It is I Jack the Sailor, no not trolling. Just throwing out an idea to chew on. And yes it is other countries. Certainly Canada.

In hearing about Art Pope and his minions trying the cut the UNC university system while giving grants to NC State University to pay for "free market economists" to speak, I realized just how far it had come and ho pervasive it is. I think "Diamonds are forever" is a great example that part was advertising. Do you also remember Marilyn Monroe singing "Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend?" and all the TV shows and movies where the guy proposes with a diamond. and the "three months salary" guideline all of that was PR and I would wager, far more successful.

People in America, and in other countries, are conditioned to say "Free Market" as a religious market. My business professors and especially the Econ professors from the 1980 would laugh out loud to hear "Free Market" in the way Limbaugh or Mitch McConnell use it.

"Government is bad" is another example. We all make jokes with that theme. I would submit that we have been trained to do so. When I was young, such a joke would have had a good chance of being met with. "Government employees are hard working, educated professional people doing an impossible job, ie using scarce resources to try to satisfy everyone." And why not have people say that. It was true then. It is true now.

Gnu, do you hear untempered complaints about the civil service from those around you? You are pobably hearing the results of the PR. Do you laugh when Leno complains about the Post Office? You are mostly hearing the PR.

It is everywhere. It is ingrained. It is like the tide. I hope OWS has an effect before it is too late.