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Originally Posted by freebeard
Why not both?
Similar to building freeways for the cars that will inevitably fill them up?
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A) To Eisenhower, highways were a matter of national security.
B) National security is a matter of state.
C) No government can ignore matters of state.
D) Before WW-II, industry was already in the planning stage for a post-war economy.
E) As to credit for mindless consumer capitalism, that more an offering of an 'opiate' that everyone would take to, regardless of stripe.
F) Thomas Jefferson's 'frontier' had closed by 1900, and the government had to create a frontier of the mind to take its place. Hedonic adaptation took the place of physically moving away from society. Mad men were thus born. Design obsolescence. Want vs need. Credit vs thrift. 'Movin' on up!'