I just reviewed the video and don't at all get what you're saying,
though I have never read any of Hedge's books, and didn't know he helped
defeat Gore.
Are you saying that you disagree with the opening references to civil
disobedience? Was he saying that there's no other way in one of his
books or articles?
Natalia
On 10/12/2011 5:33 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
I don't agree with him that there is no alternative. He beat that
same dead horse when he helped defeat Al Gore and gave us George Bush
and the war. Democrats are lazy. Republicans are not. The
Republicans have won because they out maneuvered the Democrats and
they out organized and out theorized the Democrats on every point.
Obama held hope with his credentials and intellectual skills but he
has proven to be not up to the job. He was out organized by a
concert pianist, Sam Lipman, now dead, but who started the ball
rolling by capturing the wealthy by convincing them that the Democrats
and Liberals were the enemy of wealth. Sam Lipman was another
product of UC Berkeley just as were those two new millionaire
economists we spoke of yesterday. The stale stench is difficult
stay in the room with. I never was very good at it. I was
around during that whole thing and one day I will write about it from
the view where I sat. Sam was my coach for a time but he was a right
wing radical and his buddy Hilton Kramer and their magazine the New
Criterion served as the intellectual basis for the right until the
Koch brothers started Cato.
Hedges is articulate but not much use in this system. He is as out
of touch with the system as are the neo-Feudalists.
REH
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[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ed Weick
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:03 PM
*To:* [email protected]; [email protected]
*Subject:* [Futurework] Fw: Terrific commentary by Chris Hedges on the
Occupy Wall Street movement
From a freind.
----- Original Message -----
*From:*John McGrath <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:*Ed Weick <mailto:[email protected]> ; Caribou Stu
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:39 PM
*Subject:*Terrific commentary by Chris Hedges on the Occupy Wall
Street movement
Another voice from the barricades. First time I've heard a blunt
account of what is going on in "Occupy Wall Street". The
mainstream media have not told us much about this insurgency,
probably less than about the Arab Spring. Let's hope the movement
keeps up its momentum.
Hedges is the author of a number of great books, among
which_Death of the Liberal Class_ and_Empire of Illusion_.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_shares_his_thoughts_on_occupy_wall_street_20111007/
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