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How do we get from here to a happy ending?

the 1% whose interest is to remain in denial will be on a shrinking floe, and the fact that they own the tradmedia will gradually count less, as more and more formerly comatose corn-sumers connect the dots and fel their gorges rising at the necessarily more absurdist arguments to buttress the Big Illusion, think berlusconi levels all over.

i'm betting on a few major strikes and/or uprisings similar to paris '68 or the thatcher era, as services are cut, and the best case scenario is that very few will be enough to make governments quake, and even rule of law quail.

at this point cool heads intervene to avoid massive bloodshed, and that is the moment when folks like those here at ET will be there to redesign capitalism from the ground up.

the worst case, well better not to go there...

as long as there's a chance of the former emerging from incipient chaos, i'll bet on that, long odds it would seem, lol.

the majority of people are reasonable and would like nothing more than to get on with their lives of needing, seeding, feeding each other in peace.

they don't need no stinking ideologies that can't fit on one page, understandable by the average 8 year old.

the turning point would be when the media loons like limbaugh are run out on a rail for being frenzy whippers, and right wing corporate attitudes about war, land, capital and privilege are dismantled beyond recognition, cognition kindled in the kind of numbers that presently show up for the lottery, or a michael jackson retro network special.

distractions like that will not suffice pretty soon.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Oct 15th, 2009 at 01:12:03 PM EST
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You say dystopia, I say utopia...

the majority of people are reasonable and would like nothing more than to get on with their lives of needing, seeding, feeding each other in peace.

That should be saved to the Pearls folder.

It should also be polynomially graphed. The majority which is made up by those who can do, those who fear they can't (and would vote against their class), those who don't care either way but try someother things...

they don't need no stinking ideologies that can't fit on one page, understandable by the average 8 year old.

the turning point would be when the media loons like limbaugh are run out on a rail for being frenzy whippers, and right wing corporate attitudes about war, land, capital and privilege are dismantled beyond recognition, cognition kindled in the kind of numbers that presently show up for the lottery, or a michael jackson retro network special.

distractions like that will not suffice pretty soon.


The amazing thing is looking at the profit points that make the nickel cigar 15 dollars these days. All the money in playing out or printing those ads, in creating those ads, in paying the limbaughs with 400 million dollar contracts (which implies that there are those above him who are making more), the gigantic sums that are swirling in the sports cage, the cosmetics and other drug cages...

I suppose you are saying that having a nother few wars aren't  distracting enough any more either?

Imagine the profit he makes in order to have a contract for 400 million dollars.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland

by siegestate (siegestate or beyondwarispeace.com) on Fri Oct 16th, 2009 at 04:35:34 AM EST
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he has to be paid that much, or they wouldn't be able to point to him as the future of the GOP on fux noos

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Oct 17th, 2009 at 07:40:15 AM EST
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