One DOLLAR an egg????
<>Brandon’s cascading cornucopia of catastrophe.<>
Howie is still the best in what is left of the newspaper business.
“Ages of Discord” book by Peter Turchin
We are on the wrong track! Peter tells us that an excess of Elites have caused most of the serious problems in the history of our world.
The excess of Elites, still are causing problems behind their brick and electronic walled mansions.
Then, Peter shows/tells us how that has often happened in America, and is apparently happening again and could be a root cause of violence in America, in the past, now and in the near future.
Are there too many meddling/interfering billionaire elites in America?
As a result, Is our country going to hell due to their meddling? Seventy percent of Americans (and counting) think that we are going to hell. They don’t know whom to blame!
The inflation-adjusted wage of a US worker today is less than 40 years ago—but there are four times as many multimillionaires.
As inequality grows, the infrastructure frays and the politics become more poisonous. Every year, more and more Americans go on shooting sprees, killing strangers and passers-by—and, increasingly, the representatives of the state. This is not new!
Troubling trends of this kind are endlessly discussed by politicians, public intellectuals, and social scientists. But mostly, they talk about only a small slice of the overall problem. After all, how on earth can yet another murderous rampage have anything to do with polarization in Congress? Is there really a connection between too many multimillionaires elite and government gridlock?
Historical analysis shows that long spells of equitable prosperity and internal peace are often succeeded by protracted periods of inequity, increasing misery, and political instability. These crisis periods—“Ages of Discord”—tend to share characteristic features, identifiable in many societies throughout history.
Modern Americans, for example, mayle be disconcerted to learn that the US right now has much in common with the Antebellum 1850s and, even more surprisingly, with ancien régime France on the eve of the French Revolution.
Can it really be true that our troubled age is nothing new, and that it arises periodically for similar underlying reasons?
It can. Ages of Discord marshals a cohesive theory and detailed historical data to show that this is, indeed, the case. The book takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through American history, from the Era of Good Feelings of the 1820s to our first Age of Discord, which culminated in the American Civil War, to post-WW2 prosperity and, finally, to our present, second Age of Discord.
Peter shows how these elite billionaires control, who is elected to Congress and to high $ state and local official positions. If you like charts, Peter has them. I prefer his written verbiage re the histories of our elites and other haters of America.
Don’t worry fake news has a case of lipstick for their pig 🐷🤪
Who is his antibiotics sponsor?
Ping
A good article. I have been the grocery story shopper since the Covid1984 hit us. My wife needed a new hip and covid was a stumbling block for her re getting her surgery scheduled. She finally got the replacement this past 1 March.
There were more empty shelves at the two stores, where I shop at, the beginning of the lockdowns.
The price increases and smaller sizes are SOP on the items we buy at our local store or on line from Costco.
Just paid $70 to fill my 15 gallon tank.
$70.
I’ve had this bad feeling all weekend that the powder keg is going to blow very soon.
And today, the average price of gas is about $4.87. Remember to thank the ESG environ-MENTAL-ists at Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street for this calamity.