Greetings good citizen,
I am unsure how to present this one because it poses the same problems we face when we look at the issue of what to do about the criminals running our government.
We certainly aren’t going to successfully separate money from electoral politics, we would need to create a ‘not for profit’ media to even attempt that.
More curiously, how far do you think a truly independent media organization would get before the capitalists crushed it?
Our Oligarchs (a.k.a. the >One Percent) don’t want the public informed of who is really responsible for our myriad problems!
If our oligarchs fear one thing it is a recurrence of The Terror…
With that fact firmly in mind, what are we to make of this latest exercise in ‘mental masturbation’?
You aren’t going to see a ‘non-profit’ press as long as the capitalists have something to hide.
C.K. Michaelson reminded me this morning that capitalists don’t have a ‘lock’ on unemployment, poverty and homelessness. The dictatorial regimes that called themselves ‘Communist’ in both Russia and China had their share as well…although it is interesting to note that the problems have gotten worse since they, er, ‘converted’ to capitalism.
At least communism nods at the notion of a shared fate. Wonder how the Chinese party brass reconciles that one to their rebelling public?
This presents a mathematical conundrum to those of us awaiting a ‘tipping point’. China has a roughly twenty percent prosperity rate with the eighty percent scraping by as subsistence farmers.
Um, is the key here the self-reliance factor, that a significant portion of the country still grows its own food?
Because we have a similar split labor force wise (considering half of our labor force is part-time) but the percentage of US citizens who are food self-sufficient is infinitesimal.
Across our ‘for profit’ culture only a tiny percentage of the population grows 100% of the food.
(Let’s not visit the issue of how much of it is grown and how much is whipped up in ‘vats’ just now…)
But let’s rewind a couple of steps to the idea of a ‘shared fate’.
This is something that the Capitalist and the Conservative both abhor and that is how our fates are 'intertwined.'
Ironically, they will be the last to admit that it is you (mostly your stupidity) that is responsible for ‘their’ success.
Your belief in their lies makes them rich!
Without you, they are nothing but common peasants, the very thing they abhor about YOU!
Worse, it is this point that they mince as proof of their ‘superiority’! YOU work for THEM! (They totally leave out the part where they sold you out to the king to obtain this envious position…no need to go there, right?)
But I digress.
Worse, I fear that even these simple concepts sail right over your heads.
There is nothing ‘natural’ about ‘the natural order of things’.
The self-important slime makes no objections to the idea of intertwined fates…as long as it is YOUR fate to SERVE them!
YOU weren’t born to be somebody else’s jackass!
Wake the fuck up, will ya?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
I am unsure how to present this one because it poses the same problems we face when we look at the issue of what to do about the criminals running our government.
We certainly aren’t going to successfully separate money from electoral politics, we would need to create a ‘not for profit’ media to even attempt that.
More curiously, how far do you think a truly independent media organization would get before the capitalists crushed it?
Our Oligarchs (a.k.a. the >One Percent) don’t want the public informed of who is really responsible for our myriad problems!
If our oligarchs fear one thing it is a recurrence of The Terror…
With that fact firmly in mind, what are we to make of this latest exercise in ‘mental masturbation’?
As the 2012 election crests with all its chaos—billionaire-driven TV ad wars, legal fights over voter suppression tactics, endless fundraising e-mails and worries about stealing the vote—progressives need to remember what’s been destroying our democracy and what solutions are needed to restore the balance of power in America.And once again I have to sit here and contemplate why it is so difficult for the average person to understand that NONE of this will change WITHOUT A FULL BORE, BLOOD IN THE STREETS REVOLUTION!
Now is the time to note precisely what’s wrong, what’s gotten worse and what’s completely broken in key corners of the electoral process. That’s because once the dust settles after Election Day, the impetus to fix things will wane among the political victors, media and much of the public, as it does after every big election. The winners will say there is not a problem because they won. The press will start covering the new administration. And weary voters will want to look ahead to solutions, not back to old problems.
That’s how our dysfunctional democracy may limp along until the next major election (the 2016 midterms) or a national crisis. But the first year of a presidential term is the most likely time that Congress might do anything on a big enough scale to touch the underlying problems because it’s the ebb tide in the electoral cycle.
You aren’t going to see a ‘non-profit’ press as long as the capitalists have something to hide.
C.K. Michaelson reminded me this morning that capitalists don’t have a ‘lock’ on unemployment, poverty and homelessness. The dictatorial regimes that called themselves ‘Communist’ in both Russia and China had their share as well…although it is interesting to note that the problems have gotten worse since they, er, ‘converted’ to capitalism.
At least communism nods at the notion of a shared fate. Wonder how the Chinese party brass reconciles that one to their rebelling public?
This presents a mathematical conundrum to those of us awaiting a ‘tipping point’. China has a roughly twenty percent prosperity rate with the eighty percent scraping by as subsistence farmers.
Um, is the key here the self-reliance factor, that a significant portion of the country still grows its own food?
Because we have a similar split labor force wise (considering half of our labor force is part-time) but the percentage of US citizens who are food self-sufficient is infinitesimal.
Across our ‘for profit’ culture only a tiny percentage of the population grows 100% of the food.
(Let’s not visit the issue of how much of it is grown and how much is whipped up in ‘vats’ just now…)
But let’s rewind a couple of steps to the idea of a ‘shared fate’.
This is something that the Capitalist and the Conservative both abhor and that is how our fates are 'intertwined.'
Ironically, they will be the last to admit that it is you (mostly your stupidity) that is responsible for ‘their’ success.
Your belief in their lies makes them rich!
Without you, they are nothing but common peasants, the very thing they abhor about YOU!
Worse, it is this point that they mince as proof of their ‘superiority’! YOU work for THEM! (They totally leave out the part where they sold you out to the king to obtain this envious position…no need to go there, right?)
But I digress.
Worse, I fear that even these simple concepts sail right over your heads.
There is nothing ‘natural’ about ‘the natural order of things’.
The self-important slime makes no objections to the idea of intertwined fates…as long as it is YOUR fate to SERVE them!
YOU weren’t born to be somebody else’s jackass!
Wake the fuck up, will ya?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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