The enemy is simultaneously weak and strong.
"You're not creative, you're not future-thinking, you're focused on threats in the present," he said, adding that those qualities could threaten America's culture of innovation. He noted that Mark Zuckerberg, a millennial, was 20 when he founded Facebook, but that Gen Z has only Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai to compare themselves to. Millennials, he argued, rebuilt the "entire world."
Yes and Meta is doing wonderfully right now, and surely capitalists think long term :lenin-sure: :this-is-fine:
Malala was literally shot in the skull and survived, what did Zuck even do? Create someone nonsense "metaverse" that no one cares about?
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-are-weakened-kids-social-media-oped-says-2023-1
Someone else go find the Parenti quote I already did it this week.
It took Muskrat decades and billions of dollars to achieve what NASA did with government funding in the 60s, and what Russia has been doing continuously since the 60s. Pretty much every useful thing America has ever invented came out of a government or university lab.
Facebook was a "hot or not" site that Zuck built to creep on women at his college, that happened to blow up for reasons almost completely unrelated to Zuck himself. And the major accomplishment for which it will be remembered by history is enabling a genocide in Myanmar.