Matt Taibbi writes about the underlining truths in the global financial crisis - it is about power. Power does what it wants. His title for the piece is "The Big Takeover" but since this post isn't carried by Rolling Stone and isn't read by anyone besides me I'll call it "The Big Rapeover."
And if you don't think this is a rape then read this.
Cold-blooded elites rule this country and this world. They have little to zero sympathies for the vast majority of human beings. It's been two hundred years since Blake and Shelley, but not much has changed, conditions for the poor have gotten worse, the bank's tyranny has reached whole regions of the Earth with the noble exception of a few pockets here and there, mostly in Latin America where numerous leaders of nations are resisting. The one great change that has taken place in the last two hundred years is the level and precision of propaganda in society. In 1809, people were politically ignorant but nowhere near as much as today since in that period the enlightenment was still in the air and people were familiar with liberal ideas. The generations that witnessed the American and French Revolutions were around and in leadership positions in society. The major point is not that people have become ignorant over these two hundred years, but they believe their informed and thus hold an opinion. The people are not lacking a general awareness but they carry in their minds a false awareness and this is largely because of television, but that doesn't explain everything. People today are not ignorant or poorly informed, they are the victims of heavy doses of propaganda. Effects of the press on the mind has been huge, the news makers in the 20th century were the king makers. Without Murdoch, there would be no Bush. If human culture and human civilization is to persist in any sort of healthy way, the influence of the press must be curtailed, once and for all. Dismantling large corporations who have illegally gained control of the airwaves must be number one on the public agenda of any potential presidential candidate.
The time of being meek has passed, it has left us without power, and without a world. All solutions from here on must be radical or they're not solutions but temporary fixes. The time of staying silent has passed, or else days of violence may come and that will truly be tragic.
