“only response is vicious revanchism and more wars; all at a time in history when wars are no longer affordable."
Wars are more than unaffordable - they represent devastating destruction beyond what humanity is already doing to this planet.
If, for instance, someone is proposing “universal income,” I would next ask, “What is your currency peg?” Because for certain, the System would eat that flow of money for lunch. Same scenario if someone is proposing a different voting scheme or political system - how do you propose coalescing enough power to actually govern? I‘ve worked in the system, exec committee for a federal riding assoc, I know what goes into the sausage. Andrew Coyne’s new book describe the problems somewhat well, but misses the deep connection to money, that to keep even the volunteer job at the local association, each exec member is expected to bring in $10K in donations from area businesses. Per month. Also, the articles by Andrew Coyne and Laurence Mussio in Saturday’s Globe and Mail Opinion section, are very good. But nobody reads newspapers anymore, which can be a means of transmitting elder’s knowledge to society.
The days when I read Jeffrey Simpson are long gone. Haven't been near that paper for years...always felt short changed. Coyne had a good video on You Tube but a little too circumspect for me. I like a steady diet of Paul Craig Roberts, Mike Whitney, Richard Wolff, and others.
That will be why you don’t see my letters and I don’t see yours! And you missed the excellent article by John Rapley about what could happen to Euroclear if the EU forces them to turn Russian deposits over to Ukraine. To understand how the sausage of the history of the present is made, you first remember what has actually happened, then read these MSM articles demonstrating the first-off entry into what’s recorded as history, then you have first-hand account of how history was twisted to the corporate narrative. You miss all that in a closed bubble of thought.
Just looked up John Rapley. New to me. Problem is there is so much out there. I have a back log of reading to do. I see a couple of his books that are must reads.
I don't think abolishing all political parties even begins to solve our problems. Rather...take serious charge against corruption, nepotism, oligarchy, dishonesty, theft. We seem to forget what integrity, morals, ethics are all about - our society is 'turning blind' and only sees that which serves its purposes. Our selfishness makes us turn inward and no regard for others.
Political parties as they exist now are pathetically anachronistic, corrupt and self-serving. Where there is the will to do so they can be reformed held accountable, responsible and representative.
At the same time corruptions of the collective West are so deeply embedded, so all pervasive, reform may be a long time in coming if at all.
The West has been under the crushing weight of predatory capitalism, naked imperialism,
neoliberalism et al for decades.
The question remaining is do we get to draw the line or has fate and fatalism already drawn it for us? Like this current blog suggests: Have we murdered too many monks and destroyed too many gas lights?
When we indulge in medieval barbarism it comes to define who we are.
“only response is vicious revanchism and more wars; all at a time in history when wars are no longer affordable."
Wars are more than unaffordable - they represent devastating destruction beyond what humanity is already doing to this planet.
If, for instance, someone is proposing “universal income,” I would next ask, “What is your currency peg?” Because for certain, the System would eat that flow of money for lunch. Same scenario if someone is proposing a different voting scheme or political system - how do you propose coalescing enough power to actually govern? I‘ve worked in the system, exec committee for a federal riding assoc, I know what goes into the sausage. Andrew Coyne’s new book describe the problems somewhat well, but misses the deep connection to money, that to keep even the volunteer job at the local association, each exec member is expected to bring in $10K in donations from area businesses. Per month. Also, the articles by Andrew Coyne and Laurence Mussio in Saturday’s Globe and Mail Opinion section, are very good. But nobody reads newspapers anymore, which can be a means of transmitting elder’s knowledge to society.
The days when I read Jeffrey Simpson are long gone. Haven't been near that paper for years...always felt short changed. Coyne had a good video on You Tube but a little too circumspect for me. I like a steady diet of Paul Craig Roberts, Mike Whitney, Richard Wolff, and others.
That will be why you don’t see my letters and I don’t see yours! And you missed the excellent article by John Rapley about what could happen to Euroclear if the EU forces them to turn Russian deposits over to Ukraine. To understand how the sausage of the history of the present is made, you first remember what has actually happened, then read these MSM articles demonstrating the first-off entry into what’s recorded as history, then you have first-hand account of how history was twisted to the corporate narrative. You miss all that in a closed bubble of thought.
Just looked up John Rapley. New to me. Problem is there is so much out there. I have a back log of reading to do. I see a couple of his books that are must reads.
I don't think abolishing all political parties even begins to solve our problems. Rather...take serious charge against corruption, nepotism, oligarchy, dishonesty, theft. We seem to forget what integrity, morals, ethics are all about - our society is 'turning blind' and only sees that which serves its purposes. Our selfishness makes us turn inward and no regard for others.
Political parties as they exist now are pathetically anachronistic, corrupt and self-serving. Where there is the will to do so they can be reformed held accountable, responsible and representative.
At the same time corruptions of the collective West are so deeply embedded, so all pervasive, reform may be a long time in coming if at all.
The West has been under the crushing weight of predatory capitalism, naked imperialism,
neoliberalism et al for decades.
The question remaining is do we get to draw the line or has fate and fatalism already drawn it for us? Like this current blog suggests: Have we murdered too many monks and destroyed too many gas lights?
When we indulge in medieval barbarism it comes to define who we are.
An ever latent barbarism.