[Xmca-l] Re: As of 2020, the American Century is Over

Wed Apr 22 21:27:58 PDT 2020

Ha, ha, Robert. I wrote it in one crazy stint of 5 or 6 
hours and then sent it off to M. for critique, made the 
revisions the next morning in half and hour and then posted 
it. It is not meant to be a sober and balanced "scientific" 
article.

Andy

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On 23/04/2020 2:03 pm, Robert Lake wrote:
> I was amazed at how much you packed in to this piece Andy. 
> How long did it take you to write the first draft?
> Robert Lake
>
> On Wednesday, April 22, 2020, Andy Blunden 
> <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> wrote:
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>     A short supplement.
>
>     Apart from the ABC, I rely on my wonderful American
>     friends. One of these, M., lives in Brooklyn and has
>     worked all his life in the NY hospital system, and I
>     sent him my first draft for comment. His voluminous
>     reply was presaged "I disagreed with much of it ..."
>     including his opinion that the American Century was
>     over in January 2017 and that he thought things would
>     go back to normal once the pandemic was over. I held
>     my ground on those two issues, but thankfully he was
>     able to correct a number of errors resulting from the
>     fact that I live a world away from America. M. is the
>     most erudite and critical person I have ever known, so
>     I am always sure of my sources when M. has checked
>     them for me.
>
>     Andy
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>     On 23/04/2020 11:21 am, Andy Blunden wrote:
>>
>>     Anthony, I mainly rely on the ABC (the Australian
>>     Broadcasting Corporation), widely accepted as the
>>     most trusted source of news and analysis in
>>     Australia, run by professional journalists, and
>>     independent of Rupert Murdoch. The NYT has a pay wall
>>     and CNN is not available here.
>>
>>     As Alfredo notes, it is no news to anyone here that
>>     reality is in the eye of the beholder, and the
>>     world's experience with the tolerance of Americans
>>     for Trump is the greatest evidence of this truism one
>>     could ask for.
>>
>>     My perceptions are conditioned by living in a country
>>     which had its first cases about the same time as
>>     America and we were in an exponential rise doubling
>>     every 3.5 days, like New York, in early March, but
>>     wonder or wonders our Prime Minister, who is one of
>>     the handful of Trump-admirers in Australian politics
>>     - changed!! Apart from some rather vindicative
>>     exclusions of foreign workers and casuals from the
>>     economic survival package, he has given ideal
>>     leadership, possibly because he immediately created a
>>     new body called the "National Cabinet" which included
>>     all the state Premiers (majority Labor) and
>>     collaborated with stakeholders rather than
>>     legislating or issuing orders. All decisions have
>>     been made collaboratively and in public. The result
>>     was that trust in government has been magically
>>     restored and we are down to *single figures* of new
>>     cases per day. Our hospitals are quiet places.
>>
>>     It is an open question whether Scott Morrison will
>>     "win" the next election; that will depend on how he
>>     acts as restrictions are lifted, I imagine, but that
>>     is absolutely the last criterion on which he will be
>>     judged by the Australian people and history. (c.f.
>>     Winston Churchill).
>>
>>     When I have made errors in judgment over the past
>>     months, it has always been my consistent
>>     underestimation of the tolerance of Americans for
>>     lies and stupidity. But that will not stop me from
>>     continuing to make the same mistake and remaining
>>     optimistic for the future. Though I agree with Mike:
>>     there will be suffering.
>>
>>     Andy
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>>     On 23/04/2020 4:02 am, Anthony Barra wrote:
>>>     Andy,
>>>
>>>     Unless someone beats me to it, I will annotate this
>>>     article when time allows -- not as a fact-check or
>>>     correction, but from an occluded view.
>>>
>>>     Thank you for writing it; it is an excellent answer
>>>     to the question, "what might the view from abroad
>>>     look like, if reliant primarily on the /New York
>>>     Times/ and /CNN?/" (i.e., similar to the view
>>>     domestically, under same conditions)
>>>
>>>     This is not an insult nor critique -- as you know
>>>     from our offline exchanges. It just is what it is; I
>>>     have my blind spots too (we are all human).
>>>
>>>     Cheers ~
>>>     Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:33 AM Andy Blunden
>>>     <andyb@marxists.org <mailto:andyb@marxists.org>> wrote:
>>>
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>>>         Andy
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