While the most visible and egregious forms of government power exist in the form of the surveillance state, an aggressive military, and manipulative media, 1984’s most powerful and insidious means of exercising authority is by inscribing beliefs directly onto the mind by the control of language and by psychiatric tyranny.
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All economies are ‘human economies’ in the sense that they orient our interactions with members of our family, our community, friends, and other nations. Understanding ourselves and our place in the world, therefore, necessitates understanding our current economic and financial regimes.
Until we reorient our relationship to China and heavily invest in our service economies, especially in education and healthcare, we have not fully learned from the 2008 financial crisis.