Big giveaway: Horton has never lived in Russia. Apart from the very clear life expectancy under Yeltsin issue, it always absolutely amazes me the inability of establishment writers to see things from the perspective of the downtrodden. Just perhaps the idealism of the Soviet writer arose because he just might, possibly have been from a peasant family under the tsars whose life would have been basically a Romanesque living death from start to finish? (Short, brutal and .. etc.). So whether or not that idealism was misplaced is immaterial: Why not cut the Soviet writer some slack? Hope for this person and for a lot like him was evidently possible in that place at that time, and justifiable. In the USA at the same time (the 1930s)? Not so much, and US life expentancy supports that. So why not take the Soviet writer at his word? Because he is … Russian?
Shall we talk about failed experiments? Then we can start rather closer to home for Horton, with an experiment started by man by the name of Beveridge and ending with a woman by the name of Thatcher. That is a failed experiment with no excuses: There has been no mass genocide or economic attack in the UK since the NIH was founded, if I recall correctly.
Finally here is Steven Seagall visiting the terror attack victims, it looks pretty high tech to me:
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