Give up hope? Or believe, as Krugman does, that in people there is enough redemptive energy to justify not giving up hope that the road to oligarchy we are on will not, in the future, be corrected.
For our great grandchildren's great grandchildren we can never give up hope the common sense of the common man will endure.
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumble puppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists, who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny, “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
In 1984, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.”
? Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
If a family inherits wealth the fortune will increase at a faster rate than the economy grows. So more of the created wealth will go to those who have inherited the wealth. Result? An evidence based drift to a repressive oligarchy.
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