Day: 02/04/2021

CHRIS MARTENSON ~ THE CRASH COURSE ~ 2011

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~ TM-O-’FPOD’-H-LFIIID-A-N-MPIBGUP-MOAATH ~ The Media – Our – “Fourth Pillar Of Democracy” – Has – Largely Failed In Its Investigative Duties – And – Now – Mainly Provides Interesting But Generally Unhelpful Post-Mortems On Accidents After They’ve Happened

~ WIO-EP-EAM-S-RTB-TSCOHE-ARJ-A-AOO?-S-THEOSEPFTG?-IS-WHT-W/EC/SO-WTCBFBSREI?-WHT?~ What If Our – Exponentially Based – Economic And Monetary – Systems – Rather Than Being – The Sophisticated Culmination Of Human Evolution – Are Really Just – An – Artefact Of Oil? – Simply – The Human Expression Of Surplus Energy Pumped From The Ground? – If So – What Happens To – Wealth / Economic Complexity / Social Order – When They Cannot Be Fed By Steadily Rising Energy Inputs? – What Happens Then?

~ WNMTAIT-RTSTWTO ~ What We Need More Than Anything Is To – Reshape The Stories That We Tell Ourselves

~ WEATNRWMAB-TMDT-A-MHM-WBWTOT-TEOEBRAA-TNWIASOTE-IITOWA-TEIASOTNW ~ Where Economists Assume That Needed Resources Will Magically Arise Because – The Marketplace Demands Them – A – More Holistic Model – Would Begin With The Observation That – The Economy Only Exists Because Resources Are Available – The Natural World Isn’t A Subset Of The Economy – It Is The Other Way Around — The Economy Is A Subset Of The Natural World

THOMAS FRANK ~ PITY THE BILLIONAIRE ~ 2011

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~ SDA-B-BOTFOTP-NMBTD ~ Society’s Deterioration Accelerates – But – Blinking Out The Facts Of The Past – Nothing Matters But The Dream

~ WITPO-HW-O-SFAFDMASLHW-W-DFL-IS-P? ~ What Is The Point Of – Hard Work – Of – Scrapping For A Few Dollars More At Some Lousy Hourly Wage – When – Dishonest Financial Legerdemain – Is So –Profitable?

~ T-GOD-M-HBS-A-IMJ-TNAO-R-WF-C-CIIQ ~ The – Gospel Of Deregulation – Meanwhile – Had Become Such – An – Irresistible Methodological Juggernaut – That No Amount Of – Real-World Failure – Could – Call It Into Question

~ B-TB-A-B-A-J-RVCC-T-HPTTB-T-HDEW-TBCNBPTF-THTB-R-PU-DO-A-SBOITW-T-SABAFTHMF-AOA ~ But – Banks – And – Brokerages – And – Jerry-Rigged Venture Capital Concerns – That – Had Propelled The Tainted Boom — That – Had Done Everything Wrong — These Businesses Could Not Be Permitted To Fail – They Had To Be – Recapitalized – Propped Up – Dusted Off – And – Sent Back Out Into The World – To – Swagger And Bully And Fly That Huge Middle Finger – All Over Again

~ WHSU-ANPE-O-WTSC-’CH’ ~ We Have Stumbled Upon – A Nearly Perfect Example – Of – What The Sociologists Call – “Complete Horseshit”