The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.

You can watch the manufacturing of consent happen in real time ANY social justice movement kicks off. Go back & watch cable news from the past 5 days and you'll find the bulk of the interviews/roundtables center on what folks in the streets are allegedly doing wrong & little about why people are out

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.