between ARGeezer:
We still have to figure out if we can save both the troubled portion of the existing financial sector and "the rest of the economy" in any given country or zone. If we cannot, is there any chance of figuring that out in time to save either? And what would be required politically for a government to decide to save the "rest of the" economy?
and this earlier quote i posted from stan goff
melo:
This extractive praxis inherently destroys biotic systems -- whether it be the body of a cow, or an entire ecosystem -- because no biotic system can survive being stripped for specific "high value" parts. Ecosystems, like animals, function as a whole. The rates of return demanded by finance capitalism are inherently incompatible with the rate of solar return expressed by natural growth patterns in biotic systems.
A rapper can say things about his 'opponent' that, said directly, would result in gunplay.
There is a whole list of Chinese movies that were critical of the Mao and Post-Mao period - at the time - that were political allegories, if you understood the symbolism. The scripts for these movies were so successfully obfuscated that they passed the censors. You can't be me, I'm taken
That which can not be said, can be said if it is space movies with apes and robots.
