Moldbug writes: "50 years ago, Detroit was a thriving metropolis, the fourth largest city
in America. It had no presentiments whatsoever of any imminent disaster. Today it is a burned-out ruin, more or less. This is the sort of
objective phenomenon that, if you’re a student of history, you can’t
help but try to explain.."
Moldbug links to an old promotional clip proudly declaring that Detroit has "the best water of the world." That publicity point stuck in my mind, as I have been following the water quality catastrophe of Detroit and neighboring Flint, and the "National Emergency" of lead poisoning of their drinking water. How did that happen?
Moldbug's article brings to the foreground the nowadays inconceivable idea that government could be an instrument working for MY benefit, not for implementing some utopic nonsense or to win over the voting lumpen proletariat. The lucidity of Moldbug cuts like a knife' for example, he asks why San Francisco's school administration votes, year after year, for the expensive and complicated school busing scheme, trying to impose unwanted social equality while causing much inconvenience to everybody and specially the middle class they represent. I would think that the closing anecdote is imagined, if it was not so ordinary and everyday.
We need a modern Karl Marx who can make clear how society works and for whom. Marx founded a movement explicitly for the industrial worker class of England and Germany and without any shame proposed a dictatorship for their benefit. He had the courage of saying out loudly the word "dictatorship". Who dares today to proclaim that democracy is not working for us and that any day it may cause the sudden collapse of all, just like Flint and Detroit?
I am old man and past the age of politics, so Moldbug's ideas are just entertainment for me personally. I have known Detroit then and know it now, but no one ever had put the picture "before and after" so clearly in front of my eyes. It is shocking. BTW, last week we had a large Ethiopian riot in this country, I and my family were immobilized for four hours in the traffic, and the police did nothing. We too said nothing and did nothing, we accepted silently our suffering. We watched Black teenagers running around in the streets, boys and girls, looking as they owned the city and us.
Moldbug links to an old promotional clip proudly declaring that Detroit has "the best water of the world." That publicity point stuck in my mind, as I have been following the water quality catastrophe of Detroit and neighboring Flint, and the "National Emergency" of lead poisoning of their drinking water. How did that happen?
Moldbug's article brings to the foreground the nowadays inconceivable idea that government could be an instrument working for MY benefit, not for implementing some utopic nonsense or to win over the voting lumpen proletariat. The lucidity of Moldbug cuts like a knife' for example, he asks why San Francisco's school administration votes, year after year, for the expensive and complicated school busing scheme, trying to impose unwanted social equality while causing much inconvenience to everybody and specially the middle class they represent. I would think that the closing anecdote is imagined, if it was not so ordinary and everyday.
We need a modern Karl Marx who can make clear how society works and for whom. Marx founded a movement explicitly for the industrial worker class of England and Germany and without any shame proposed a dictatorship for their benefit. He had the courage of saying out loudly the word "dictatorship". Who dares today to proclaim that democracy is not working for us and that any day it may cause the sudden collapse of all, just like Flint and Detroit?
I am old man and past the age of politics, so Moldbug's ideas are just entertainment for me personally. I have known Detroit then and know it now, but no one ever had put the picture "before and after" so clearly in front of my eyes. It is shocking. BTW, last week we had a large Ethiopian riot in this country, I and my family were immobilized for four hours in the traffic, and the police did nothing. We too said nothing and did nothing, we accepted silently our suffering. We watched Black teenagers running around in the streets, boys and girls, looking as they owned the city and us.
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