This is how the human race will destroy itself:

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16911-financial-totalitarianism-the-economic-political-social-and-cultural-rule-of-speculative-capital

[Mahalo]

I thought it was going to be mandatory listening to Barabara Ann 30 times a day.

[oldsurferdude]

I thought it was going to be mandatory listening to Barabara Ann 30 times a day.

Close, but no banana. More like mYke's intro for BTTYS on a tape loop 24/7.

[Alex]

I thought it was going to be mandatory listening to Barabara Ann 30 times a day.

Close, but no banana. More like mYke's intro for BTTYS on a tape loop 24/7.

WWHHHHHHEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNN WHHHHHEEEEEENNNNNNNN WWHHHHHHHEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNN ad infinitum...

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Hawwww hawwww hawwwwww

It is a long article, but someone should at least read the damn thing

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Read it the other day and haven't had time to reply until now. This is right on the money, as far as I'm concerned and remarkably frightening. Someone the other day asked me to tell him what I thought the real problems are and this is certainly a significant aspect of it. Financial institutions largely control our lives and what's clear is that they don't particularly care about our lives and because unregulated and unbridled capitalism is typically disastrous, we all get put increasingly more at risk.

As far as I'm concerned, these are the things we should be talking about and getting angry about but, of course, since it is in the interests of the ruling authority that we don't pay attention to it, we are directed to comparatively more trivial issues (see most of the other political threads for examples).

[Dunderhead]

Eh, it's our own fault for overriding the limitations on government power in the constitution in pursuit of delusive welfare improving projects that were largely designed and lobbied for in the first place by the very corporate institutions we're angry with.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Eh, it's our own fault for overriding the limitations on government power in the constitution in pursuit of delusive welfare improving projects that were largely designed and lobbied for in the first place by the very corporate institutions we're angry with.

Such as?

[Dunderhead]

Interstates, the federal reserve, the department of urban housing and development

[Dunderhead]

I think you could really benefit from reading The Aesthetic Education of Man R&R.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Interstates, the federal reserve, the department of urban housing and development

OK, so let's get rid of all that and then what? You pay less taxes suddenly? ..... Um, no.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Interstates, the federal reserve, the department of urban housing and development

I'm uncertain what these examples have to do with what we're talking about. In fact, the kind of thing in that Pinder is talking about has been part of the American economic plan since the beginning when Alexander Hamilton enacted protectionist policies to help businesses in the early days of post-Empire U.S.

I think you could really benefit from reading The Aesthetic Education of Man R&R.

Since that text does not describe corporate tyranny nor does it mention anything about the Federal reserve, the department of urban housing, etc. I'm not entirely sure how it is relevant here.

[Dunderhead]

You never know, you might learn something

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

You never know, you might learn something

Why don't you try explaining something we might learn instead of just listing off what doesn't work and who's fault it is?

Something tells me RnR's already read the book anyhow.

[Dunderhead]

You sound like you have a little crush there on R&R, how cute

[Dunderhead]

You guys ever read Meister? Oh man I love Meister

[hypehat]

rockandroll does know what he's talking about, unlike the libertarian crew here. But then you all love big business - TRBB, for example, thinks the 1964 Civil Rights Act should be repealed because it gives minorities a legal recourse against business owners who discriminate against them. Oh no, poor business.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

You sound like you have a little crush there on R&R, how cute

I dunno.... Ted Danson's pretty dreamy himself

[Dunderhead]

rockandroll does know what he's talking about, unlike the libertarian crew here.

Could be, don't know if you're the best to judge that though 

[hypehat]

Trust you to pick the Ted Danson character no-one likes or remembers fondly, I'd have gone for Sam Malone myself....

[hypehat]

....but then Sam Malone was a c*** too, so I guess sometimes you can't win.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

....but then Sam Malone was a c*** too, so I guess sometimes you can't win.

The Danson mug certainly doesn't help his case...

Who was it who had David Leaf as his avatar pic a while back? I remember his posts making me instantly livid before I even read them

[Dunderhead]

Becker is the funniest tv show there's ever been by a wide margin.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Becker is the funniest tv show there's ever been by a wide margin.

Wasn't Dr. John Becker a liberal atheist on that show?

[Dunderhead]

A failing you and he both share. Modern atheists...