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17. The National Amnesia

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 27, 2026, 09:29 AM

11 hrs ago

It is the year 2026 and high officials in the US government ask "how can we make multiples of an industrial product?" Not that we should be awash in armaments and making war on this day. But wow... do we need to restore this country's industrial base or not? I mean you can go to Colonial Williamsburg and see a guy shoe a horse and heat up the horseshoes in a furnace! But we have laptops in landfills but NO RECORDS of how an early 70s factory manufactured vacuum cleaners, or how a Saturn V rocket was built? We just FORGOT and dumped all that knowledge into landfills and then start firing off cruise missiles and say... "Hey could you order some more up from China?"

Every American Needs to Be Aware of This book
“Apple in China,” Patrick McGee

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