Europe is not an empire. My thought is that a heavy application of this "pleasure restriction mindset" is one of the things that is necessary to make an empire work. Without it, there would be too little willingness to go along with the American heirarchy, imperial machinery which is dedicated to more efficiently exploit (economically) the rest of the world.
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Date: 2004-12-03 12:21 pm (UTC)Europe is not an empire. My thought is that a heavy application of this "pleasure restriction mindset" is one of the things that is necessary to make an empire work. Without it, there would be too little willingness to go along with the American heirarchy, imperial machinery which is dedicated to more efficiently exploit (economically) the rest of the world.