https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy
This. Is. One of the Best. Hidden Political History. Ever.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy
blew my mind. see also anything else by thom hartmann and the Lewis Powell memo. and The Democracy Project by David Graeber (buy it at a used bookstore with cash)
Digital detritus = SO not important. … i mean RELATIVELY. Trust me.
Go live your life, insofar as you are able to, friend :-)
Find an actual sharing group like #BuyNothingProject or #ToolLendingLibrary or something crew to kick it with.
or https://shareable.net for reading (been ages since I checked it).
@lemmy@fmhy.ml any idea why I can’t see that post in-app by going to RenWillis’ timeline, but why I can see it via a public web browser?
“Does anyone know why this is happening?”
Yes. Thom Hartmann and others have written about this. It started after the civil rights, antiwar, feminist, peacenik, environmental, etc movements of the 1960s and early 70s.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated specifically because he was uniting poor Whites with Blacks, calling for Socialism, and launching the Poor People’s Campaign.
It was a conscious, deliberate response by the elite — against the economic and political warfare conducted by the middle class in order to eliminate the classist systemz of oppression.
The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy
Written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
see also Thom Hartmann’s book: “Screwed: The Undeclared War on America’s Middle Class”
also: “
**Why Oligarchs Don’t Just Want to Be Rich, But Kill Democracy Too ** The deeper reason why the powerful and wealthiest think your ability to vote is dangerous.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy
see above article — one of the best. chock-full of the best history lessons — including England’s maximum wage law back a few centuries ago.
“Power attracts the corruptible.
Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.”
— DUNE, by Frank Herbert
But that wouldn’t generate as much profit, see! You gotta have Scarcity, otherwise ya cannot jack up the prices so high!
also: permaculture regenerative agriculture ecological stability dynamic equilibrium etc
also, news: India’s regenerative water permaculture development