American Indians know full well that the government is the mask of the private sector that is engaged in a game of genocide for profit. It's a good guy, bad guy game played with essentially the same people in both structures. It's not a moietie but a Viennese masquerade party played by Aristocrats taunting the outsider. Why does the tea party's shirts seem so shit colored?
It makes diplomatic negotiation with large companies impossible because they are American but they are in process small country socialist structures. They are/ but they aren't America but they are but they aren't. Like they aren't big business but they are but they aren't. (lately their lobbiest have called some of America's larger business, "simple small business" in order to not pay taxes. It's a constant switching of masks. For a time, prior to the 1860s in the Northeast, there was the promise of something else but the nomad Robber Barons came back with a vengeance in the 1880s and have been here ever since. Today they live internationally and owe allegiance to no one but their International class. Chris calls them predators but in point of fact they are just small governments of their own serving their own needs in a perpetual war (competitive, litigious) societal structure. Lou Castaldi the late President of IBM World drew the comparison between IBM as a "socialist" government in structure when he said that the shareholders were equivalent to the Communist party as absolute rulers with the management serving as the politburo. But we, on this list, don't talk systems and processes, we talk theories and word games and the people with no power are still the serfs of the world and getting poorer. Is it any wonder that we have current Supreme Court Justices parading around doing what Abe Fortas was drummed out of the court for doing in the 1960s? The first place the world socialists went when they lost the election of Barry Goldwater was the law. They created the Federalists Society and worked secretly to "re-form" the courts in the Image of a Viennese Masked Ball and keep the serfs in their place. Democracy is "Their road to serfdom." From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:40 AM To: 'Keith Hudson'; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] No new consumer products But whatever their problems or shortages, they now expect the government to solve them. That's what governments are for, aren't they? ------------------------------------ In the absence of solutions to an itch that can't be scratched, government itself is all too often seen to be the problem. Arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:57 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] No new consumer products To discuss another of Pete Vincent's replies, I've started another thread. > What consumer products, presently enjoyed by the rich, await mass production? Well watered, warm sunlit land. We'll be waiting a while. Yes, this is about the only high status good left. And this, of course, is not mass-producible. (Even Picasso paintings and perfect diamonds could be mass produced if legally allowed to be.) It is this sort of limitation that the economist, Fred Hirsch, pointed out 40 years ago. A fully-functional, fully-democratic consumerist society implies a much reduced population. Five per cent of what it is now perhaps? (As far as England is concerned, a population about the size of that in Roman or Saxon times would do very nicely -- so long as you could share the land equally.) But today, with no uniquely-new potentially mass-producible high status consumer goods on the horizon -- as occurred all through the industrial revolution until about 1980/90 -- the natives are restless, though they are not precisely sure why in most cases. But whatever their problems or shortages, they now expect the government to solve them. That's what governments are for, aren't they? Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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