A Financial Coup d’Etat, the Credibility Trap, and What Must Be Done
Courtesy of Jesse’s Cafe Americain
These two statements on the credibility trap and reform are from the bottom of my blog, and a permanent fixture to the layout of the site.
I wanted to take a moment to remind you of them, because they can be so easily overlooked. And they often are.
What I say in quite a few words, Chris Hedges says in a fairly pithy manner in the video below. And I think he is right. And this applies as much to Europe and the UK and the Mideast, including Israel, as it does to the US and the rest of the Americas. Of course one could name many other countries, such as Russia and China, but unfortunately they cannot fall from freedom, because despite the changes in names and slogans and the self-serving advertising campaigns of nationless corporate predators, they already have little or none.
The progressive movement lacks a spine for the moment, and is badly divided over a number of difficult issues which diffuse them, instilling hatred and fear in their hearts, driving out love, and leaving room only for a destructive pride and selfishness. And the timid thinkers, the so-called intelligentsia, hide in their studies and in their cellars, and in their work, waiting for someone else to do something.
Eventually progressive people will come together or, as Edmund Burke observed, “…they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
To those who say to hell with it, to hell with thinking, to hell with complexity, to hell with others, I say, be careful of the madness which you seek to unleash, because it will come back to consume you and your children, as it has done so many times before, and will do so inevitably again.
This is what I believe is happening now based on a careful reading of history.
This is not a prediction. This is a warning for a generation that is being prepared to accept the unthinkable on a much wider scale than they might imagine in their worst nightmares: torture, murder, ethnic cleansing, and repression. And what is most frightening of all is that they think they are immune to it, because they are so different, so special, so exceptional. And so they become willfully blind, and in their blindness, may…
2012-09-30 06:22:54
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