[lbo-talk] Infrastructure

[Wojtek S]

A follow-up thought.  Our economy is extraordinarily productive, so
productive that it not only meets our basic needs but also our most
exotic wants.  For most of us, these ants are entailed in the
"American dream" epitomized by a suburban MacMansion and most of us
ordinary grunts do not mind inefficiencies of, say, automobile based
transit or single family houses to buy our piece of the "American
dream."  The neo-liberals, however,  dream big - beyond Mac Mansions
and limousines.  For them the "American dream" is the lebensraum for
the elites, a hierarchical class society in which the Nietzschean
uebermenschen enjoy unlimited freedom of action on the untermenschen.
They know that they can buy that dream just as the rest of us buy our
little pieces of the "American dream," and if the price for their big
dream is sub-optimal performance of the economy, so be it.  Our
economy is very productive indeed, and a little inefficiency here and
there  is a small price to pay for the neo-liberal dream.    These
guys are fully prepared to pay for that dream with sacrificing
economic efficiency, even if that derails the trains, both literally
and figuratively.

It is not some "logic of capitalism" (whatever that is) - but actions
of specific social actors with names and addresses that are behind
this.  They have a dream and the means of pursuing it and they will
impose their dream on the rest of society if they are not stopped by
force (by which I do not mean force of arguments.)

Wojtek

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 13:06, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It does not matter whether there is a need or even money
>> making opportunity - this is an expansion of the public sector and
>> thus rolling back the "Reagan Revolution" in these guys' minds.
>>
>> wojtek
>
> Sad to agree.
>
> FC
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