by Flemming Funch
Jon Husband on Wirearchy says:"Short of a really serious, all-stakes-on-the-table World War (which is not an option, nor thinkable, really) ...
the only way that there will be real and substantive change to the current plutocracy's rule of both the USA and (by economic domination) the rest of the world will be through purposeful and concerted action enabled by wired-together people and information.
Any other form of real change that conceivably could happen involves collapse, I think - of the economy, or the environment. And neither of these should be the target of purposeful and concerted causative action."
Hm, you're right. The self-serving rulers of the United States might cause economic or environmental collapse or world war. And one might help them along to their ends. But that wouldn't be very sensible, as it would be very painful one way or another. So the only real alternative is that sensible well-connected people get better organized and better informed. The only alternative is that the people figure out how to be The People, instead of being ruled by a few unsuited leaders who's main asset is their own tunnel vision of power.
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