The most interesting video I've seen recently; a Broadway Bleg
The most interesting video I've seen recently is this saleswoman explaining why she quit her job.
It’s a timely story so expertly told that I wondered afterwards if it had been made in a lab. (The use of the word “deprogram” is so deft, it feels surgical.)
I’m sure it’s a real video.1
It’s a good example of the word we need on the streets.
The Social Contract Has Been Broken
We’ve crossed the Rubicon.
The success of Trump is due almost entirely to the social contract being broken.
Enough people will look the other way at criminality if they believe they have been robbed. And while Trump and Musk’s game of blaming the poor immigrant is see-through (“They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs”), the general appetite for destruction is widespread. (Cue the hagiography of Young Mangione.)
Today I read a story in the WSJ that says: The economy is doing well if you look at shopping by the top 10 percent.
That’s not a rising tide lifts all boats. That’s a few people riding high and many – if not most – sinking into the water (or the sewers, as in the movie Parasite, which did gangbuster at the box office).
Again, people have eyes.
They see that Musk and Trump are breaking the rules. This confirms what they already sense: the oligarchs are winning.
Many people are making rational bets that they should join with these oligarchs or be left out of the gangster economy already in place. (Come to my LinkedIn, the silence is deafening.)
We had Elizabeth Warren (I voted for her in the primaries; but the racist slur Pocahontas and her own professorial manner limited her reach.) We had Lina Khan. At one point, Bernie Sanders was outpacing Biden in delegates.
Today, AOC is our best bet and she has clearly explained: The Democratic Party has to break with the billionaires. Or there won’t be a Democratic Party.
And without them, no democracy.
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Our postmodern reality means we don’t have to worry about whether or not a YouTube video is true. YouTube is not the arbiter of truth. (The TV of the 1950s, heavily sponsored by brands, was also not expected to be documentary.) The courts are. Of course, the truth without consequences… well, we’ll find out soon enough. ↩