Video: Thomas Frank: Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, 58 min

Video: Thomas Frank, Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, CSpan, June 27, 2018, 58 min
https://www.c-span.org/video/?447453-2/rendezvous-oblivion#

This is what society looks like when the glue fails, a time of cascading collapse, a golden age of corruption when the human intellect serves money or it serves nothing at all

In the 1930s and 1940s, there was a sense that we are in this together, a defacto social democracy. A sense of social solidarity has nearly disappeared as people identity upwards and the right-wing ideology of victimization spreads. We are like buffaloes nestling with the rifles.