Thinking of the "top ten" follies perpetrated by the Western ruling class during my adult life:
1) Deindustrializing/impoverishing/oxycontifying vast regions of the US out of an entirely ideological commitment to "free trade."
1) Deindustrializing/impoverishing/oxycontifying vast regions of the US out of an entirely ideological commitment to "free trade."
2) Making most of Western Europe dependent on Russian energy imports, out an entirely ideological rejection of nuclear power etc
3) Trying to extend NATO to the Don basin out of ... only God knows what.
3) Trying to extend NATO to the Don basin out of ... only God knows what.
4) Aiding and abetting demographic collapse and a mental health epidemics by embracing even the most pathological outcomes of the 1960s sexual revolution.
5) Corrupting the educational system by pushing universal credentialism and the politicization of education.
5) Corrupting the educational system by pushing universal credentialism and the politicization of education.
6) Creating enormous loads of public debt and implicitly debasing the currency in order to protect a phony financialized economy and vast unchecked monopolies.
7) Wasting trillions of dollars and thousands of lives in useless, grinding conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan etc
7) Wasting trillions of dollars and thousands of lives in useless, grinding conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan etc
8) Destroying the European unification project by depriving it of any ideal content and making it a tool of techno-bureaucratic control.
9) Splitting the US in two by promoting universal politicization and cultural/economic/racial segregation.
9) Splitting the US in two by promoting universal politicization and cultural/economic/racial segregation.
10) Starting world war 3 to cover their asses after people got angry about 1 through 9 (let's hope not)
Am I forgetting anything?
Am I forgetting anything?
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