In his book entitled, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, John Ralston Saul profiles certain technocrats from the latter-half of the 20th Century whose devotion to systems and theories have led our “promising” civil society down the path to perpetual war, economic tyranny, and pernicious dogma. Now, in the first decades of […]
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(Tea Party 1 : Tea Party 2) To the offended: You may be adamantly against the recent stimulus packages and bailouts of Big Business (as proffered by GWB and BHO), but if you are a laissez-faire capitalist or corporate libertarian, you are a porter for economic tyranny (as in T-Party) whether you admit it or
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(*with proxy claims for equal human rights! Goes way beyond a “board” game.) Note: (All ECON sketches may be used pursuant to the Creative Commons License noted herein.)
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~ Reference: 1) http://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-we-serfing-yet.html 2) http://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/04/vc-bill-of-goods.html
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~~~So many of my acquaintances are panicked by government power (with some considerable justification), yet blasé (to the extreme) regarding the corporate giants who massage the backs and egos of elected officials. Giants who supply-line election and PAC coffers; giants who demand and receive favors; giants who even write legislation. Does it not seem strange
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Corporations—those bastions of hierarchy, planned economy, command-and-control, short-term rationalizing, meritorious disparity, creative accounting, externalized costs/internalized profits, and enforced consensus—ARE emphatically (you will be pleased to know) none of the above. They have changed. Transformed completely. They now believe in transparency, in democracy, and in YOU, the free consumer. YOU dictate what they produce (via China,
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