Wright, Lawrence (2006-08-08). The Looming Tower (p. 272)
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
The Looming Tower
"Bin Laden wanted to lure the United States into Afghanistan, which was already being called the graveyard of empires. The usual object of terror is to draw one’s opponent into repressive blunders, and bin Laden caught America at a vulnerable and unfortunate moment in its history."
Wright, Lawrence (2006-08-08). The Looming Tower (p. 272)
Wright, Lawrence (2006-08-08). The Looming Tower (p. 272)