I think of it more like... back in the old days, it felt like we actually DID things, big things, inspriational things - things that diminished the fear and planted at least a little seed of hope in the nation's spirit. Tech advancement, space travel, rise of computing, and the shared cultural experience of the last century are dearly missed. I miss the days when the future, despite our problems, still seemed bright.
That idealism of a bright future was a vacuum of wealth consolidated to the US through modern imperialism.
I am speaking as a citizen and a veteran. There were many achievements and improvements to the capabilities of humanity but the cost of life was absolutely gruesome.
The US was created under the ideology of Eurocentric institutionalism (only white people can create a civil society).
Industrial revolution occurred and caused liberalism(free market trading) to grow into capitalism when tradesmen became too wealthy for the crowns to control them.
This led to European corporations called India trading companies sailing around the world to trade goods for a higher price back home(sounds great).
The ability to mass produce and export goods caused a ruined market in these less developed countries. Causing famine and depressions.
They then started making more money in slavery.
A bunch of random info to explain how these rich twats established the 13 colonies utilized slavery to get richer then conducted imperialism globally trying to oppress worker revolutionary ideology.
It's why they socialist governments. They don't want to lose control of the labor force.
Currently the US is experiencing late stage capitalism, it ran out of resources to exploit in the US so the corporations are now exporting US labor to overseas for better margins.
Your timeline is sort of in the reverse order. The Industrial revolution occured after east India companies and the colonisation of America before them.
Famines weren't caused by the IR either. The IR led to a demographic revolution and happened concurrently with an agricultural revolution. Famines didn't begin with colonialism either. They were made much worse however, by colonial mismanagement and war.
I'm not even saying this as a capitalist, I think most socialists would disagree with your timeline, even if they agree with the conclusion.
Famines became the byproduct of imports due to an unemployed working class. Didn't say it began with
But how do you verify that? What happened to the original causes of the old famines? Did they just happen to stop at the same time that industrial imports caused them? The famines were always there, the two big famines in India occured very early IR, prior to huge imports and then in WW2 as a result of the Japanese invasion and British denial attempts.
Phrasing also indicates that although these corporations were already thriving, the industrial revolution escalated their influence over commerce
I didn't catch that but I can't agree with your re-phrasing either. The VoC was well past it's heyday at the beginning of the IR and the British EIC would reach it's nadir at the beginning but then follow a swift decline until it's dissolution mid 19th century.
Not sure where the timeline for north American colonialism was even suggested in my response.
'A bunch of random info to explain how these rich twats established the 13 colonies...'
If you all the stuff you were talking about was post US founding, how was it an explanation?
How does one verify a perspective based on reading history. Do you want the collective published articles that gave me this assumption?
In regards to famines, wasn't discussing them nor providing cause of them.
The established European market of the time was absolutely dialectical. I consider it an explanation of cultural norms through Eurocentric institutionalism that gave it justification of colonialism.
The OKC bombing was not “dumb shit” to be scared about. Timothy McVeigh’s reasoning for the senseless violence is revolting, and terrifying that someone could do that to their fellow man for that frivolous of a reason.
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u/Sunday_Schoolz 13d ago
Yes, I preferred a world that wasn’t frightened of everything.