Well, that's what we hippies and the student activists were saying in the 60s. The difference between us was that we hipppies believed in not cooperating with the system in any way (or as much as we could: no driver's license, no bank accounts, no voter registration - we were suspicious then of government spying - no conventional job with a paycheck, etc) and the student activists believed in fighting the system directly. We both knew then that hegemony would be the ultimate goal.
Now I see people calling for those of us who want change to form communities that build their own social structure of peace and I have to laugh to myself, because that's exactly what we hippies did. And we were laughed at then.
If you or Feral ever have a chance to read Prof. Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism, you'd soon realize Americans only pay with their health and lives, mostly of the poor so it's quite tolerable - even enjoyable to watch on the boob tube. The rich not only don't pay, but profit.
So who pays? Every nation that runs a trade surplus with the USA and so has to recirculate that money in to Federal Bonds. When their leaders try to get off the treadmill, USA usually kills them. This time China, Russia, and India may be too big to take out, we'll just have to wait and see.
Thank you for the reference. I will try to find it in the library.
And I agree with every word you say.
I've thought for a long time that the US can go around the world and bully each individual small country one by one, but if they all join together and come at us, we would be conquered.
And we should be doing something about it on the inside because our government is doing this stuff in our names, and as long as we let them get away with it, we are complicit.
Well, that's what we hippies and the student activists were saying in the 60s. The difference between us was that we hipppies believed in not cooperating with the system in any way (or as much as we could: no driver's license, no bank accounts, no voter registration - we were suspicious then of government spying - no conventional job with a paycheck, etc) and the student activists believed in fighting the system directly. We both knew then that hegemony would be the ultimate goal.
Now I see people calling for those of us who want change to form communities that build their own social structure of peace and I have to laugh to myself, because that's exactly what we hippies did. And we were laughed at then.
If you or Feral ever have a chance to read Prof. Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism, you'd soon realize Americans only pay with their health and lives, mostly of the poor so it's quite tolerable - even enjoyable to watch on the boob tube. The rich not only don't pay, but profit.
So who pays? Every nation that runs a trade surplus with the USA and so has to recirculate that money in to Federal Bonds. When their leaders try to get off the treadmill, USA usually kills them. This time China, Russia, and India may be too big to take out, we'll just have to wait and see.
Thank you for the reference. I will try to find it in the library.
And I agree with every word you say.
I've thought for a long time that the US can go around the world and bully each individual small country one by one, but if they all join together and come at us, we would be conquered.
And we should be doing something about it on the inside because our government is doing this stuff in our names, and as long as we let them get away with it, we are complicit.