gregg r on Nostr: Extreme wealth begets extreme politics. The connections between the rise of oligarchs ...

Extreme wealth begets extreme politics. The connections between the rise of oligarchs and authoritarianism have many antecedents, some of them forgotten. npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33) reminds that "Silence begets forgetting, which begets revisionism."

"We're currently in the midst of a decidedly unjust war – the war to continue roasting the planet, a war waged in the name of continuing enrichment of the world's already-obscenely-rich oligarchs."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/19/stolpersteine/#truth-and-reconciliation