I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT

I’m waiting for the fulsome eulogies of David Koch from our ballet companies, which were among the cultural institutions Koch used as fig leaves for his apocalyptic greed and fanatical insistence that humans’ future should be sacrificed to it.

What Koch threw at the cultural scene was a drop in the bucket relative to the amount of billions he accumulated through climate-destroying industries, and a drop in the bucket compared to what he spent buying off the Republicans and hard-wiring nihilism into the GOP platform.

Harsh words, but true.

Reviewing the new Kochland, Jane Mayer writes in The New Yorker: “If there is any lingering uncertainty that the Koch brothers are the primary sponsors of climate-change doubt in the United States, it ought to be put to rest by the publication of ‘Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,’ by the business reporter Christopher Leonard.”

Ryan Cooper in This Week:

“One underrated part of extreme inequality is how it warps the public discourse. In this case, two ultra-rich men with a bottom line to protect were able to spend so much on propaganda, campaign donations, university donations, and so on that they turned the brains in one of two American political parties to rancid tapioca. A nation with an egalitarian income distribution is one in which regular people have a much greater freedom to think.”

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