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发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 美国人民向IT工业宣战了：The Origins of Our Second Civil War
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jul 31 10:58:12 2018, 美东)
The Origins of Our Second Civil War
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/origins-of-second-civil-war-globalism
-tech-boom-immigration-campus-radicalism/
High Tech The mass production of cheap consumer goods, most assembled abroad
, redefined wealth or, rather, disguised poverty. Suddenly the lower middle
classes and the poor had in their palms the telecommunications power of the
Pentagon of the 1970s, the computing force of IBM in the 1980s, and the
entertainment diversity of the rich of the 1990s. They could purchase big
screens for a fraction of what their grandparents paid for black-and-white
televisions and with a computer be entertained just as well cocooning in
their basement as by going out to a concert, movie, or football game.
But such electronic narcotics did not hide the fact that in terms of
economics the lifestyles of their ancestors were eroding. The new normal was
one parent at work, another at home; renting as often as buying; an eight-
year rather than three-year car loan; fewer grandparents around the corner
for babysitting or to assist when ill; and consumer service defined as
hearing taped messages of an hour before reaching a helper in India or
Vietnam.
High-tech gadgetry and the power to search the Internet did not seem to make
Americans own more homes, pay off loans more quickly, or know their
neighbors better. If in 1970 a nerd slandered one on the sidewalk and talked
trash, he might not do it twice; in 2018, he did it electronically, boldly,
and with impunity behind an array of masked social-media identities. |
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