The Archeology of Decline: Debtpocalypse and the Hollowing Out of America
Reprinted from Tomdispatch.com By Steve Fraser “Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a terrifying slide to the pit at the bottom. Grim as these scenarios might seem, there is something confected about the mise-en-scène, like an un-fun Playland. After all,…