheep Chinese stuff. Note the word cheep vs inexpensive. Cheep has quality implications. Labor rates and production volume makes products less expensive, but at a cost to quality for fear of missing production targets. Production quantity is the primary metric in measuring efficiency (and revenue), especially in a command economy.
The political system is different altogether. Participatory versus Limited Democracy and the distribution of power therein. Russia is a federal, democratic state, but power is concentrated through influence and government channels. I'd characterize Russia more on the limited democracy side. The US is a participatory democracy where the democratically elected leaders gave away their power over the years to form governing bodies that are supposed to over-seen rather than directed. Unfortunately, the overseeing part is failing and highly corrupt. They operate with impunity because oversight is so poor or perverted by special interests. The US is a participatory democracy on paper, but operates as a limited democracy and tending toward a federation of government autocracies that are coordinated in action. Bottom line, the US government is broken and it will take both defensive and offensive actions to resist change.
There are pros and cons to a command economy. Arguably, if WW II had gone on longer, without any sign of winning, the War Production Act would have been subverted, and the few young men left at home would have started a second "black" economy with the many underutilized, man-less women. But in the short term, there was very little "wasted," (read leisure) time. This semblance of efficiency made up the missing entrepreneurial innovations.
At the military end, dedication resulted in a tremendous advance in areas like nuclear technology and radar.
I just posted on ZH:
"The Great Reset is Coming!
Not only the Progressive Party, but also Oligarch Republicans recognize that a dumbed-down, told-what-to think population is easier to control. Mass Formation (Psychoses), like WW II Germany, Italy, and other Axis Powers, is easier to install in a Socialistic Environment.
Like we (USA) had during the1940s Defense Production Act days. Consumption was directed solely towards producing war products. People gladly put up with harsh rationing to build and ship those 647,925 jeeps, most of which were destroyed (burned in their crates) when the atomic bombs eliminated the need for a ground invasion of Japan.
Now the bad news. we "won" [actually Russia "won") WW II by imposing total tyrannical control over the population and industry. Not "Democracy." Now we are deeply immersed in Corporate Capitalism, to help the semi or near rich and rich, and the Military Industrial and the Medical Industrial Complexes, not the population in general.
Guess what? Properly directed, the command economy is more efficient than our Kleptocratic "Representative Democracy." Opps, although not directed best, this is what China and Russia have. Good Luck to US!"
OUR SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED.
This is our #1 issue. We cannot rank anything higher than this issue. It is an issue we can and should all agree on. All political sides and all people.
It is like having a computer that has been hacked and corrupted. When we sit here arguing about hot button issues that is like arguing about what programs run better on the corrupted computer. NONE of them run better. Not until we fix the system. We have to put all of our attention on focusing the ACTUAL SYSTEM first. It's not that hard to do actually. We just need a movement. A decentralized one. And a plan.
Dr. Malone identifies the problem, but what is the solution? Our systems have been corrupted by regulatory capture and special interest groups - we can't expect the system to fix itself. We need a NEW idea. One that makes the old one obsolete.
If our problem is systemic corruption the best cure is radical FORCED TRANSPARENCY.
I beg all of you to read this:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/what-we-need-is-a-transparency-movement
Mixing political and economic systems makes things more complicated. Being told what to produce and consume removes personal initiative and creativity at the execution level. This tends to be less efficient than when personal incentives or autonomous methods are used. The resulting products also tend to lack in quality even if quantity goals are met. Take Russian commercial aircraft - you don't see them outside of Russia primarily because of quality. China has many examples as well - cheep Chinese stuff. Note the word cheep vs inexpensive. Cheep has quality implications. Labor rates and production volume makes products less expensive, but at a cost to quality for fear of missing production targets. Production quantity is the primary metric in measuring efficiency (and revenue), especially in a command economy.
The political system is different altogether. Participatory versus Limited Democracy and the distribution of power therein. Russia is a federal, democratic state, but power is concentrated through influence and government channels. I'd characterize Russia more on the limited democracy side. The US is a participatory democracy where the democratically elected leaders gave away their power over the years to form governing bodies that are supposed to over-seen rather than directed. Unfortunately, the overseeing part is failing and highly corrupt. They operate with impunity because oversight is so poor or perverted by special interests. The US is a participatory democracy on paper, but operates as a limited democracy and tending toward a federation of government autocracies that are coordinated in action. Bottom line, the US government is broken and it will take both defensive and offensive actions to resist change.
There are pros and cons to a command economy. Arguably, if WW II had gone on longer, without any sign of winning, the War Production Act would have been subverted, and the few young men left at home would have started a second "black" economy with the many underutilized, man-less women. But in the short term, there was very little "wasted," (read leisure) time. This semblance of efficiency made up the missing entrepreneurial innovations.
At the military end, dedication resulted in a tremendous advance in areas like nuclear technology and radar.