amazing how a malicious audit can be almost immediate, but good policy can take decades

Shame is good because shame is the least restrictive and least violent deterrent for anti-social behavior, and you aren't going to like what happens when shame goes away if you're already worried about getting shamed.

Interesting to see STL and CGY in the top 10...

When your system of belief starts with a rigid hierarchy is necessary for the universe to exist, of course you're going to discover hierarchies where none exist.

This is, and has always been, a class war. There’s a veneer over top of it that presents parties and leaders and media as faux representative, but when the rubber meets the road and capitalism requires fascism, they turn to capitulation and collaboration.