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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Chto Delat?

What needs to be done?

Famous quote from Vladimir Lenin, during different times and circumstances, but relevant now nonetheless.
A news analyst is fired... the right wing immediately demands government involvement to adjudicate, clarify, and punish! This is the same right wing that hates government interference into private business and our lives.

All of which shows us that it is all a nasty charade. There are no beliefs, there is no ideology, philosophy has jumped on board the midnight train a long time ago. I have cast at least 10 votes in my life as votes signifying my frustration and the fact that I was mad as hell... but nothing changed. In point of fact, things got much worse as time went on. We are committed to power, compulsion, greed, and our lusts.... as a group responding to the wealthy elite which drives us and pays our group bills.

George Wallace won a Republican primary in Michigan back in the day; we were mad as hell and we weren't...yadda-yadda-yadda. We took it, and we asked for more.

We shall continue to take it, and we shall not make any substantial difference until we change ourselves. Then change the world.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

In re "mad as hell" and nothing changes. Try this: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_world_liberal_opportunists_made_20101025/

Montag said...

Good piece.

Elia Kazan, however, said it all in the script for Network ("...mad as hell...") in the scene where Ned Beatty lays it out for Peter Finch: pure corporatism and the Network was to be the conduit into the minds of the populace.

There is no going back. I am somewhat annoyed by all the time we will waste between now and the inevitable.