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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Chris Hedge's On Rebellion

I am reposting this article from last night. In my opinion it is one of those on the mark important articles.

Chris Hedge's has done an excellent job of presenting and summing up our collective problems, identifying why these problems can't be affected by the two political parties, how democracy is dying, and what we need to do to keep from dying ourselves.

Its a harsh article in the sense that the present political and economic reality is harsh and getting worse. This is hard to truly accept.

Truthdig: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
The economy is in the hands of corporate swindlers and speculators. And the public, enchanted by electronic hallucinations, remains passive and supine. We have no tools left within the power structure in our fight to halt unchecked corporate pillage.

We have reached a point where stunted and deformed individuals, whose rapacious greed fuels the plunge of tens of millions of Americans into abject poverty and misery, determine the moral fiber of the nation.

Our worst premonitions are becoming reality. Our intuition has proved correct. We are reaching the breaking point. An explosion, unless we halt the increased pressure, seems inevitable. And what is left for those of us who cannot embrace the contaminants of violence? If the system shuts us out how can we influence it through nonviolent mechanisms of popular protest? How can we restore a civil society? How can we battle back against those who will mobilize hatred to cement into place an American fascism?

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Chris seems to have given up on getting any meaningful change out of the present set up. I don't blame him. The games rigged and if you don't have the $$ large amounts of it your not even allowed on the field. The American system is broken or is it? For the Corporatist Right it's getting better every day.

Jim Sande said...

Where's the democracy?

Glynn Kalara said...

It's a cashocracy dude, cash and carry Congress and WH.,State housess etc. et al. Gov't paid for by the people (taxpayers) for the Corps. by the Corps. ( the BIG people.) In a winners take all game.