Posted on 01/15/2023 7:09:29 PM PST by Rummyfan
The downfall of capitalism will not come from the uprising of an impoverished working class but from the sabotage of a bored upper class. This was the view of the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Schumpeter believed that at some point in the future, an educated elite would have nothing left to struggle for and will instead start to struggle against the very system that they themselves live in.
Nothing makes me think Schumpeter was right like the contemporary climate movement and its acolytes. The Green movement is not a reflection of planetary crisis as so many in media and culture like to depict it, but rather, a crisis of meaning for the affluent.
Take for example a recent interview with Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich on CBS's 60 Minutes. Ehrlich is most famous for his career as a professional doom monger. His first major book, The Population Bomb, gave us timelessly wrong predictions, including that by the 1980s, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death and it went downhill from there. Ehrlich assured us that England would no longer exist in the year 2000, that even modern fertilizers would not enable us to feed the world, and that thermonuclear power was just around the corner.
Ehrlich, who recently turned 90, is in the lucky position to have witnessed the complete failure of all his predictions—only to double down on them in his 60 Minutes interview Ehrlich has been wrong on every public policy issue he pontificated on for almost 60 years, yet the mainstream media still treat him like a modern oracle.
Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What happened to Newsweek?
We’re living in the Weimar Republic.
This is one of Victor Davis Hanson’s common themes and refrains. The wealthy, lazy, guilt-ridden coastal elites are seeking some meaning in their miserable lives and turn to causes like climate where they can spend their fortunes. Thousands of them fly their Gulfstreams to Davos spewing millions of tons of CO2 to “save the earth.”
And they are impervious to the realization of their own hypocrisy.
Those attending Davos are requiring unvaxxed pilots for their private jets.
I don’t know how bored the elites are, but it could be as simple as commies doing what commies do.
Yep. First world BS “problems”.
It’s the ‘more money than brains’ group of ‘elites’... men like John Kerry Al Gore and Bill Gates.
Victor Davis Hanson nailed this one...
Weimar problems bring Weimar solutions.
I was going to ask the same.
Several articles I’ve seen like this.
No its about control
“What happened to Newsweek?”
Really. They’re way outside the box. The CIA guy assigned to them must be on vacation.
Trust fund kids...
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