A Boring Dystopia

13391 readers

314 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks@lemmy.world

Has anyone read Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine”? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It feels like that is part of what’s going on right now in the US. We are so overwhelmed with complete shit, while we move towards losing any form of regulation over business and the idea of democracy itself.

I feel like continuing to read it is going to force me on blood pressure medication. I knew that the US did a lot of ratfuckery to support regimes like Pinochet’s, but now I want to convert to Christianity just so I can believe there’s a hell for Milton Friedman to burn in.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The part about Yeltsin firing on his own Parliament was very insightful. Again, setting the stage for Russia’s current exercises of Shock.

I just got through the section on Russia. The idea that “Russians weren’t ready for democracy” - WTF! I’ve read so much Cold War propaganda about how much better the US because it was a Democracy™ and then the West pressures Russia to not allow elections? Western money interests are why we have Putin.

I don’t get how any of these “economists” could live with themselves.

[–] eightpix@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I'm starting to think that the Nobel Prize for Economics should be renamed the Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.