Max B. Sawicky wrote: >... I'd suggest all assembled try and bend their minds around the possibility >of very high unemployment lasting five years or more. We had something like that in the 80s, with no mass uprising in prospect. How might it go this time?<
Maybe we've already seen something of a "mass uprising." With labor union organization, traditions, and mind-sets (along with the baggage left over from the New Deal) trampled out of them and with increasingly insecure and poorly-paying job prospects, perhaps many workers are acting in an individualistic way, absorbing the "you're on your own" vision of the last 30 years and hoping that they can win with lottery tickets and "entrepreneurship." This might have been mixed with reflexive nationalism, blaming foreign-born workers (either at home or abroad) and embracing militaristic visions of foreign policy. Maybe some of them have gone to the "Tea Parties" or to harass the seemingly out-of-touch DP politicians at town meetings. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
