Where's Superman, Steve? The kryptonite got him that was in the Powell memo.
It's a history -- 50 years back when, by the mid-1970s both the Heritage Foundation and ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) had been up and running a couple years – since early 1973. They, along with an enlarged Hoover Institution, were the first to …
Where's Superman, Steve? The kryptonite got him that was in the Powell memo.
It's a history -- 50 years back when, by the mid-1970s both the Heritage Foundation and ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) had been up and running a couple years – since early 1973. They, along with an enlarged Hoover Institution, were the first to begin implementing the far right’s agenda as in the 1971 Powell memo.
Heritage and Hoover spent the 1970s placing articles to shame lib profs on U.S. campuses for any extra-curricular activism – anti-war, pro civil rights, women’s lib, and the environment. They sought an end to the use of novels, films, and songs of the time energizing these causes. They wanted profs as neutered specialists only.
ALEC added to this with lobbying state legislatures to reduce funding for the public colleges and universities which all had well aided since the Justin Morrill land grant act of 1862. ALEC argued half of Americans never went to college, so why subsidize those who did?
The Cato Institute joined the clamor in 1977. Then many others. All began lobbying for more standardized testing – that K-12 serve meritocracy, so easily obtainable numbers put all in clear numerical hierarchies.
Trouble was, ALEC’s defunding successes also set higher ed students in new and deep student loan debt to the banks. And testing’s K-12 takeover tilted all to categories, abstracted causalities, and life as linear chronology. Nothing personal anymore. Humanities gone. As if 100% of all in K-12 aspired to meritocracy’s neutered elites.
Possibly. You do see things I don’t. I’m somewhat confident that crypto will never be mine. Unlike currency, which is and has always been self-contained … crypto requires a lot of sophisticated and expensive equipment at every stage. Equipment that has a short lifespan and is prone to failure at any stage and multiple points. It’s value has been and remains indeterminate. But you know all this.
I suppose a lot of terrible things are going to occur before my final exit, as they always have up to this point. Whoever is interested in making satoshis universal had best hurry. Thing is, I do understand blockchain ;->} 😂 😜 ✌️
As to the other popular forms of gambling, I don’t participate in those either.
As you just pointed out, those positioned to have less risk, and something with non-evaporative value to bargain with, will do pretty well. In the Great Depression people like those could buy up things others could no longer afford to keep. Entire industries grew out of that. Just like the stock market loves RIFs, there are many Republicans that see economic downturns as a culling of the herd. It’s horrible to realize the extent of this in some folk. Heartbreaking actually.
Phil, thanks for nailing this down. It is also true that the Democratic Party leadership was well aware of all this at the time. They saw the moves into county and State governments and into judiciaries. They saw Blue Dog seats go Republican. There’s quite a litany here.
Where's Superman, Steve? The kryptonite got him that was in the Powell memo.
It's a history -- 50 years back when, by the mid-1970s both the Heritage Foundation and ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) had been up and running a couple years – since early 1973. They, along with an enlarged Hoover Institution, were the first to begin implementing the far right’s agenda as in the 1971 Powell memo.
Heritage and Hoover spent the 1970s placing articles to shame lib profs on U.S. campuses for any extra-curricular activism – anti-war, pro civil rights, women’s lib, and the environment. They sought an end to the use of novels, films, and songs of the time energizing these causes. They wanted profs as neutered specialists only.
ALEC added to this with lobbying state legislatures to reduce funding for the public colleges and universities which all had well aided since the Justin Morrill land grant act of 1862. ALEC argued half of Americans never went to college, so why subsidize those who did?
The Cato Institute joined the clamor in 1977. Then many others. All began lobbying for more standardized testing – that K-12 serve meritocracy, so easily obtainable numbers put all in clear numerical hierarchies.
Trouble was, ALEC’s defunding successes also set higher ed students in new and deep student loan debt to the banks. And testing’s K-12 takeover tilted all to categories, abstracted causalities, and life as linear chronology. Nothing personal anymore. Humanities gone. As if 100% of all in K-12 aspired to meritocracy’s neutered elites.
And here now, Bernie Sanders is taking the stage and speaking up
History redux, thanks Phil. Damn, does the Hoover Institution want a redo of 1929
Yes.
But instead of the rich jumping out windows, they will have the resources to buy cheap while the rest of us are stuck with crypto.
Possibly. You do see things I don’t. I’m somewhat confident that crypto will never be mine. Unlike currency, which is and has always been self-contained … crypto requires a lot of sophisticated and expensive equipment at every stage. Equipment that has a short lifespan and is prone to failure at any stage and multiple points. It’s value has been and remains indeterminate. But you know all this.
I suppose a lot of terrible things are going to occur before my final exit, as they always have up to this point. Whoever is interested in making satoshis universal had best hurry. Thing is, I do understand blockchain ;->} 😂 😜 ✌️
As to the other popular forms of gambling, I don’t participate in those either.
As you just pointed out, those positioned to have less risk, and something with non-evaporative value to bargain with, will do pretty well. In the Great Depression people like those could buy up things others could no longer afford to keep. Entire industries grew out of that. Just like the stock market loves RIFs, there are many Republicans that see economic downturns as a culling of the herd. It’s horrible to realize the extent of this in some folk. Heartbreaking actually.
Phil, thanks for nailing this down. It is also true that the Democratic Party leadership was well aware of all this at the time. They saw the moves into county and State governments and into judiciaries. They saw Blue Dog seats go Republican. There’s quite a litany here.
Thank you. I just see crypto as ephemeral, more an illusion and wonder about the trip to Fort Knox. They don’t do anything without a plan.