Micro, I once again find myself wondering why you are so antagonistically agreeing with me. You keep "refuting" my argument, by making the same damned point I am. Are you even reading what I'm writing?
What I'm getting it is that the time to become outraged, to 'revolt', to do all of those things you're talking about, has not merely 'come', it has not merely 'passed', it has probably passed YEARS ago. We are supposed to be outraged
now. We were supposed to be outraged
yesterday.Modern society as it stands today has been shaped, to a vast extent, by dead guys like Thorstein Weblein, and Maynard Keynes, and Lester Ward. They have created ideas that had later led other people - like Brandeis, and Holmes, and FDR, and Ben-Gurion, and legions of others, not just in America, but throughout Western Civilization to create social and cultural institutions which are incredibly, mindblowingly, Cthulhuistically evil, and they are already here. And even though these guys are dead, they are still in charge, far more in charge than people like you and me, even though they're dead and we're alive, and that outrages me as a person to a deep visceral level.
What gets me, really, that you seem to share my evaluation of the basic facts of this, but you don't seem to share my emotional evaluation about it.