We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Coming Soon: Corporate Tools To Hollow Out National Sovereignty

Click here to access article by Wolff Richter from his blog Testosterone Pit.
Most corporations don’t care about things like changing the name of a high school that honored a Confederate General. On topics like these, they allow democracy to do its job in its messy manner that is so dear to us. But when it comes to regulations, taxes, subsidies, and other goodies, they try to control the agenda.
I've got news for Richter--they already do control the agenda. Corporations have been gradually securing their control over society for the past 150 years. It's like the frog in boiling water parable, and it has been happening rather slowly so that most people haven't noticed. And, of course, it was never reported in mainstream press--the better to keep people ignorant of what was happening. Now that the end game is appearing and can no longer be denied, it's obvious that capitalism has been the biggest con game in human history. Some people think that it is now too late to do anything about it, which is a good excuse to do nothing.
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