Chris Hedges has stirred up a mini epiphany in the blogger, especially considering the endless war-making that is employed in the name of corporate gain. I am always against war, whether it is apparently 'justified' or not. I hate war. I supposed that sometimes it is necessary, but only to a tiny fraction of the scale to which it is systematically carried out.
A couple more articles for your consideration can be found here http://www.biiwii.com/analysis.htm. The first, 'Going Apeshit' by James Howard Kunstler, shows the situation in cartoon-like fashion (a huge compliment, btw) as only Kunstler can. He also shines a light on President Obama's superficial attempt to align himself with OWS for political gain.
Then there is the boring stuff, compliments of Bill Bonner entitled 'The Real Problem the Wall Street Occupiers Have Missed'. This piece assigns blame where it belongs, with the corrupt monetary system under which we toil; an out of control system of credit creation (inflation) and equal and opposite impoverishment. Gold is a monetary revolution you know.
I realize I have trained myself - in the context of this blog and my financial market dealings in general - to be something of a robot; uncaring, unaffected and unbiased. But I am a human too. I first reacted against corporate evil-making by writing - a lot. Then I went to the 'dark side' and commercialized. I am no hippie, after all. I am a member of the capitalist, free enterprise community.
But I like to think I keep a moral compass in good working order at all times and right now, my compass is indicating that I should get off the high horse and get with what is going on here. The market needs cold, uncaring analysis. I can and will do that. But I think I am going to get my ass out of cyber space and into Boston so that I can view OWS without abstraction.
http://www.biiwii.blogspot.com
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A couple more articles for your consideration can be found here http://www.biiwii.com/analysis.htm. The first, 'Going Apeshit' by James Howard Kunstler, shows the situation in cartoon-like fashion (a huge compliment, btw) as only Kunstler can. He also shines a light on President Obama's superficial attempt to align himself with OWS for political gain.
Then there is the boring stuff, compliments of Bill Bonner entitled 'The Real Problem the Wall Street Occupiers Have Missed'. This piece assigns blame where it belongs, with the corrupt monetary system under which we toil; an out of control system of credit creation (inflation) and equal and opposite impoverishment. Gold is a monetary revolution you know.
I realize I have trained myself - in the context of this blog and my financial market dealings in general - to be something of a robot; uncaring, unaffected and unbiased. But I am a human too. I first reacted against corporate evil-making by writing - a lot. Then I went to the 'dark side' and commercialized. I am no hippie, after all. I am a member of the capitalist, free enterprise community.
But I like to think I keep a moral compass in good working order at all times and right now, my compass is indicating that I should get off the high horse and get with what is going on here. The market needs cold, uncaring analysis. I can and will do that. But I think I am going to get my ass out of cyber space and into Boston so that I can view OWS without abstraction.
http://www.biiwii.blogspot.com
http://www.biiwii.com
Hmm, a passionate mob with a loose collection of directives who feel subjugated by a minority group - I worry where this leads to once the charismatic leader steps in and provides focus and a plan.
ReplyDeleteI guess the hope is that the charismatic leader will not be able to co-opt. If the charismatic leader is not careful with this, he could become a charicatured leader.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading some interesting analysis of OWS by John Robb at his blog (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/). Author of the book, "Brave New War", he's a retired military spec-ops guy and tech entrepreneur. The book opened my eyes in regards to this era of fourth generational warfare and what it means to complex nation-states and globalization. Highly recommend the book, it's a fast but intelligent and info-packed read.
ReplyDeleteBriefly, he's not as concerned with what fills the void after - a significant fear of mine, I admit. Rather, the open source, co-opt resistant nature of the global movement will lead to collapse of the nation-state, globalization and Statism. His view of the future will require resilient community building and community economies. Started another site on building resiliency: http://www.miiu.org/wiki/Main_Page
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SG, what you describe - though I have not read the John Robb - is the reason I live in a rural (former farm & pig town) enviro, have generator, wood stoves, ammo, a want for chickens (if I can convince wife), garden, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat you describe fits with a scenario that sees much pain on the way to a better place. Society curing itself. Resiliency, self and community dependence... stuff like that. I am going to check out your link.
Nicely done. I've been down a #OccupySF (San Francisco). It's quite a mix of people. Students, professionals, a few scruffy types. Virtually all of them are informed to some degree of how tilted the financial system and govt. have grown in favor of those who have a voice by paying for access. I found it made me feel less alienated and angry to be around so many people who were not on auto-pilot. Please let us know how your experience goes.
ReplyDeleteJames Quinn of The Burning Platform chronicled his day investigating OWS (much like you mentioned you're going to do, Gary - kudos for that, btw). I'm heading over to Occupy Seattle to do the same.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I thought is was a good read:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=23205
In the last week I have gone from pompous and dismissive blogger to potentially enlightened blogger. I hope this proves to be big. I hope to get in there on Saturday.
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