This article is MASSIVE. My feed reader clocks it at an 80 minute read. Since my brain is fried from anxiety it takes me twice of the estimate.
I am trudging through it. TIL that the American president, Lyndon B. Johnson was a literal psychopath.
This article is MASSIVE. My feed reader clocks it at an 80 minute read. Since my brain is fried from anxiety it takes me twice of the estimate.
I am trudging through it. TIL that the American president, Lyndon B. Johnson was a literal psychopath.
He thought we could overcome problems by using capitalism. He was a true believer, not just a wealthy cynic. We would be the commies by introducing them to Coke-a-cola and blue jeans. We would solve imperialism by liberalizing previously occupied and having them join the world economy. He still wasn't okay with having an alternative to capitalism. In a way he was a further abstraction of problems, not a counter to them. If he had continued we would continue to see imperialism, just by more abstract means. And eventually we'd still learn that you can't have both, that the exploitation will be enforced by violence regardless of how it's sold to the West.
Yeah we only look back at Kennedy with nostalgia because we never got to see how he would inevitably have taken slightly different roads as everyone else, just to get to where we are today.