incredibly perceptive

INCREDIBLY PERCEPTIVE

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

This book was published in 1995 or 1997.

I as most knew about Carl Sagan and his PBS series about the cosmos.

He was apparently a well rounded intellectual and did have the capacity to recognize what would be happening in the future based upon what had happened in the past and was happening in the present in his lifetime.

Unfortunately, people like him and especially Ayn Rand are not listened to by many of the population until it is too late. Of course, Ayn Rand was expressing her observations of what was the root cause of businesses going offshore; and that was government interference of businesses.

I have pointed out that as much as the politicians talk about it companies that have been buying production from sources outside the shores of the USA are not interested come what may in bringing their production back to the USA.

Prior to the pandemic setting in the economy of the country and I believe world was on the down swing, the pandemic was the icing on the cake. People were losing their jobs as many retail operations large and small were closing. The pandemic as we all know sped up the process dramatically.

So, the thought of bringing production back to the USA was shelved if it actually existed.

Since it is very obvious the mail order businesses are doing well and therefore in order to survive these companies that have been getting product from offshore should start producing on shore. As far as I see there is limited production going on offshore these days because there are very few retailers if any in a position to buy product at this time. The coronavirus is the culprit to have caused all of this and I do not believe it will change any time soon, so on shore production is the best way to go. It will also employ American people.