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“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Let me tell you about the state of our nation: things are getting worse, not better.
Easily distracted by wall-to-wall news coverage of the latest crisis and conveniently diverted by news cycles that change every few days, Americans remain oblivious to the many governmental abuses that are still wreaking havoc on our freedoms: police shootings of unarmed individuals, invasive surveillance, roadside blood draws, roadside strip searches, SWAT team raids gone awry, the military industrial complex’s costly wars, pork barrel spending, pre-crime laws, civil asset forfeiture, fusion centers, militarization, armed drones, smart policing carried out by AI robots, courts that march in lockstep with the police state, schools that function as indoctrination centers, and bureaucrats that ...
The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The era of even bigger government has returned, and any remaining free-market system is simply out of date. They are full of promises and plans to set the world right, as long as they and the right politicians are in charge.
To bring all this about, there is need for “A New Global Economic Consensus,” or so we are told by Mariana Mazzucato, in an essay on the website of Project Syndicate in late 2021. Dr. Mazzucato holds a professorship at University College, London, in the United Kingdom, and is the founding director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is also the Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All, along with being on the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs. In other words, ...
