Dennis Kucinich explains the present day economy.
I usually refrain from invoking the word “truth” for reasons that are too incredibly obvious and yet painfully laborious to explain, but when it becomes quite plainly evident and most especially when its impertinent verity is rudely spoken to power… well, there’s no other word that’s more perfectly appropriate.
Behold — the awful TRUTH.
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Why are people afraid of common sense?
Free-market economists (and most of our politicians) seem more akin to some faith base religious cult believers than any cognitive humans.
Still listening to the presentation… scary…
The funny thing is that as you can move just ever so slightly from Kucinich to Ron Paul with a large part of their thinking overlapping…
So, we get an intersection of opinion from the so-called “radical fringes” of the left and right with a lot of common ground shared between the two of them.
That’s quite interesting to me.
Banks, don’t get me started. I think Python had the right idea.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFBcpY9NHI
Where’s The Crimson Permanent Assurance when ya need em.?
Next thing you know you’ll be dangling overtures towards Zeitgeist: Addendum for your readers. What are you, some kind of conspiracy nut?
Re “…we get an intersection of opinion from the so-called ‘radical fringes’ of the left and right with a lot of common ground shared between the two of them.”
One of the more interesting notions to come out of the NAmerican secessionist movement is the notion of “radical right meeting radical left.” It is the latent political hybrid in-the-making that fascinates me. This hybrid is still several years removed from fruition, but well on the way with a tenuous, crawling motion. Gotta crawl before ya can walk.
SR — Me? Surely not. Oh wait…
http://redtory.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/zeitgeist-addendum/
Missed that post. If truth be told, I’m not a daily follower of your blog. Re the commentary where things somewhat stray into revolution vs. evolution. IMO, the “revolution” that lingers on the horizon is one of perception. That’s what makes it a REAL paradigm shift, as opposed to the marketing introduction of a new flavour of bubble gum. For example, pre-Copernican and post-Copernican phenomena did not change; it was the perception of that phenomena that was the shift, i.e. revolution.
Much applies the same way in which we perceive the role/function/purpose of the social institution of the industrial nation-state. Hey, ya give me an inch, I’ll gladly grab a mile.
I do like Kucinich a great deal, and really, he had me until he said “The Government must spend”…no, that will make the problems worse, not better.
Despite that, I think he and Ron Paul are the only two talking sense in the US.
Red, you might be interested in this video about monetary policy and reccessions and depressions.
It agrees with a lot of Kucinich says but draws very different conclusions.
Thanks. I’ll check it out later on in the day.
(I actually started watching it, but kind of tuned out as soon as he said that his publisher is Regnery… But I will go back to it in due course.)