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.
Depends how we measure the word better, doesn't it? Because we're not the happiest, freest, most literate, most food secure, or the healthiest people on the planet despite decades of imperialism and plundering (Not to mention nonstop status quo propaganda). I also find it peculiar how we spend so much energy fucking with those other so-called inferior systems you speak of.
There is only one measure of better and that is freer. When free people are able to freely associate and self-govern, then great things can happen. When corrupt and greedy agents infest that system, like they have in the US post-WWII, well, you're seeing what happens, the Detroitization of the entire nation.
Look, the "imperialism" state is what Trump ran against and why he was popular, he was borne of the TEA party reaction to the 2000s wars. The swamp is what is corrupt, which is why we were fed years of anti-trump propaganda and now why we have citizens being deplatformed, jailed indefinately, and a continued corporate media barage of anti-Western propaganda.
Yeah, the military-industrial-social media complex is rotten to the core, but that's got nothing to do with the concept of capitalism, you see the same crap in dictatorships, commies, etc. The brand of governance doesn't change human nature.
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.
Depends how we measure the word better, doesn't it? Because we're not the happiest, freest, most literate, most food secure, or the healthiest people on the planet despite decades of imperialism and plundering (Not to mention nonstop status quo propaganda). I also find it peculiar how we spend so much energy fucking with those other so-called inferior systems you speak of.
There is only one measure of better and that is freer. When free people are able to freely associate and self-govern, then great things can happen. When corrupt and greedy agents infest that system, like they have in the US post-WWII, well, you're seeing what happens, the Detroitization of the entire nation.
Look, the "imperialism" state is what Trump ran against and why he was popular, he was borne of the TEA party reaction to the 2000s wars. The swamp is what is corrupt, which is why we were fed years of anti-trump propaganda and now why we have citizens being deplatformed, jailed indefinately, and a continued corporate media barage of anti-Western propaganda.
Yeah, the military-industrial-social media complex is rotten to the core, but that's got nothing to do with the concept of capitalism, you see the same crap in dictatorships, commies, etc. The brand of governance doesn't change human nature.
I suppose you have
I suppose you've lived in a system that offers more choice than Capitalism?
In my country, there's medicare for all and I have the choice of hospital and doctor. I wouildn't mind other socialist measures like that.
Ever been to an electronic store in Beijing?
Every been to a public school in Baltimore? How about a free clinic is east LA? We have free stuff, too.
biden's open borders and welfare state and unconscionable budgets will make sure that even the best of the free stuff will become unsupportable.
Pay attention, the US is about to do what Detroit did 60 years ago, go from an amazing place to a broke and (more corrupt) Sh!$hole.
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