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Financial Corporations are the Problem, Really
Well, I think that rather than attacking big business in general, I would go after large private financial interests in particular. They are ones who are running our economy -- and running it into the ground. Of course, these days the financiers own the largest non-financial corporations so......
I also agree with the point that most minds are clouded by popular opinion from the mass media. People think of themselves as "consumers" rather than human beings. They think they were born to consume and born to be entertained. Rather than confront a corrupt political and declining economic structure, they would escape into fantasy of various types. This includes some forms of religious fundamentalism.
posted by
writersjourney
on January 20, 2005 at 4:45 PM
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Courage, Kooka
Do what you can. I completely agree with you on this one. I've spent many nights fantasizing of the "American Revolution" where people stop consuming from the Greedy Corporations--but, we are a weak willed people, sigh, and have to have our Starbucks espresso every morning or our Gap jeans or gadget of the week on infomercials. To have this revolution, we would have to go through withdrawl worse than DT's. Credit cards cut up, budgets followed, the word "No" enter our vocabulary. Suffer layoffs in the hundreds of thousands while the cushioned wealthy wait for us to come crawling on our knees begging for a job, however humiliating it would be. We are a nation of prostitutes and Big Business is our Pimp. Actually, prostitutes are more honest in what they do, at least it is natural. Consumerism is unnatural and manufactured dissatisfaction.
If you want to read of courage in this self-destructive society, I recommend this site (a former Blogit member):
http://www.shawnmichel.com or http://www.livejournal.com/users/shawnmichel/
a real hero cut loose on society.
Peace,
FR
posted by
freerain
on January 19, 2005 at 3:07 PM
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and i never took you for a
revolutionary
maybe a ride
you're attacking the American way of life kid.
they'll start calling things that end with "ist" (well you're one of those already) -- but other things.
and I can see you being blacklisted -- McCarthy type stuff.
keep up the good work, kid.
I'm totally in agreement.
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 19, 2005 at 2:24 PM
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SHHHHHHHHHH
they might call you dirty names
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 18, 2005 at 8:38 AM
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