[ExI] the myth of the US "liberal media"

[Tom Nowell]

Damien wrote:

You think there are posts here from "near communists"? What's an example?

Tovarisch Broderick, if you cannot see the communist in the room, *you* are the communist. Or so I heard from that nice Joe McCarthy.

In terms of "near communism", there's a few examples 

- the british on the list who are deeply suspicious of any form of medical care that doesn't resemble the NHS (I am one, as a teenager I applied to medical school partly out of a conviction that working in that socialised health care system was a noble thing)

- the admiration of modern China, with its mix of central planning and markets - this is found across the mainstream media these days 

- those looking to the day we are all uploads in a planet of computronium, and wondering how we fairly share out the processing time resource (the only one left at that point)

- the "homo ludens" activists, who on seeing that most of us are going to be automated out of a job, think it only fair that we tax what wealth creation remains, and share it out among those who need to play for a living.

Tom