pms:
> So your saying that those long generations of vast fortunes don't willfully
> exert influence on world affairs? That big capital doesn't realize that an
> ageing and increasingly unemployed US population needs to be "managed"? It
> took years of hard work to get the people to label progress as petty
> "political correctness". It took concerted effort to get women enjoying the
> benefits of feminism every day, to disown feminism. You don't think that
> certain elements in the US have worked toward disappearing the dreaded
> Vietnam Syndrome? One persons conspiracy is just another persons dream.
> And dreams manifest. Visions permeate whole bureacracies. They come from
> somewhere.
Don't they most likely arise from local interpretations of the class system? Feminism, for example, gradually loses is radical edge and eventually its character because its constituents and beneficiaries are moving into mainstream capitalism and becoming just one more interest group within it -- a "constellation of power", a set of people who want to be like the White guys and have the same stuff they do. The Vietnam Syndrome hinders those who want to enjoy an illusion of American superiority over the rest of the world, as well as Capital's actual practitioners of Realpolitik. Brenda was proposing something much more specific, organized, and intelligent. But our present official government appears to be headed by morons incapable of imagining, much less implementing, such elaborate schemes. Unless they're playing a very clever game, they seem to be so incompetent that one begins to wonder if some kind of coup d'état may not be in the wings.
-- Gordon