erronis
erronis's Journal"Why American and Britain are Self-Destructing" - great piece via Eudiamonics
How The Death Spiral of a Rich Society Begins With Austerity, and Ends With Poverty, Despair, and Collapse
https://eand.co/why-american-and-britain-are-self-destructing-a8693ebb097
There are only two societies in the rich world where life is getting shorter, poorer, meaner, and more hopeless fast. Where life expectancies, incomes, and savings are all falling. America and Britain. Where middle classes have imploded, people live hand to mouth, and upward mobility has all but vanished. Where the idea of living a better life is somewhere between a joke and a distant memory. Where entire generations of young people at last count, three, Gen X, Millennials, and Get Z live worse lives than their parents and grandparents. Just two such societies where trust, happiness, and purpose have all imploded catastrophically while depression, rage, anxiety, and suicide are all surging.
In fact, there are just a handful of societies with those grim statistics anywhere in the world Venezeula, perhaps, Russia, North Korea, war torn African shells. Failed states, in other words. That is what America and Britain are becoming.
In a failed state, progress has become regress. Thats what happened to these societies. They are self-destructing. America, of course, is further down that road. But Britain is catching up fast. So how did they get here?
America and Britain have entered a vicious cycle, a death spiral. Its a novel and bizarre phenomenon for a modern, rich society, unseen since Weimar Germany. It goes like this. In the 1980s, America began decades of underinvestment in public goods and social systems. It privatized whatever there was to privatize. The idea was that whatever it was healthcare, education, finance the private sector could do it better. The Reagan Revolution was in full effect as a backlash to the advances civil rights made in the 1960s and 1970s, the good white American using choice as a shield to protect themselves from ever having to invest in or mingle with those dirty, filthy subhumans. All that was called neoliberalism. Let markets sort it all out! Translation: let the strong survive, and the weak perish.
It's wonderful. I think men should be banned from any form of power.
Being an XY myself with loads of daughters, sisters, aunts, grand-daughters.
Women seem to have a much better sense of how to make this planet livable and our lives enjoyable.
Perfect. The amba$$ador has just witnessed the streisand effect.
How to call attention to something most people wouldn't know about.
Bunch of clowns in the executive branch. Thanks (r)epuglicons and russians.
Wrong. It's just pure greed and dominance. Ne'er do wells decide to go into religion
Not saying that Jesus the carpenter wasn't a good cabinet maker...
I've known too many people with too few skills that get themselves into a church and essentially beg for money.
Great thread. I've been umair haque's writing in Eudaimonia for a while
https://eand.co/@umairhHe has a striking perspective on our cultures.
Let's see. This is the reformulated SCOTUS with Anthony Kennedy giving up his seat for Kavanaugh
and Kennedy's son in Deutsche Bank being one of the heads of the unit that loaned trump money.
and Gorsuch being installed by Sen. BugEyes instead of Garland.
and the Federalist Society pulling strings.
that are being played by Putin.
Sounds like a plot line.
Ann Telnaes always outdoes herself. Brava!
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