It is because your economic patron saint is still Jean Baptiste Colbert, whereas ours is Adam Smith. In spite of a few recent reforms, your governments largely still dominate your economies, so you have much greater difficulty than we in innovating, encouraging labor mobility, reducing costs, attracting capital to fast-moving young businesses and adapting quickly to changing economic circumstances. You'd rather not go through the hassle of moving toward less dirigisme.
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"What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no* defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government."* -- Noam Chomsky
= nice try, but no. That's not less dirigisme, that's more. Why, even you say it yourself without knowing, when you talk about adapting to circumstances, many of which exactly this rat race creates.
Even if someone has an otherwise good point - if this crap is mixed in, this propaganda against government and by extension against the people having at least a theoretical defense which might one day become a real one, I find it hard to ignore that. Because a little sugar makes medicine go down, but also rat poison. Democracy is not the problem, its subversion by all sorts of groups including the people itself is. If we're not good enough to deserve it, then let's be good enough, instead of just giving up and going along with blind greed, and/or following people who have no idea where the fuck they're even going.
vs.
"What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no* defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government."* -- Noam Chomsky
= nice try, but no. That's not less dirigisme, that's more. Why, even you say it yourself without knowing, when you talk about adapting to circumstances, many of which exactly this rat race creates.
Even if someone has an otherwise good point - if this crap is mixed in, this propaganda against government and by extension against the people having at least a theoretical defense which might one day become a real one, I find it hard to ignore that. Because a little sugar makes medicine go down, but also rat poison. Democracy is not the problem, its subversion by all sorts of groups including the people itself is. If we're not good enough to deserve it, then let's be good enough, instead of just giving up and going along with blind greed, and/or following people who have no idea where the fuck they're even going.