266) Day 34 -- Reason #34 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism:  Politic-speak -- e.g., Doug Ford

266) Day 34 -- Reason #34 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Politic-speak -- e.g., Doug Ford

One of the key problems with Predatory Capitalism, which connects with our previous discussion of Manufacturing Consent, is that the people we elect to be in charge of our system, don’t speak the same language we do.  They speak the language of politics.  NOT the language of common sense, the language of everyday people, the language of integrity, or even the language of basic logic.

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169) The despair you are feeling right now:  Dead children, bombed hospitals, the lies of tyranny in a dying world, and the crushing hopelessness of “What the hell can I DO about any of this?”

169) The despair you are feeling right now:  Dead children, bombed hospitals, the lies of tyranny in a dying world, and the crushing hopelessness of “What the hell can I DO about any of this?”

What can we do, in the midst of a genocide?  What can we do, in the midst of tyranny that’s been happening, and strengthening, since before we were born?  We can we do, in a world that burns its own living flesh, due to the greed of the most-privileged minority who clamour for ever-more wealth and power?

None of us want this.  

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91) The great unraveling:  A horror story of life on Earth

91) The great unraveling: A horror story of life on Earth

When I started teaching at the UofT, in 2002, I still believed a citizen-led evolution of politics would be enough to reinvent the economy and turn things around. Not in time to save the natural world as we used to know it, but in time to save enough of it that we wouldn’t experience large-scale collapse, leaving humanity to fight each other for the scraps left on a dessicated, charred planet.

I still try my damnedest, day to day, to believe that, because giving up that belief is to give up the belief that “we will make it”. But honestly? Most of me doesn’t believe that anymore; I just cling to it in order to stay somewhat sane in the face of a global holocaust.

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13) I put Donald Trump in the White House

13) I put Donald Trump in the White House

As the ‘elites’ — the progressives, the highly educated, the celebs, the newspapers, the cultural genius-figures like Stephen Hawking and Noam Chomsky, etc. — increasingly came out against Trump, disagreeing with his ideas but also emphasizing his seemingly awful and indeed, terrifying nature as a human being, what they/we were doing was building our own WALL, a wall between “us” (the enlightened, smart progressives) and “them” (the bigoted deplorables).

And all of the people on the Trump side of that wall — how do you think they reacted to being told they were idiots and assholes?

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