Not that my focus on this or that issue has a significant impact on outcomes or policies, but since covid I have been giving very little attention to the problem of climate catastrophe. When I participate in rallies or attempt to influence our wonderful legislators, my subjects of concern have been (most recently) the genocide in Gaza, radioactive trash producing nuke plants/nuke WMD, and free speech — specifically the case of Julian Assange.
I appreciate your reminding readers of what is being ignored by MSM and all the nearly overwhelmed and satiated.
Your most powerful and spot-on “Report” yet. Missing a good tag to wrap it all up, however. Such as maybe: “It’s all so funny I wanna throw up.”
Actually, I like this image you started the piece with. Any way to expand this to the nation as a whole? I’m talkin’ one overwhelmingly huge NATIONAL regurgitation of the whole stinking fake-democracy capitalist-dictator imperialist system we’ve had shoved down our throats for more than 200 years. Dyspepsia! Terminal ulcers! Humongous bubbling indigestion culminating now in the senile end-of-all-life nausea of Fascist Donny and Genocide Joe. Time to expel it all!
How is it that white collar criminality buys respect in this country?
If one is poor, even if honest, hard working and law abiding, one is suspect. If, on the other hand one has loads of money, no matter how obtained, even if ill-gotten, one is respected.
The German Sociologist, Max Weber, around the turn of the 19th century proposed in his book, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" that the Protestant view was that the wealthy deserved their wealth because they were favored by God. The poor deserved their poverty because they had offended God by their sins.
Many Americans still buy this claptrap today. Trump deserves his wealth. And America deserves Trump.
America has been steamrolled by a bullsh*t myth of capitalist virtue. The rich get richer because they deserve it; the poor get poorer because they are criminal, reprobate and lazy.
Will America ever outgrow this puerile thinking. I doubt it.
The problem today is that proletarians really believe they have more to lose than their chains. And as the great American sociologist W. I. Thomas once put it, "If [people] define situations as real, they are real in their consequences". Where's Gramsci when we need him?
You really boiled it down Paul, to a few paragraphs naming the most important actions needed to arrest the rapid slide to the end of American empire; the collapse of the the dollar, leading to such collapses world wide, making aggressive war moves in at least 3 countries everyone knows plus others, inviting nuclear war to our current desperate reality And the possible the end of all Life on our planet.
And we can't even lock up the two heads of the deadly viper, the heads that have put the final life finishing touches on our current state of affairs. I get it! Gallows Humor.
I have one minor disappointment with this commentary, it is so accurate, so compact, so complete, so missing in the US that I cannot add anything that is necessary. Excellent Paul and immense thanks!
Not that my focus on this or that issue has a significant impact on outcomes or policies, but since covid I have been giving very little attention to the problem of climate catastrophe. When I participate in rallies or attempt to influence our wonderful legislators, my subjects of concern have been (most recently) the genocide in Gaza, radioactive trash producing nuke plants/nuke WMD, and free speech — specifically the case of Julian Assange.
I appreciate your reminding readers of what is being ignored by MSM and all the nearly overwhelmed and satiated.
Your most powerful and spot-on “Report” yet. Missing a good tag to wrap it all up, however. Such as maybe: “It’s all so funny I wanna throw up.”
Actually, I like this image you started the piece with. Any way to expand this to the nation as a whole? I’m talkin’ one overwhelmingly huge NATIONAL regurgitation of the whole stinking fake-democracy capitalist-dictator imperialist system we’ve had shoved down our throats for more than 200 years. Dyspepsia! Terminal ulcers! Humongous bubbling indigestion culminating now in the senile end-of-all-life nausea of Fascist Donny and Genocide Joe. Time to expel it all!
Oh what a relief it is. Cleanup on aisle 7.
Thnx. I want to write more pieces with a word count and rythm like this one.
I meant but forgot to do my usual finish, "Revolution, anyone? and will add it now.
you and Bob A are right; Revolution is the only answer and we better accelerate it now.
How is it that white collar criminality buys respect in this country?
If one is poor, even if honest, hard working and law abiding, one is suspect. If, on the other hand one has loads of money, no matter how obtained, even if ill-gotten, one is respected.
The German Sociologist, Max Weber, around the turn of the 19th century proposed in his book, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" that the Protestant view was that the wealthy deserved their wealth because they were favored by God. The poor deserved their poverty because they had offended God by their sins.
Many Americans still buy this claptrap today. Trump deserves his wealth. And America deserves Trump.
America has been steamrolled by a bullsh*t myth of capitalist virtue. The rich get richer because they deserve it; the poor get poorer because they are criminal, reprobate and lazy.
Will America ever outgrow this puerile thinking. I doubt it.
Genocide Joe's solution to global warming: nuclear winter.
Excellent post, as usual!
Great job as per usual Paul
The problem today is that proletarians really believe they have more to lose than their chains. And as the great American sociologist W. I. Thomas once put it, "If [people] define situations as real, they are real in their consequences". Where's Gramsci when we need him?
Always inspired by your prose Paul.
You really boiled it down Paul, to a few paragraphs naming the most important actions needed to arrest the rapid slide to the end of American empire; the collapse of the the dollar, leading to such collapses world wide, making aggressive war moves in at least 3 countries everyone knows plus others, inviting nuclear war to our current desperate reality And the possible the end of all Life on our planet.
And we can't even lock up the two heads of the deadly viper, the heads that have put the final life finishing touches on our current state of affairs. I get it! Gallows Humor.
I have one minor disappointment with this commentary, it is so accurate, so compact, so complete, so missing in the US that I cannot add anything that is necessary. Excellent Paul and immense thanks!