I'll pity the rich, alright -- but only AFTER they are dispossessed.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Perelman, Michael <[email protected]>wrote: > The Shame Project took him apart. > > > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > michael dot perelman at gmail.com > Chico, CA 95929 > 530-898-5321 > fax 530-898-5901 > www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Grimes > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 11:35 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Malcolm Gladwell's New Book Asks Us To Pity the Rich > > > > Gladwell is a total dick. Here's my take on his technophobia: > > > > http://louisproyect.org/2010/10/17/revolutionary-politics-and-social-n > > etworking/ > > > The Internet has as revolutionary a potential as the Gutenberg press had > in the 1600s. Louis Proyect > > ------------ > > (I just realized the blog post on Malcolm Gladwell goes back to Oct 2010.) > > I could quibble, but won't. There are many other little notes that I agree > with, particularly the note on Lenin and the newspaper. From Trotsky's > writing, T was constantly getting a hold of a newpaper printing shop to put > out essays and diatribes for the cause, and usually lasted only a few > months until the authorities tracked down the shop and threw them out. > > Since I took printmaking and knew something about art printing, it was fun > to read about these fly by night news rags. The early 20thC presses were > technical marvels, but not that technical that the skills couldn't be > learned on the job pretty quickly. That kind of closeness between writing > and producing printed material made it a great medium for revolution. The > parallel isn't to social network media, but video, on line mags, email > lists, and blogs where the capacity is greater and you don't need to know > someone to get the information or produce it. > > ``That's the position we are in today. We no longer are at the mercy of a > crappy magazine like The New Yorker that propagandized relentlessly for the > war in Iraq. Through the Internet we can spread the word without relying on > the high priesthood of the corporate media..'' (LP) > > The addition of a central media source like AJE was (until it disappeared > into a cable show), a real hub of distribution. I could pick up a story > from them, watch a short documentary, listen to a panel, and then follow > events elsewhere. It really reproduced the Egyptian revolution live, so the > revolution was televised once. RT and France 24 were additional help on > some levels as was Democracy Now. They all came together again for events > in Europe and later in the US with OWS. > > The social media was good for sewing together a large crowd so it could > communicate with itself and attract, report, and interact with participant > families, friends, and of course be monitored by its enemies. > > You can bet that the NSA and Euro equivalents were working 24/7 + OT to > keep up with these events, their factions, and feeding the Egyptian > military, other Arab elite sectors, and Israel information---on one of > those `close ties' ... as well as ploting out somekind of foreign policy > response. > > When OWS hit the US, it took a few weeks to organize a unified national > reaction through police channels on how to deal with the small but > effective demos here. That's a story that hasn't been fully developed, but > it was apparent there was some kind of backdoor police collusion across the > country. At a guess it probably involved Homeland Security and the NSA > along with whatever federal agencies supply state police with their weapons > and communication infrastructure. The establishment reactions on the East > coast were far more coordinated than on the West Coast. I don't want to go > off the deep end conspiracy---but some kind of national coordination of > responses was going on. > > Really that needs to be investigated as a deep background story to > illuminate just how government agencies were involved. > > CG > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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