Botond173
6hr ago
Never in a million years would I have expected the word 'evangelion' to be brought up in such a context here or any other place. It's Old Greek supposedly?
Botond173
6hr ago
I’m just a layman regarding these matters. I’m assuming that military command gets recon carried out of targets it is to target with missiles. Satellite photos, maybe aerial recon, SIGINT and so on. I guess that’s supposed to be evident to a layman like me? So if there’s an enemy military base which had its perimeter changed years before, and as a result there is a building that used to be barracks but is now a school, recon should confirm that in time. There’s no need for a separate unit to be set up under a fancy name with the specific task of preventing collateral damage.
Botond173
1d ago
Do you specifically mean alcohol sales at bars and clubs? I'd also like to know what exactly 'a few years ago' means here.
Botond173
1d ago
We work remotely
Not new hires in their first corporate job ever though. Also, kids still attend public schools and college, don't they? That hasn't changed. I imagine economic stagnation may have reached such levels that only few college students can afford to go on summer vacations.
Botond173
1d ago
Indeed. Society only functions properly if people form meaningful friendships.
Botond173
1d ago
Unfortunately I think there are units with even more woke people in them.
Botond173
1d ago
like a small unit in a bloated imperial military that tries to reduce collateral damage by fucking checking whether a building marked 10 years ago as barracks is clearly something else now".
This seems to be a standard job for military recon units, doesn't it? Before you fire on a target, confirm where it is and what it is. Shouldn't that be evident? What's the point in creating a separate unit responsible for reducing collateral damage? And then naming it 'Civilian Protection Center of Excellence' to boot?
Botond173
1d ago
The Pentagon chief last year slashed offices that didn’t contribute to his goal of “lethality,” including the group that assists in limiting risk to civilians, known as the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.
Seriously??
Botond173
1d ago
This is the consequence of the Great Awokening. Welcome to the current year.
Botond173
1d ago
Fair enough. My point is that the "neo-" part has a more concrete and agreed-upon definition than the "late-" part.
Botond173
2d ago
Adding this for further context:
The development of capitalism is divided into three stages.[6] The first volume of Der moderne Kapitalismus published in 1902, deals with proto-capitalism, the origins and transition to capitalism from feudalism,[7] and the period he called early capitalism – Frühkapitalismus – which ended before the Industrial Revolution.[8] In his second volume, which he published in 1916, he described the period that began c. 1760, as high capitalism – Hochkapitalismus.[9] The last book, published in 1927, treats conditions in the 20th century. He called this stage late capitalism – Spätkapitalismus, which began with World War I.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Sombart#Middle_career_and_sociology
In somewhat comical fashion, Wikipedia authors examined Sombart himself and drew similar biographical conclusions:
As a young man, Sombart was a socialist who associated with Marxist intellectuals and the German Social Democratic Party. Friedrich Engels praised Sombart's review of the first edition of Marx's Das Kapital Vol. 3 in 1894, and sent him a letter.[9] As a mature academic who became well known for his own sociological writings, Sombart had a sympathetically critical attitude to the ideas of Karl Marx — seeking to criticize, modify and elaborate Marx's insights, while disavowing Marxist doctrinairism and dogmatism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Initial_use_of_the_term
Botond173
2d ago
True. Historians also differentiate Early and Late Antiquity or Early and Late Feudalism. I guess one can also speak of Mature/Peak Antiquity/Feudalism if we want to divide eras even further. The existence of any economic system is conditional and conditions are necessarily subject to change, which means no system can continue indefinitely, and nor can cancer.
Botond173
2d ago
According to Wikiquote this seems to be the quote you are looking for:
The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co-operate together, knowing no rivalry but the rivalry of endeavour toward an end beneficial to all. For, as we have said elsewhere, socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, Christian nor Freethinker, Buddhist, Mahometan, nor Jew; it is only Human. We of the socialist working class realise that as we suffer together we must work together that we may enjoy together. We reject the firebrand of capitalist warfare and offer you the olive leaf of brotherhood and justice to and for all.
These are actually the closing words of a pamphlet he wrote in 1910 as a response to the anti-socialist lectures of some Priest. Well...technically speaking we cannot say if he was correct or incorrect. Four years later the entire world had an opportunity to learn what the firebrand of capitalist warfare is in its true form, and he argued that only a globally united working class can possibly prevent that disaster. I guess that may be true in retrospect.
Botond173
2d ago
I think it's obvious that the phrase "neoliberalism" was invented in order to differentiate the liberal economic policies as they existed before and after the emergence and implementation of Keynesianism.
Botond173
2d ago
I'll not ask you to doxx yourself but I just wonder where all your friends live then. Is it some suburb in the Rust Belt? Some stagnant town in Central Valley, CA? What is going on here?
Botond173
2d ago
That means it's likely a 30+ minute car ride to meet with a friend. 60 minutes all in just for commute to meet with someone.
This implies that you don't have any friends in the suburb you're living in. Is that considered usual in the US?
Botond173
2d ago
I’d prefer not to start discussing something here that is only tangentially related to this miniseries, nor am I an economist or a redditor for that matter, but if you wish to discuss late-stage capitalism in general on this site, I’ll be happy to take part. To keep this comment concise I’d make the following argument.
In early-stage capitalism: the concentration of capital is yet of a low level, some natural resources are still untapped and not depleted, some markets are still unclaimed and unexplored, the low-hanging fruit is generally yet not picked, market forces did not yet eat away at social norms and cultural traditions (fertility rates and family formation rates are still high, and labor is plentiful), the environment is not yet poisoned and contaminated all over. In late-stage capitalism, none of that is true anymore.
I think it’s obvious. Of the three recorded deaths at Woodstock, one was a simple accident (you shouldn’t fall asleep on a hayfield where tractors move around) and two were drug overdoses. Compared to this, there were 742 recorded nonlethal overdoses according to Wikipedia. I imagine any jurisdiction in the US affected by the opioid epidemic (more or less all of them?) would be rather happy to produce such a ratio in their police reports. There was not one recorded murder or rape. Compared to this, hired security stabbed a man to death in Altamont, which is a significant difference. (The other three recorded cases of death were due to mundane accidents.)
There are culture wars outside the US as well though.
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