"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
#OrgEU
#OrgIntlWEF
'Groene Gekte' = 'Green Madness'
#PhenomnDeprivationPoverty
#PhenomnDisasterFamine
#OtheringHateMisanthropy
"The Communist Cycle
Establish a new communist utopia
Say it wasn't 'real communism'
Rob or kill the successful
Starve to death
Force the rest to work for free
Run out of food"
#PoliticsCommunism
#NarrativeUtopia
#IRLHistoricalFigureKarlMarx
#ReasoningFallacyOversimplificationCausalReductionism #NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/despite-high-gun-ownership-scandinavia-remains-largely-free-of-firearm-violence
#1843_AChristmasCarol
"The Last of the Spirits attempts to use the structure of Dickens' fable to tell the story of two homeless street children - a brother and sister - who will become those same two children the Ghost of Christmas Present calls Ignorance and Want." https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/dec/23/ignorance-and-want-why-charles-dickenss-a-christmas-carol-is-as-relevant-today-as-ever
#MetaphorWretchedChildrenIgnoranceAndWant
#NMUSBreitbartWarnerToddHuston "As the issue begins, Steve Rogers -- the original Cap -- grouses about how America is built on 'lies.'
'I'm loyal to nothing. Except the dream,' Rogers says early in the issue. 'Here's the thing about a dream, though. A dream isn't real... I'm starting to think America actually has two dreams. And one lie. The first American dream is the one that isn't real. It's one some people expect to just be handed to them. And then they get angry when it disappears. When the truth is, it never really existed in the first place.'
He adds that the dream with the 'white picket fences' is a lie that 'doesn't get along nicely with reality. Other cultures. Immigrants. The poor.'" https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/07/04/marvel-comics-celebrates-independence-day-with-captain-america-saying-american-dream-is-a-lie/
#1776_USDeclarationOfIndependence4thOfJuly
#BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmericaSteveRogers
#NarativeAmericanDream
#PhenomnImmigration
#PhenomnDeprivationPoverty
#ToponymAsiaChina
#WebsiteRealClearEnergyRCEJoelKotkin "Like the rest of the country, although far less than New York, California is suffering through the Covid-19 crisis. But in California, the pandemic seems likely to give the state's political and corporate elites a new license to increase their dominion while continuing to keep the middle and working classes down.
Perhaps nothing spells the triumph of California's progressive oligarchy more than Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to off-load the state's recovery strategy to a task force co-chaired by hedge-fund billionaire Tom Steyer. A recently failed presidential candidate, Steyer stands as a progressive funder. He is as zealous as he is rich. Steyer sometimes even found the policies adopted by climate-obsessed former governor Jerry Brown not extreme enough for his tastes." https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2020/04/27/triumph_of_the_woke_oligarchs_490094.html
#OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyGavinNewsom
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJerryBrown i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown
#TheoryDragonsOfInactionPerceivedRiskFinancial
#MetaphorVersusCostEnvironment
"The predictably pious Steyer and his fellow commissioners will no doubt claim devotion to the interests of average citizen. But, as a new lawsuit filed by some 300 civil rights leaders asserts, the policies being backed by Steyer and his fellow commissioners have already had produced disastrous results for millions of Californians. The real collective badge of shame is not California's GHG [Green House Gas] emissions but the prevalence of poverty amid
enormous affluence.
Critically, economic growth, at least outside asset- and iPhone-price inflation, is itself considered a threat to the planet within the environmental community, which largely hails the Covid lockdowns as a 'fire drill' for future actions to promote 'de-growth.' The open hope, as a Psychology Today writer puts it, would be to tame 'the human beast' by imposing low-consumption lifestyles on hoi polloi, including in developing countries. Such policies might not affect the prospects for social media, search, or import- dependent firms like Apple, but they have already been beastly for millions of Californians."
#IRLBusinesspersonTomSteyer
#CauseCivilRights
#ToponymAmericaNorthUSCalifornia
#LiteralSubstanceGasToxicAirEmissions
#PhenomnDeprivationPoverty
#BrandAppleiPhone
#PhenomnVirusCOVID19PandemicMitigationLockdown
#MagazineUSPsychologyTodayNigelBarber