{"id":15912,"date":"2014-04-27T12:59:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T10:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=15912"},"modified":"2022-12-30T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T13:57:16","slug":"will-the-worlds-middle-classes-rise-up-in-a-helvetian-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/will-the-worlds-middle-classes-rise-up-in-a-helvetian-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the world\u2019s middle classes rise up, in a \u201cHelvetian War\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Set in the year 2038, Earth portrays citizens in that near-future era looking back upon a brutal struggle that took place in the 2020s.<\/p>\n

The Helvetian War was unlike anything we’ve seen since the French or Russian Revolutions. A radical rising by a fed-up world middle class, pushed against the wall by cynics and the corrupt connivers.<\/p>\n

What they seek – and attain – is not socialism, a discredited foolishness that arose out of silly abstractions that bore no relationship at all to real human nature. Market economies have out-performed socialist or communist or oligarchic ones so overwhelmingly that only delusional fools – or would-be oligarchs – should prefer top-down, bureaucratic control instead of the fluid productivity that we get out of creative competition. (Does that make me sound like a right-winger? Silly. Broaden your memes.)<\/p>\n

No, the new radicalism that may be demanded in the 2020s — especially by emerging middle classes in the developing world — is to give all people a chance to compete fairly, free from parasitism by their homegrown kleptocrats and from the rising global variety. Free from the secret, conspiring control of a caste that Adam Smith himself called the oppressors of freedom and market economics across 6000 years.<\/p>\n

‘All for ourselves and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.’ –Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CONTRARY BRIN: Will the world\u2019s middle classes rise up, in a \u201cHelvetian War\u201d?<\/a><\/p>\n

This is similar to the idea that J.G Ballard had in \u201cMillennium People\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Set in the year 2038, Earth portrays citizens in that near-future era looking back upon a brutal struggle that took place in the 2020s. The Helvetian War was unlike anything we’ve seen since the French or Russian Revolutions. A radical rising by a fed-up world middle class, pushed against the wall by cynics and the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,15,42],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-15912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics","category-psychology","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-48E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9353,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-postwar-european-atrocity\/","url_meta":{"origin":15912,"position":0},"title":"The postwar European atrocity","author":"Limbic","date":"October 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Brilliant article at The Chronicle of Higher Education on one of the most disgraceful periods in European history: the mass explosion and mass murder of ethnic Germans after World War 2. 16,000,000 innocent civilians ethnically cleansed, 500,000 died - in peacetime! 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