Thursday, June 02, 2005

 

Capitalism R.I.P.

The 20th Century saw the death of one "economic religion", now it is time for the other one to be put to rest.
Had an interesting start to my day. I know that most people would consider themselves to be "thinking people" and if indeed you are then I would strongly encourage you to go to Jay Hanson's thought provoking site. It will take some time. There is a lot of pretty heavy stuff there. I would especially recomend this article as well as this foreboding article, from where I copied, to quote Jay "America's overall political structure is something like this (this is not a "model", it's a "heuristic")

The rich minority determines the "logic of profit":
America’s laws and trade agreements regulate the overall workings of society at a highly aggregate level. (The rich rule the poor by virtue of the First and Fifth Amendments.)

Large corporations:
Large corporations are autonomous technical structures (machines) that follow the "logic of profit" inherent in their design. Those that don’t are cancelled by bankruptcy.

Media:
Corporations hire media to program the "consumers".

Consumers:
Consumers do as evolution and the media have programmed them: consume their own life-support system and elect the "traitors".

Elected traitors:
Traitors do what they were elected to do: sell the commons to corporations for personal gain. Those who don’t are cancelled by campaign advertising.

Sardonic but reflects reality. I cannot fully agree with Hanson and found this 'long' article about him comforting.

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