Wow... Hear's A New Year's Message For Ya...'We値l Take a Cup of Kindness Yet' - FDL

[WillyT]

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We値l Take a Cup of Kindness Yet
By: Rusty1776
Friday December 31, 2010 12:06 pm

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Too many New Year痴 Eves will come and go before humanity drinks from that Cup of Kindness Robert Burns spoke of in his classic poem, Auld Lang Syne. When that day comes, it will be because people in this degraded world finally listened to writers, poets, singers and songwriters, who致e been the conscience of humanity ever since the lies of the first kings ignited the first wars and four thousand years of killing for gold and power began on the ancient battlegrounds of the Middle East.

In Artists of Resistance, http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0708-04.htm Howard Zinn emphasizes the critical importance of artists who communicate universal truths through poetry, music, and literature. They have always spoken truth to power, their voices are needed now more than ever, as shock doctrine capitalism intensifies and humanity itself is targeted for destruction. If we keep retreating, if we keep surrendering without a fight because fighting back might offend the criminals who are beating the hell out of us, all that is human within us will die, it will be gone forever, and the nightmare world of 1984 will become reality.

George Orwell . . .

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

A corporate final solution on a global scale. The ultimate holocaust.

Chris Hedges . . .

We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through sensual gratification, cheap mass-produced goods, boundless credit, political theater and amusement. While we were entertained, the regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled, the laws that once protected us were rewritten, and we were impoverished. Now that credit is drying up, good jobs for the working class are gone forever and mass-produced goods are unaffordable, we find ourselves transported from Brave New World to 1984. The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war, and corporate malfeasance, is sliding towards bankruptcy. We are moving from a society where we are skillfully manipulated by lies and illusions to one where we are overtly controlled.

More: http://my.firedoglake.com/rusty1776/2010/12/31/we%E2%80%99ll-take-a-cup-of-kindness-yet/

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[jaxx]

1. That's a tremendous amount of negativitiy coming from 3 people.

If I was a believer in those parodies I'd be crying right now. Instead I'm just grateful that I've never caught that debilitating disease.

[MineralMan]

2. We're all doomed. There's nothing to live for. We're all going

to Hell in a handbasket. Oh, woe is me!

Feh! I reject all of this doom and gloom, and plan to keep right on trying to improve this world.

[WillyT]

4. Sure... But You Want To Work WITHIN The Status Quo...

As soon as the Obama Administration seizes, let's say... Bank of America, for foreclosure fraud, and throws some CEO's in prison after "clawing back" their bonuses... I might get back on board.

But small nibbles around the edges of a GIGANTIC problem, intended to ensure the permanence of corporate rule, does not inspire me in the least.

:shrug:

[MineralMan]

6. Yes, since the government of the US is what it is.

What's your plan? How do you plan to change things?

Any details will be much appreciated, if you have them. So far, all I've seen is complaints and doom and gloom from you. Let's hear how you think things can be changed, for once. Personally, I think it's all blabber, so I work to get as many Democrats elected as possible. But, I'm just a lowly DFL precinct chair, so my sphere of influence is very local.

But, by all means, let's hear what you want to do. You post a lot of stuff that other people say. What do you say? What's your plan?

[WillyT]

7. First Of All... That's Not My Job...

I didn't go to Harvard, did not run for office, and do not have the entire world of experts, advisers, and information (classified or otherwise) at my disposal.

Somebody else has that job, and I voted for him based on the things he told me needed doing, and that HE said he was gonna get done.

What I would SUGGEST he do... since the campaigning for 2012 starts pretty soon, is demonstrate by words and deeds, which side of the class war he is on!

I would do what FDR did by hiring Joe Kennedy.

Kennedy's first major involvement in a national political campaign was his support in 1932 for Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for the Presidency. He donated, loaned, and raised a substantial amount of money for the campaign. Roosevelt rewarded him with an appointment as the inaugural Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kennedy had hoped for a Cabinet post, such as Treasury. After Franklin Roosevelt called Joe to Washington to clean up the securities industry, somebody asked FDR why he had tapped such a crook. "Takes one to catch one," replied Roosevelt.<12>

Kennedy's reforming work as SEC Chairman was widely praised on all sides, as investors realized the SEC was protecting their interests. His knowledge of the financial markets equipped him to identify areas requiring the attention of regulators. One of the crucial reforms was the requirement for companies to regularly file financial statements with the SEC, which broke what some saw as an information monopoly maintained by the Morgan banking family. He left the SEC in 1935 to take over the Maritime Commission, which built on his wartime experience in running a major shipyard.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.

I'd get Joseph Stieglitz, Paul Krugman, William Black, Elliot Spritzer and others to team up with Elizabeth Warren into an Economic Kitchen Cabinet, and I'd put the corporations on notice that they ain't running the show any longer...

And... I'd have regular public appearances (Press Conferences, Addresses to the Nation, even Fireside Chats) keeping the nation informed on how the rich and corporate America are coming to the aid of the Nation that has GIVEN THEM SO MUCH!!!

Or... how much they are not!

For starters.

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[whathehell]

3. K & R...Good post. n/t

[marmar]

5. Reading Chris Hedges' pieces is sometimes very painful.......

...... but very necessary.

[girl gone mad]

8. The good news is that the young people I know are not at all in denial about this.

They know that the modern corpora-fascist paradigm benefits only a tiny minority at the great expense of the economic and ecologic health of the rest. Maybe it's because they've grown up in fairly unstable times, their brains are able to process and adapt to uncertainty in a way that many who grew up in an era defined by conformity and comfort simply cannot.

This is what keeps me hopeful.