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Posted by floatingbridge on December 14, 2011, at 15:37:44
This is Bill Moyers' preface to a new book on corporate power in the United States.
Posted by sigismund on December 19, 2011, at 18:08:07
In reply to Corporations are not people my friend, posted by floatingbridge on December 14, 2011, at 15:37:44
I can't immediately recall the program...it was that film about the GFC. There were all these top academics and insiders who, when it came to any discussion of conflict of interest, were completely without shame and seemed to regard the whole concept as pitiable.
People will do anything.
Have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccsNr9UJeVY
It reminds me of Nadezda Mandelstam saying to a colleague who was in tears at Stalin's death....'What are you crying for, you fool?', and upon being told 'Things could always get worse' remarked 'She had a point'.
Posted by floatingbridge on December 21, 2011, at 1:53:23
In reply to Re: Corporations are not people my friend » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on December 19, 2011, at 18:08:07
I hadn't seen that clip.
I recently looked up the word placebo. One origin was the term for hired mourners. The word meant 'to please'.
One day I was contemplating how trashed my state has become. Let me just say the ubiquitous plastic bag lodged in a tree or road side. Whatever. Plastic drink rings, etc. Pacific trash gyre. Then there is always the problem of my sucking life. So I am siitting by the bay, when a man maybe my age approaches, Asian, wants me to take his picture with the bay and the far mountains behind him. Turns out he is from North Korea, and he is almost holding back tears as he looks around us, exclaiming how beautiful it is. He's looking at me like I'm a millionaire.
I don't believe in things being meant to happen, but I believe in taking good advantage of accidents. I have never sunk to such disregard again. Saddness, anger, yes. There are frikkin trees full of bags on our freeway now. We do not haventhe tax dollars to send road crews out to pull the detritus of our senseless mania out of the branches.
I am living in someone's heaven.
Posted by sigismund on December 21, 2011, at 19:53:24
In reply to Re: Corporations are not people my friend » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on December 21, 2011, at 1:53:23
In Kathmandu I went to buy some Thankas somewhere on a hilltop. I met there, in a rooftop restaurant, a man I took to be Japanese but who was a US citizen. Half the year he was a substance abuse counsellor in the Bay area, and the other half he spent walking around India looking for Tantric Hindu temples. He ewas only in Nepal to refresh his visa. He had no luggage. He just walked around.
We had a great conversation.
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