Re: Now let's kick big business

On Feb 23, 11:56 am, Dave J. <requ...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:07:19 -0800 (PST), in uk.philosophy.humanism, 'Dave

Smith' wrote:
Do you really believe the 'wealthy controlling classes' are plotting
together against the rest of us?  This sounds rather like a paranoid
conspiracy theory to me.

Surely this is quite obvious? You really do need to read Rorty! His
final essays in PSH have some superb arguments against the wealthy
elite.

No conspiracy is necessary, the actions of major limited companies are
strictly predictable, they're set up to function under strict rules of
operation. The (must) act like robots, gradually becoming larger and
larger by whatever means is possible, without ever showing any
consideration or humanity. Discreet cooperation between the owners is a
sideways way to enhance that process.

But behind these robots are human wills, the wills of a relentless
elite that care nothing for the environment or the poverty stricken,
but only care about increasing their own power and wealth. Otherwise
why are there still starving children in the world? There's plenty of
money, man-power, and food to feed them all. It's just the will isn't
there. Any communal will from 'right thinking' people has been crushed
by the neocon military-industrial-academic-media complex..

And it's not a 'class' it's a smallish group with a grey boundary, those
with varying degrees of control over the multinational PLCs.

Small compared to the mass of the population, but still far too large
in absolute terms! Look at the crowd of suits in 'the city'. They are
all part of it, or clamouring to be part of it. Carnivorous beasts in
pin-stripes. Bankers.

There *is* an unspoken war, originally between our elected governments and
the major companies. These days the elected governments have realised how
much their maintenance of position benefits from help from the media
giants and that all it costs is reciprocal assistance. Thanks to that
symbiosis they can no longer be counted as being on the side of the
population.

That's suggesting governments have any power to alter things. Given
the international nature of the global marketplace all the power is
with the multinationals. If a government takes them on, they take
their money and power elsewhere and that country dies. So they say.
Look at New Labour and Tories. They are even saying we can't reduce
the bonuses of the failed bankers because they will 'go elsewhere'.

Hear the bankers laughing as they burn the money of the poor and take
any money that the poor still have.

And government does nothing.

We need to tighten our belts, and say.

'Let them go, and good riddance'.

We need to stand against the multinationals with other right-thinking
countries, even if it means reducing our personal wealth for a short
while. Our wealth will just go to the bankers anyway.

We have nothing to lose by ditching the multinational elite, and
everything to gain.

Hence my saying that the political parties are slowly being '0wned' by the
congolomerates.

Slowly? They are already largely owned by them.



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