Who recommended last week that I read Richard Wolff’s “The Sickness is the System?”

I finished it and am ready to discuss!

Also, this book is a good introduction into the deficiencies designed into our social and economic lives. Without fail, attempts at correcting social and economic failures are made by treating symptoms rather than by recognizing the underlying design of the system. Inequality, racism, poverty, loneliness, etc cannot be managed with palliative care.

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”

Joshua, Wargames.

On nuclear war and traditional finance.

“Your enemy is not China. Your enemy is not Russia. Your enemy is the military-industrial complex.”

https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1621195819998232576?s=12&t=kvqyWrWT6Hk7dwCXyf5-tA

That’s how bills work isn’t it. Call it one thing, and inject a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with it but serves the rich and powerful

https://twitter.com/bitpaine/status/1639348978784563200?s=61&t=kujYquCOtBCPmDPUKDNqIg

“Our overorganized society, in which large-scale organizations predominate but have lost the capacity to command allegiance, in some respects more nearly approximates a condition of universal animosity than did the primitive capitalism on which Hobbes modeled his state of nature. Social conditions today encourage a survival mentality, expressed in its crudest form in disaster movies or in fantasies of space travel, which allow vicarious escape from a doomed planet. People no longer dream of overcoming difficulties but merely of surviving them”

Christopher Lasch

The Culture of Narcissism

Tell a homeless person that it’s not his fault. The system is designed to maintain an indigent population. This serves the interest of the few. The most prosperous society would allow everybody to participate.

“Protection from the internet” gives justification for adding controls and restrictions to internet liberties.

“Protection from shitty lunches” helps our most most vulnerable to get nutrition. That doesn’t enrich anybody.

Raccoons purr just like cats when you pet them

A requirement of the exportation of inflation is to create energy and food dependence around the world.

Bitcoin mining can be done far from centralized energy plants, using small, local, and sustainable energy sources. This pushes back on energy dependence on US-controlled petroleum.

That’s a picture of all of us

With thousands and thousands of laws, every person is unknowingly doing illegal things every day.

With perpetual surveillance, every action is documented for some hypothetical point in the future where a man challenges power. At that point, his past indiscretions can be pulled up from Google and used against him.

#Assange

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Spoiler alert: Homer never left waters of Ithaca. He got lost day one just outside the sight of land, just like Penelope said he would. Embarrassed and defeated he spent a week making up a salacious and entertaining story just so he wouldn’t have to admit he was lost.

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There’s a new translation out by Emily Watson. Thought I might read it this weekend. Are you reading this one?

If I could zap every prisoner, I would.

They make 10-25 cents/hour, and pay extravagant prices for basic needs like toothpaste. If they get out, they’re still tied to a system designed to get them right back in.

Slave labor is illegal…unless we write laws to justify it. Then it’s ok.

To push back on the unfair treatment of Ross, and Assange, and thousands of dissidents out there that are being punished for the wealthy’s want of a power monopoly, we have to push back on the etiology of power.

The legal humanization of non-human corporations, which will never work for social good but pursue profit at the expense of social good, opens all areas of independent life to the exploitation of the rich.

Imperialist behavior by the military, which serves resource extraction and the exportation of inflation, funds exploitation at home.

The government uses constant “wars” to justify its existence and its taxes on the masses.

The War on Drugs is one of the most effective. Keep people in fear, and the government can spend billions on militarizing the police and on limiting access to cash. They can justify tracking and CBDC’s. They can increase their incarcerated population on demand of the prison system by slight alterations of what constitutes a crime.