Does "cooperative" include being forced to cooperate?

Does "community" mean the loss of privacy?

Does "family" mean making more babies?

Does "equal distribution of wealth" mean taking away the savings of the established old and giving it to young people so that they can make even more babies (then the more babies they make, the more distribution is required)?

The 1960's-1970's were indeed great in many ways, but then people like mice and rabbits used the good economic conditions to multiply, resulting in the fast-paced competitive society that we now sadly face and about which the author complains.

Agree, its crazy to import stuff we can grow or make here.

The ideal of a fair go we used to enjoy and " GEEN IDEOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES," are not mutually compatible.

Yes the clock can't be turned back, but successful principles that always, always work even in a very different world, can be modernised and reapplied to create a better world for us and ours than that which prevails in the 50-70's!

Scrambled eggs that are plainly rotten need to be jettisoned into the garbage bin of history!

So we can start with a clean sheet and determine our own path! Starting with tax! Which ought to be no more than 15% tops and not kick in below $50,00.00 per. Trebling the economy is the way to build quite massive surpluses, even with a very fair low and single, essentially unavoidable tax, taken from those who can afford it!

All profit demanding middle men, with their worthless paper shuffling/secret commissions need to be outlawed!

Which will effectively halve the cost of living or doing business all while adding quite massively to discretionary spending! Given it removes significant cascading and money churning from the economy!

And as a first order priority, roll out thorium powered power! No, not because it's carbon free super fuel, although essentially desirable! But because it provides the cheapest possible power to grow the economy, without any non essential imported population growth!

Lastly embrace your own people and their better ideas, which as to include deionization dialysis desalination and just help as and where necessary.

And preference cooperatives and family startups as being the most efficient and enduring private practise, free market reliant, capitalism, competing for unfettered domestic market share, all while dominating internationally against all comers!

Finally crack on as rapidly as possible with decentralization, and just by rolling out rapid rail and giving various underutilized regions indeterminate tax holidays until they become self regenerating regional economies!

Seems like a pretty fair go template to me!? But that's just my view and divorced from any and all ideological imperatives/disingenuity.
Alan B.

The corollary to what Yuy writes is that "as children are our future"
more babies also means a faster path to the extinction of Homo Sapiens and all other living animals on this (once) lovely planet.

Correction and apologies, $50,00.00 Ought to be read as $50,000.00!
Alan B.

We need to work out what passes for 'fair' these days. “For too many people fairness seems to be taking from the 'haves' and giving to people who make little attempt to better their lot, happy to bludge on people who have actually worked for what they have.

“... workers got too greedy and provoked inflation...”. Yes, but so did the businessmen employing them – whacking prices up, and paying managers ridiculous salaries.

The real problem seems to have been the 'gimme, gimme' attitude of the masses; the desire for instant gratification and the need to have immediately what previous generations actually waited for and saved for.

Now, two incomes is not enough to satisfy the needs of ordinary people who have little wealth, earned or inherited.

Geoff Davies bleats that it “was not our doing”, which is total bulldust: it was our doing. Western politicians simply did not have the guts to stand up to the oil cartels and international pirates. They couldn't say no to globalism – greed again. And, the people who said “government is bad” were right! The market is the only thing that works.

Today's problems lay fair and square with the cultural Marxists, most of whom are academics like this fellow. Who else could deny the the free market is the path to growth and prosperity than someone who knows nothing about the real world, outside academe? Government intervention has never worked. The man must be away with the fairies.

The “misguided ideology” is all his.