“American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation.”
CJKent (Banned)
“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”
Title couldn’t say it all
Why in America while the rich get richer millions of Americans are struggling to survive?
“American slavery is necessarily imprinted on the DNA of American capitalism,”
“Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.”
“In order to understand the brutality of merican capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019…
Why in America while the rich get richer millions of Americans are struggling to survive?
“American slavery is necessarily imprinted on the DNA of American capitalism,”
“Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.”
“In order to understand the brutality of merican capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019…
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To answer your question:
CJ, Are you just trying to get "down" votes ?
No.
Quotations are used by me as a means of inspiration and to invoke philosophical thoughts from the reader.
Pragmatically speaking, quotations can also be used as language games (in the Wittgensteinian sense of the term) to manipulate social order and the structure of society
“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
~ Austrian-British philosopher
~ Born: April 26, 1889, Vienna, Austria
~ Died: April 29, 1951, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ludwig said it all.
> https://tuscl.net/discussion/72095/
Did you notice, no one answer the question?:
Why in America while the rich get richer millions of Americans are struggling to survive?
And everyone appears to accept the fact that:
“American Capitalism Is Brutal”
Everyone knows:
“The United States is Imperialist, and its domestic society is unequal and poverty is rampant...”
We paint over our ugly reality to make a beautiful delusion of self, of society.
We defend this beautiful self and society from our ugly reality with the weapons of denial.
“The best thing about the truth is that once you see it, you can't unsee it.”
“And knowing the truth will make it difficult to still believe the lies.”
Because it's a bullshit question, and quotes from an agenda-driven newspaper don't make something true?