Flimsy Sanity: Economic Disaster as Potential for Change

Flimsy Sanity

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Economic Disaster as Potential for Change



The Alarming Parallels between 1929 and 1970Testimony of Robert Kuttner
Before the Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. October 2, 2007


Our first national economic disaster was the birth of social programs that created the middle class. What will the next one bring?

1 Comments:

  • At 3:12 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    To ponder an answer to your question, perhaps the next one will bring further corporate/governmental restrictions on rights and freedoms as Naomi Klein suggests is the pattern. The final step into fascism?

     

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