"We substituted the illusion of growth and prosperity for real growth and prosperity.
The bill is now due.
America’s most dangerous enemies are not Islamic radicals but those who sold us the perverted ideology of free-market capitalism and globalization.
They have dynamited the very foundations of our society.
In the 17th century these speculators would have been hung.
Today they run the government and consume billions in taxpayer subsidies"..
By: Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times..
“A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies,” Hedges writes.
“And we are dying now. …
Those who cling to fantasy in times of despair and turmoil inevitably turn to demagogues and charlatans to entertain and reassure them. …”
As bad as things are now—the disconnectedness, fragmentation, loneliness, im- and a-morality–
we can extrapolate, interpret the trend lines, read history, and find worse to come"...
h/t rockingjude
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