Noam Chomsky wrote: > People rightly want answers, and they are not getting them
... from Predators Plan A (Reps), Plan B (Dems) nor Plan C (Chomsky). > Ridiculing Tea Party shenanigans is a serious error, however. It is > far more appropriate to understand ... Predators as a whole, including Plan B + C. > Yet it can be said that the corporate high rollers have a > valid defense against charges of "greed" and disregard for > the health of the society. Their task is to maximize profit > and market share; in fact, that's their legal obligation. If they don't > fulfill that mandate, they'll be replaced by someone who will. They also > ignore systemic risk: the likelihood that their transactions will harm the > economy generally. Such "externalities" are not their concern-not because > they are bad people, but for institutional reasons. Do we really need a "dissident of Capitalism" to parrot the "forced by the Invisible Hand" PR? With "dissidents" like that, who needs a Tea Party? > I am just old enough to remember those chilling and ominous days of > Germany's descent from decency to Nazi barbarism, to borrow the words of > Fritz Stern, the distinguished scholar of German history. In a 2005 article, > Stern indicates that he has the future of the United States in mind when he > reviews "a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted > secular world found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason." How ironic to read that from a denier of the modern Reichstag fire (9/11) truth. > The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless > lessons to keep in mind as we register the consequences of another election > cycle. Yes indeed, but Chomsky doesn't tell them. > No shortage of tasks waits for those who seek to present an > alternative to misguided rage and indignation, helping to organize the > countless disaffected and to lead the way to a better future. Doesn't he include himself among those? No surprise really... > c The New York Times News Service/Syndicate > > ___________________________________________ > > Portside aims to provide material of interest to people > on the left that will help them to interpret the world > and to change it. Oh yeah, leftists certainly need the _NYT_ to help them to interpret the world and to change it! "All the news that fits the establishment"! What a bunch of Orwellian clowns. It's an Outrage how they Misguided! Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
