Now. If we can only make folks see the bigger picture as to why.
Sure, we, as a nation, have been front and center in putting the pedal to the metal, so to speak, on the whole, let's let electrified experience retrieval run amok, and thus insinuate itself into the very fabric of a once quite mechanistic system. A quite mechanistic system. Segmented. Linear, and not used at all to dealing with multiple threads at the same time. Something that I believe speaks to the typographic nature of Capitalism's success, even if its not fully responsible for its actual creation.
We did that, also in my view, because we let the frontier spirit, and too much "Manifest Destiny," take whatever sense of balance was left, at the beginning of the 1800s especially, away from us; so that personal attainment, and supposed mastery of "natural resources" (quoted here because, in this context, these are things wasted if not exploited, for the good of industry as a whole in one sense certainly, but not at all limited to that) become one and the same thing. And after that, as well as in conjunction with, the steam engine, and the telegraph, did we get the beginnings of "Robber Baronism." A model I believe is still quite popular to this day.
The bottom line here, however, remains the same in my view: Capitalism is broken. But it is broken so severely, and so fundamentally, that it cannot possibly be fixed. No more than you could fix the original version of Windows to work in today's operating environment. As such there can be do doubt now that it has to be replaced. The only question then left is to what.
How America Broke Its Economy
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[Post Note: This one is just to remind you about how real this whole "change in instrumentality" thing is. J.V.]
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