Robert VerBruggen Archives - Market Mad House

daniel April 2, 2017 Dark Mountain Project, debt peonage, eccentric off-gridders, Low-Tech Utopia, Low-Tech Utopia or Primitive Nightmare, Luddite utopianism, Mark Sundeen, Matthew Secich, Paul Kingsworth, Possibility Alliance, Robert VerBruggen, Rod Dreher, the Amish, The low-tech utopia, The Ugly Side of the 19th Century, The Unsettlers, Why the Low-Tech Utopia will not Work

The Dark Side of Low Technology Utopias

The worst aspect of low tech utopianism is that like most idealists, its practitioners ignore human nature. Like the Communists and Libertarians the low-techers accept the delusion that human weakness can be overcome by simple idealism.

Set in a low-tech 19th Century environment most Americans would behave like Jefferson Davis; the slaving-owning Confederate President, not Thoreau. After all life on the veranda; sipping a mint julip, is far more comfortable than life in the fields.

Politics

daniel July 26, 2016 “law and order” campaign, Clinton would “handle the economy” better than Trump, law and order campaign will not work in 2016, law and order rhetori, law and order would be toxic for Trump, Robert VerBruggen, Trump alleged business dealings with reputed Mafia figures, Trump could “handle the economy” better than Hillary

Law and Order will not Help Trump

Law and order is Hillary’s strongest issue. She has been harping on it for months under the cover of gun control. There’s a reason why Hillary has been emphasizing gun control for months; the issue allows her to be tough on crime without being seen as hostile to African Americans, whose votes she needs. Another Reason for Clinton’s anti-gun crusade is to distract voters particularly soccer moms; Hillary’s core constituency, from the lousy economy. Strangely enough; Hillary agrees with VerBruggen’s belief that it is time for a law and order campaign, for she is already running one.