Some Green theo-politics from NZ
21 Wednesday Dec 2011
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inThere seems to me an economic process going on that tends to concentrate first wealth and then power in the hands of a small number of adventurous individuals of no very high intellectual type, a huge importation of alien and unassimilable workers, and a sustained disorder of local and political administration. Correlated with this is a great increase in personal luxury and need. In all these respects there is a strong parallelism between the present condition of the United States and the Roman Republic in the time of the early Caesars ; and arguing from these alone one might venture to forecast the steady development of an exploiting and devastating plutocracy, leading perhaps to Cassarism, and a progressive decline in civilization and social solidarity. ~ H. G. Wells, The Future in America: A Search After Realities (1906)