Our Economy and Politics Are Broken
Awakening from the dream of painless financial / political solutions, we find the status quo is not the solution, it is the source of our decay.
Our situation as a society is akin to awakening from a dream of loved ones to the realization that they passed away long ago. Our economy and politics are broken, yet we continue dreaming that they are functional.
Let's start with politics. American politics now bears an eerie resemblance to pre-collapse Soviet politics: a geriatric, sclerotic, stuck-in-…
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