Traditional Hedonism...was Based On The Direct Experience

If You Want To Minimize The Possibility Of Unexpected Breakthroughs, Tell People They Will Receive No Resources At All Unless They Spend The Bulk Of Their Time Competing Against Each Other To Convince You They Know In Advance What They Are Going To Discover.

We Are Watching The Beginnings Of The Defiant Self-assertion Of A New Generation Of Americans, A Generation Who Are Looking Forward To Finishing Their Education With No Jobs, No Future, But Still Saddled With Enormous And Unforgivable Debt.

All Societies Are Based On A Sort Of Minimum Level Of Communism. Otherwise, You Couldn't Have Any Social Relations At All.

Student Loans Are Destroying The Imagination Of Youth. If There’s A Way Of A Society Committing Mass Suicide, What Better Way Than To Take All The Youngest, Most Energetic, Creative, Joyous People In Your Society And Saddle Them With, Like $50,000 Of Debt So They Have To Be Slaves? There Goes Your Music. There Goes Your Culture. There Goes Everything New That Would Pop Out. And In A Way, This Is What’s Happened To Our Society. We’re A Society That Has Lost Any Ability To Incorporate The Interesting, Creative And Eccentric People.

You Would Think That If Neoliberals Were In Any Way Honest, After The Collapse Of The Soviet Union The First Thing To Do Is Get Rid Of The Red Army And The Kgb, And Build Up The Economy. Instead, They Just Get Rid Of The Economy And Keep The Military And The Kgb.