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08-04-2010, 08:21 PM
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kpete http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/donor.gif (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-03-10 10:37 AM
Original message Well, the coup d’etat is over, and they won. (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges: "We have to stop believing that we can effect change through established political or social organizations or electoral politics, and I think that still remains a huge hurdle for us people who in the end, through accommodation of fear and very clever advertising, are herded like sheep into a dysfunctional system, which is how so many people who should have known better voted for Obama. The environmental crisis that we're about to face will be even more catastrophic than the economic, and we have to, on a personal level, reconsider how we relate to the society at large and to the ecosystem. We have both personal and social decisions to make. At this point most people are not willing to make those choices or take those steps."
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Well, the coup d’etat is over, and they won. We lost. And now we have to learn to cope with it. It is very clear that the engines of corporatism and globalization are going to kill the ecosystem, no matter how many dead zones are created in the Gulf of Mexico or protests organized. We are going to have to make some very serious decisions about acts that dispute a system that in theological terms is a system of death and exploitation. And yet even then, it’s probably too late. If you read closely the science on global warming, it’s disrupting, even if we stop emissions, global warming will accelerate because of what has already been emitted. I think we have to begin to prepare for collapse, and if you want to survive, that’s going to mean access to a local food source. So, in the end I’m with Camus, I don’t think we’re going to fool ourselves into thinking we can make a change. It’s all hijacked, the political system, financial system ... hijacked military complex, it’s hijacked, even all of our social and educational systems. I’ve taught at places like Princeton and they all function like corporations. We’ve allowed these corporations to snuff out all voices of sanity and decency and why we listen to this garbage and why we watch it. ... Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are as bad as the right wing; they are all playing the same wing, nobody is addressing the institutional methods that are strangling us. I don’t care if it’s from the left or right, it all acts as diversion to keep us in a state of self-delusion.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/live_chat_chris_hed... (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/live_chat_chris_hedges_on_global_warming_20100721) /
disclaimer: I am a liberal. I read everything.(As long as it fits my moonbat agenda.) I digest and use what I want as fuel to fight another day.( As long as I can somehow blame Bu$h or the ReThugs.) I am not anti-Obama, anti-America, or anti-kittens. I just like to be fed, (But I'd like if someone, anyone else but me has to pay the bill.) kpete
kpete also wants a condo in Boca...a nice one. :D
kpete http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/donor.gif (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-03-10 10:37 AM
Original message Well, the coup d’etat is over, and they won. (Chris Hedges)
Chris Hedges: "We have to stop believing that we can effect change through established political or social organizations or electoral politics, and I think that still remains a huge hurdle for us people who in the end, through accommodation of fear and very clever advertising, are herded like sheep into a dysfunctional system, which is how so many people who should have known better voted for Obama. The environmental crisis that we're about to face will be even more catastrophic than the economic, and we have to, on a personal level, reconsider how we relate to the society at large and to the ecosystem. We have both personal and social decisions to make. At this point most people are not willing to make those choices or take those steps."
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Well, the coup d’etat is over, and they won. We lost. And now we have to learn to cope with it. It is very clear that the engines of corporatism and globalization are going to kill the ecosystem, no matter how many dead zones are created in the Gulf of Mexico or protests organized. We are going to have to make some very serious decisions about acts that dispute a system that in theological terms is a system of death and exploitation. And yet even then, it’s probably too late. If you read closely the science on global warming, it’s disrupting, even if we stop emissions, global warming will accelerate because of what has already been emitted. I think we have to begin to prepare for collapse, and if you want to survive, that’s going to mean access to a local food source. So, in the end I’m with Camus, I don’t think we’re going to fool ourselves into thinking we can make a change. It’s all hijacked, the political system, financial system ... hijacked military complex, it’s hijacked, even all of our social and educational systems. I’ve taught at places like Princeton and they all function like corporations. We’ve allowed these corporations to snuff out all voices of sanity and decency and why we listen to this garbage and why we watch it. ... Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow are as bad as the right wing; they are all playing the same wing, nobody is addressing the institutional methods that are strangling us. I don’t care if it’s from the left or right, it all acts as diversion to keep us in a state of self-delusion.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/live_chat_chris_hed... (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/live_chat_chris_hedges_on_global_warming_20100721) /
disclaimer: I am a liberal. I read everything.(As long as it fits my moonbat agenda.) I digest and use what I want as fuel to fight another day.( As long as I can somehow blame Bu$h or the ReThugs.) I am not anti-Obama, anti-America, or anti-kittens. I just like to be fed, (But I'd like if someone, anyone else but me has to pay the bill.) kpete
kpete also wants a condo in Boca...a nice one. :D