For one, it's hyper normalization. Just like in Adam Curtis' film, as the soviet union was collapsing economically, everybody knew it. But, nobody knew what to do about it. So if the leader said "go about business as usual", then that's what a lot of people did. We have no alternative that makes sense to enough people for it to become a thing.
And second, airports should stop the TSA checkpoints now. What's the point? To stop another 9/11? That's just three days worth of covid deaths. Put that department to better use. How about taking people's temperatures when they enter the airport instead. Airplanes are being flown with no empty seats. The numbers are so high because people are catching it everywhere. They're getting it on planes, in schools, in restaurants, at work. Our organized efforts to stop this are pathetic to non-existent.
The US has spent the past 40 years defunding, deregulating and privatizing every industry it has ever had that offered safety nets. The pillars of neoliberalism. As a result of getting rid of everything, they just up the military, police and security budgets. We could easily have healthcare by cutting a chunk of the military's inflated budget but that will never happen.
. Just like in Adam Curtis’ film, as the soviet union was collapsing economically, everybody knew it.
For some reason I don't see this enough. Y'know, a lot of analysts in the 70's and 80's thought that the US and USSR were starting to look very similar in how they operated. That idea was "disproven" when the USSR collapsed but honestly I think that it was correct, we just had some more gas in the tank to keep on keeping on for a bit longer but I think we're gonna go down the same way
True to a degree. Both sides lied about the USSR being socialist. The soviets, because it was popular amongst their people; and the Americans because it was not popular. (Credit to chomsky.)
We don't even need a TSA at this point. Why is anyone flying besides critical work, where you can easily just do extra screening anyway? That's a prime example of a state organization that could have been re-directed for 3-4 weeks to actually deliver food to people or do other shit back in March/April to get a hold on things.
For one, it's hyper normalization. Just like in Adam Curtis' film, as the soviet union was collapsing economically, everybody knew it. But, nobody knew what to do about it. So if the leader said "go about business as usual", then that's what a lot of people did. We have no alternative that makes sense to enough people for it to become a thing.
And second, airports should stop the TSA checkpoints now. What's the point? To stop another 9/11? That's just three days worth of covid deaths. Put that department to better use. How about taking people's temperatures when they enter the airport instead. Airplanes are being flown with no empty seats. The numbers are so high because people are catching it everywhere. They're getting it on planes, in schools, in restaurants, at work. Our organized efforts to stop this are pathetic to non-existent.
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The US has spent the past 40 years defunding, deregulating and privatizing every industry it has ever had that offered safety nets. The pillars of neoliberalism. As a result of getting rid of everything, they just up the military, police and security budgets. We could easily have healthcare by cutting a chunk of the military's inflated budget but that will never happen.
We're headed towards collapse indeed.
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For some reason I don't see this enough. Y'know, a lot of analysts in the 70's and 80's thought that the US and USSR were starting to look very similar in how they operated. That idea was "disproven" when the USSR collapsed but honestly I think that it was correct, we just had some more gas in the tank to keep on keeping on for a bit longer but I think we're gonna go down the same way
The CIA had a big incentive to exaggerate the "threat" of the USSR in order to continue to justify their mission.
True to a degree. Both sides lied about the USSR being socialist. The soviets, because it was popular amongst their people; and the Americans because it was not popular. (Credit to chomsky.)
We don't even need a TSA at this point. Why is anyone flying besides critical work, where you can easily just do extra screening anyway? That's a prime example of a state organization that could have been re-directed for 3-4 weeks to actually deliver food to people or do other shit back in March/April to get a hold on things.