or the reason we are living in an updated form of a Tale of Two Cities. The
internet use to show hope of changes based on people listening and
empowering each other. Instead, people can say its a conspiracy and prove
it
but if legislation says judges can mandate hedge funds anyway and
polluters
can't sue even after wining their cases, then obviously freedom means
squat.
Internet is free way to get people to invest in manipulated stocks and
hate
each other and watch ****, exactly as the powers that be want it.
<maxdenton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Mar 29, 4:19 pm, "Lets Roll" <letsr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Capitalism arose from industrialism without any particular framework or
> values. It was sometimes given lofty virtues by observers, much as
> conservatives do to this day, but social and environmental values were
> never
> intrinsic. Capitalism simply emerged.
> No one said, wouldn't it be cool to have a juggernaut economy of
> unprecedented productive capacity that destroys the capacity of every
> living
> system on Earth, where over 90 percent of the world's wealth would be
> concentrated in the hands of 2 percent of the people, and the other 98
> percent wouldn't mind because they were being anesthesized by shopping
or
> the eventual prospect of having more material goods.
> My comment that capitalism might be a good idea is a rhetorical jab at
the
> extreme internal contradictions of the present system. It is, in Hazel
> Henderson's words, a system where the divine rights of kings have been
> replaced by the divine rights of capital (money)".
>
> "I am certain of only one thing; that business as we know it is
destroying
> the Earth including all cultures and living systems, and never before
has
> there been a system so ubiquitous, so destructive, and so well managed.
It
> is our creation."
>
> "Our goal has been money - period. We got it. ...
>
> So the good news is that when Americans set a goal, they usually achieve
> it.
> The problem is that we set such petty goals."
>
> I've come to realize that those who look to the soulless legal
instrument
> of
> the cor****ation as a source of leader****p toward restoring the life of
> planet and community look in the wrong place. The cor****ation is a
> creature
> of money, not life, and as such it will always put money's interests
ahead
> of life's interests.
>
> http://www.futurenet.org/article.asp?ID=752
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