Our whole organized socioeconomic apparatus expanded into the twenty-first century on this basis
The Bad Hand
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-bad-hand/
American elites conditioned the American people not to foresee the problems that have led to our decline on the world stage.
Our whole organized socioeconomic apparatus expanded into the twenty-first century on this basis: financially, militarily, in entertainment, commerce, culture