[lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why."

[Alan Rudy]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:01 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Is the ideology so pervasive that they can't even recognize their long term
> interests? Gated communities are not proof against tornadoes.
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> Joanna
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Andy Szasz calls it the politics of inverted quarantine - walling oneself
off from as many risks as possible and thus learning and doing nothing about
the roots of any or all problems... it's neoliberal consumerism, whatever
the valence.