[lbo-talk] War and Peace

[Dennis Redmond]

> I don't know if you were alive, or aware of world events, during the
> so-called "Cuban Missile Crisis," but I can remember a week of walking
> around the streets of New Haven wondering whether everything would blow
> up in the next 10 minutes.

I grew up in the 1970s, and had nightmares during the early 1980s about
the fifteen-minute-siren-to-Apocalypse. That's probably a significant
mass-cultural shift, i.e. a stream of just-in-time images versus a
succession of neo-national Events.


> Will multinational
> capitalism be able to arrange a nice, peaceful sharing out of the
> dwindling oil and handle a climate shift that will probably see Europe
> turning into Greenland and large parts of the agricultural parts of the
> world ceasing production?

Why not? Finland seems to be doing just fine, despite that short growing
season. France would just raise lots of reindeer. And the NHL would boom.

-- DRR