The "journalists" who cheer the persecution of Assange sleep safe in their beds, because they never will write so much as a syllable that their masters would not approve of.
"Don't side with the powerful against the less powerful." In his memoir, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "I venture to express the hope that the Court's decisions always will be controversial, because it is human nature for the dominant group in a nation to keep pressing for further domination, and unless the Court has the fiber to accord justice to the weakest member of society, regardless of the pressure brought upon it, we never can achieve our goal of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' for everyone." From: The Memoirs of Earl Warren (1977) page 335.
Capitalism's biggest glow-in-the-dark tell is how it treats other countries: if you're on board with America's economic and thus military agenda, you can murder tens of children at a time (Israel) or throw homosexuals off of buildings with impunity (Saudi Arabia); if not, then you're sanctioned (Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Russia) and the results of those sanctions are highlighted on the cover of the NYTs and on CNN as the natural faults of their alternate economies.
The scooped out nature of the sort of human being who thrives in such a system is indeed chilling. Before a word salad is heard a moral salad is necessary.
I feel remiss if I didn't add that your closing paragraph revealed such humanity and common sense that it perfectly highlights the stumbling shitshow we've come to accept as normal. Thanks again for wielding an unflinching mirror.
Critics who say capitalism merely needs to be better controlled: You need to read "The Enemy of Nature" by Joel Kovel. One of the most thorough demonstrations that capitalism MUST end, and will surely do so, but probably as a result of Big Extinction #6. Here's a short review:
Joel Kovel also wrote one of the best books on the USA/Western collective psychosis about "Communism" and the necessity of its total eradication from the galaxy. See "Red Hunting in the Promised Land".
Both these books are quite "old" but come from a time when good writing got published and favorably reviewed EVEN IF against the grain of current narratives.
if biden gets what he wants, you're going to be very happy to have 100 choices of affordable nutrition.
We effectively, now, have one crappy political party - a group of greedy sociopaths with no concern for the people other than how they are best manipulated into maintaining their power.
...and amazingly, even that is better than most other systems we've seen.
Any system which culminates with bestowing the rights of an individual person on a corporate entity is due for some mighty close scrutiny. Happy to deal with the Russian Whole Foods kerfuffle once this is completed.
Capitalism addresses human duplicity with violence, the threat of extinction. Creative destruction is necessary. Do or die - animal spirit. All systems and plans are destroyed by every individual’s duplicity and that is natural because as individuals we need duplicity to survive in the ecosystem of other equally or more duplicitous humans.
The "journalists" who cheer the persecution of Assange sleep safe in their beds, because they never will write so much as a syllable that their masters would not approve of.
Those "journalists"...sleep safe in their beds because...we, the people, let them get away with telling us lies.
"Don't side with the powerful against the less powerful." In his memoir, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, "I venture to express the hope that the Court's decisions always will be controversial, because it is human nature for the dominant group in a nation to keep pressing for further domination, and unless the Court has the fiber to accord justice to the weakest member of society, regardless of the pressure brought upon it, we never can achieve our goal of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' for everyone." From: The Memoirs of Earl Warren (1977) page 335.
Three gems in a row, Caitlin, but who's counting?
Capitalism's biggest glow-in-the-dark tell is how it treats other countries: if you're on board with America's economic and thus military agenda, you can murder tens of children at a time (Israel) or throw homosexuals off of buildings with impunity (Saudi Arabia); if not, then you're sanctioned (Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Russia) and the results of those sanctions are highlighted on the cover of the NYTs and on CNN as the natural faults of their alternate economies.
The scooped out nature of the sort of human being who thrives in such a system is indeed chilling. Before a word salad is heard a moral salad is necessary.
I feel remiss if I didn't add that your closing paragraph revealed such humanity and common sense that it perfectly highlights the stumbling shitshow we've come to accept as normal. Thanks again for wielding an unflinching mirror.
Critics who say capitalism merely needs to be better controlled: You need to read "The Enemy of Nature" by Joel Kovel. One of the most thorough demonstrations that capitalism MUST end, and will surely do so, but probably as a result of Big Extinction #6. Here's a short review:
https://peterwebster.substack.com/p/the-enemy-of-nature
Joel Kovel also wrote one of the best books on the USA/Western collective psychosis about "Communism" and the necessity of its total eradication from the galaxy. See "Red Hunting in the Promised Land".
Both these books are quite "old" but come from a time when good writing got published and favorably reviewed EVEN IF against the grain of current narratives.
"...make [clean] air, [good] food, and [clean] water human rights."
A system where, theoretically, a group of people VOLUNTARILY pool their resources to achieve more than they could on their own is never a good thing?
I thought that was the definition of socialism...
In capitalism, most people contribute to the wealth of a few people because they have no choice
? Capitalism allows for more choice than most/all other systems. Ever been to a Whole Foods or a 1985 USSR bakery?
Yes, we have 100 choices of cat food, but only two crappy political parties. Explain, please.
if biden gets what he wants, you're going to be very happy to have 100 choices of affordable nutrition.
We effectively, now, have one crappy political party - a group of greedy sociopaths with no concern for the people other than how they are best manipulated into maintaining their power.
...and amazingly, even that is better than most other systems we've seen.
I suppose you have
I suppose you've lived in a system that offers more choice than Capitalism?
Is there only one way to go about pooling resources?
Voluntarily? I don't think so, but maybe. Forcibly, all kinds of ways.
Any system which culminates with bestowing the rights of an individual person on a corporate entity is due for some mighty close scrutiny. Happy to deal with the Russian Whole Foods kerfuffle once this is completed.
Capitalism addresses human duplicity with violence, the threat of extinction. Creative destruction is necessary. Do or die - animal spirit. All systems and plans are destroyed by every individual’s duplicity and that is natural because as individuals we need duplicity to survive in the ecosystem of other equally or more duplicitous humans.
It would be the same if you had power.
I seem to recall a prison sentence hanging over my head every time I sit down to pay my taxes. As a result, I pay them "voluntarily."
It focuses the mind