Kevin Phillips: Bad Money - Interview with Amy Goodman

[Spartacus]

Re: Kevin Phillips: Bad Money - interview with Amy Good man

I once read a large paperback called "the great escape"

The first chapter was choc full of advice on how & where to do hedonism.

One article that stood out for me was about how the author would go to an airport, almost anywhere in the US, hang out in the pilot's lounge, chat up a couple of pilots and pretty soon get free trips all over the world.

An English teacher of mine, CA. 1983 relayed a couple of the same stories. Seems the US-Canada border just did not exist for many people before the 80s.

A quick search turns this up:
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/...ind%20&%20body

I was a teen-ager in 1960's and a young adult in 1970's. So I remember that era well.

The reason the young people of that day could rebel and not worry too much about their future ("live for today" to quote a popular song) was that prosperity was taken for granted, as was the fact that the U.S. had the richest economy in the world at that time. So when you got tired of being a poor hippie, if you wanted, you could just "drop back in" and get a decent job with decent wages (even blue collar paid well then). Major layoffs and downsizings were rare.

[Jim Nickerson]

Re: Kevin Phillips: Bad Money - interview with Amy Good man

history seems to put the same types of idiots in the right places in the right times to get itself repeated ... you might think he (history) has a morbid, if repetitive, sense of humor.

Also, the unlived life is not worth examining.



Please ... He would have said that, wouldn't he? I mean, just LOOK at that hair.

Sadsack, I did not see your post until Spartacus repeated it.

I am not ignorant of history, I just was never serious about learning it to begin with. I know more now that at any time past, but I wouldn't win in any history contests with someone who was a serious student of it.

[sadsack]

Re: Kevin Phillips: Bad Money - interview with Amy Good man

Sadsack, I did not see your post until Spartacus repeated it.

I am not ignorant of history, I just was never serious about learning it to begin with. I know more now that at any time past, but I wouldn't win in any history contests with someone who was a serious student of it.

I said S&S would tentatively approve, i.e., you may not know where you'll end up, but at least you're in motion.