We're becoming slaves to the Shock Doctrine.

shocking, ain't it? this is the stungun doctrine.

this new reasoning, (ie austerity doesn't permit us to get off smack right now and start eating right/exercising/taking care of ourselves) is beyond mystifying how the public swallow it whole for the most part.

'duh. we're broke so we have to spend more on planetary habitat destruction, and less on cleaning up our act, makes sense, not to me, but it makes sense!'

Bullet. Meet. Foot.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty