W. S.: New Fascist Police State of America
J. W.: Please explain.
W. S.: 1. Fascism is the political ideology that puts top value on industry and corporate profitability above anything else. 2. With only 4% of the world's population, the USA houses 25% of the world's prisoners. 3. This phrase is a meme. I am trying to share a meme that will reproduce itself in other people's brains. A kind of a "thought virus." Advertising slogans also are memes.
W. S.: The social dilemma that this Coronavirus presents is that it exposes the value system of government choice. In the USA the predominant value in business is profitability and gathering wealth. We are so programmed to this mindset that we find it difficult to imagine any other way to put value on objects and events. We COULD measure different parameters of life as being the primary value besides wealth, but to name them even sounds silly to our pre-programmed mind: Health of the environment, Health of the body, Maximum free hours with minimum labor to accomplish work. In traditional North west Indian culture of potlatch, your status was measured by "how much you gave away" and NOT "how much you keep"
W. S.: But it sounds so ridiculous to our thoughtlessly programmed minds that it becomes humorous and "nonsensical"
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William Schaeffer
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