words. for your consideration.
"The politicians and pundits who get the most attention — at least for a
while — are those who treat a genuine but limited and reversible trend
as evidence of imminent utopia or approaching apocalypse. Such hype is
then magnified by an infotainment industry that promotes drama and
penalizes nuance.
...At the moment, fortunately, we are between ill-conceived elite fads
in the U.S. But fashion abhors a vacuum. If experience is any guide,
some new Big Idea that is at once fresh, seductive and wrong will soon
emerge to excite the political class and the commentariat and become
what every serious, respectable person believes — at least until it goes
horribly wrong.
When it comes to the hype market, you will seldom
err by betting against it. When everybody who is anybody in politics
and the press agrees on something, it’s time to raise some doubts."
SALON: Elites keep ruining America
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