TDS will be discussed in the history books as a sort of Tulip Mania.
The New York City “Press” will be discussed in the history books - how a nation of millions was manipulated by a small minority. Those who earn paychecks from the system (on whichever side) cannot comment on it. I suspect that they can’t even see it.
There would be no TDS without NYC.
Yes, indeed.
Charles Mackay offered us this:
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”Rather well captures these last decades of "take on for the team" and "fundamental transformation" and some "foreign entanglements."