Thanks for the share; an interesting read!

We are making the same self-defeating mistakes made by the British political class that oversaw the decline of the British Empire and orchestrated the suicidal folly of World War I. We blame the poor for their own impoverishment. We believe in the superiority of the white race over other races, crushing the plethora of voices, cultures and experiences that create a dynamic society. We seek to counter injustices, along with economic and social inequality, with hypermasculinity, militarism and force, which accelerates the internal decay and propels us toward a disastrous global war, perhaps, in our case, with China.

As if there’s a version of this that does not end in the “self-defeating” mistakes. Hedges is more than happy to accept the teleology of religion but not science of marxism, let alone the teleology of the latter. What lack of dialectical materialism does to a brain.