tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post598132900180074159..comments2023-11-03T04:19:17.635-07:00Comments on Disaster Porn: What Will it Take?Edwardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-34622993049823596412010-12-12T05:25:29.240-08:002010-12-12T05:25:29.240-08:00Could possibly be the Most beneficial topic which ...Could possibly be the Most beneficial topic which I read all month?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-89392952487847939572010-12-10T15:18:22.190-08:002010-12-10T15:18:22.190-08:00Its ironic that you have positioned me as a usury ...Its ironic that you have positioned me as a usury hack, Mr A, given that firstly, I don't advocate anything - I simply narrate change, and secondly because while I might forsee peak debt being a new equilibrium, peak debt also implies zirp and interest free issuance of public money.<br /><br />Hardly usury that, is it?<br /><br />Its ironic that freedom loving people would like to re-institute a monetary system that has usury at its heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-89152508872790171052010-12-10T13:00:05.236-08:002010-12-10T13:00:05.236-08:00Internet disruption:
Yes, it'll be interestin...Internet disruption:<br /><br />Yes, it'll be interesting to see how the Internet dies over the next few years. Between the gutting of net neutrality, the abandonment of the NBP (why the fuck did they even bring that up if they weren't going to do it?) and the access ideal, more and more people being economically driven off, and the sudden escalation of political censorship, this thing's just about finished as a vibrant communication medium.<br /><br />Although I do wonder about these hackers as a group. They seem to be starting to rally for Wikileaks. I've heard many of them want net neutrality and hate the Lieberman ideology. I guess it wouldn't take many of them to launch actions to hold the (racketeer part of the) Internet hostage unless demands along those lines were met.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-17455438048057531832010-12-09T18:55:10.880-08:002010-12-09T18:55:10.880-08:00Joe Bageant has an interesting answer to the quest...Joe Bageant has an interesting answer to the question I posed, "What will it take?"<br /><br />http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/12/america-y-ur-peeps-b-so-dum.htmlEdwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-39893997027631767992010-12-09T18:04:31.974-08:002010-12-09T18:04:31.974-08:00Well, we will see, LH how they respond when there ...Well, we will see, LH how they respond when there is widespread internet disruption. I know it's likely to cause me some dyspepsia.Edwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-27193518619892653422010-12-09T16:11:54.858-08:002010-12-09T16:11:54.858-08:00"And so, one is left to ask the question that..."And so, one is left to ask the question that one is constantly faced with when one witnesses a strong electric shock administered to a subject who does little more than faintly twitch in response: Is the subject dead? And if not, just what is it going to take to make the subject remove the instrument of pain and strangle the son of a bitch who attached it to them in the first place?"<br /><br />What has happened here is that the subjects pain receptors are attuned to a different kind of pain.<br /><br />They are being prodded with the wrong instrument, if one hopes to get a reaction.<br /><br />For example, take away their internet access and their TV and I bet you they'd be on the street with a pitchfork or worse quick as a snap.<br /><br />Sheeple are not interested in what the Fed is doing because their deposits are insured, assuming they have deposits that is, and if they don't, because basedon very recent experience they don't think the Fed can help them.<br /><br />P.S. Nice blog Edwardo.Liminal Hackhttp://liminalhack.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-7748832394149240782010-12-06T16:42:16.993-08:002010-12-06T16:42:16.993-08:00"As for the Fed, too few people (in terms of ..."As for the Fed, too few people (in terms of percentage of the public) understand what it does to be outraged with it."<br /><br />I think that gets right to the nub of the problem. One can't protest against something of which one is ignorant.Edwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-43576904358304497812010-12-06T11:38:34.429-08:002010-12-06T11:38:34.429-08:00No apology necessary. Everyone needs a break from ...No apology necessary. Everyone needs a break from time to time. Me, I had to channel my energies elsewhere for my rants felt futile.<br /><br />I don't know what it will take to wake people up. Maybe, as Toby pointed out, it will take the next generation to reject what ours has accepted. <br /><br />The TSA... people prefer its placebo of security at the price of getting felt up. I would love to see a prankster pretend to get all "hot and bothered" during a patdown. Or have someone fake a seizure, complete with foam bubbling from their mouth, during a scan from the X-ray machine. Maybe a little video ridicule could go viral on YouTube and be a catalyst for further debate on the matter.<br /><br />As for the Fed, too few people (in terms of percentage of the public) understand what it does to be outraged with it.DEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07266406676643270732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-56784750764944004552010-12-05T18:24:47.668-08:002010-12-05T18:24:47.668-08:00Thanks for dropping by, Toby, and for your hopeful...Thanks for dropping by, Toby, and for your hopeful perspective.Edwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-81226414612661536432010-12-05T02:20:03.246-08:002010-12-05T02:20:03.246-08:00I hear you, Edwardo.
The funk you describe visit...I hear you, Edwardo. <br /><br />The funk you describe visits me often, and had been with me until yesterday, when my daughter noticed a free magazine on a counter in a store we were visiting. I've just translated an article from it over on my blog (in case you're interested), but thought at least I could spread your way a little of the hope the magazine has lent me. <br /><br />Germany, for all its ultra-conservative austerity right now, is also home to a very lively subculture I am learning more and more about. I imagine other European countries offer the same. People are leaving the system behind to do their own thing, at the community level, motivated only by building a better community simply because a better community is better for everyone.<br /><br />Recently awards were given to 17 teenagers for their contributions to the community, three got special awards, and the judges had a hard time because of the high number of candidates, whose average age is 17. All are motivated not by money, but by the health of their communities. This was reported in our local newspaper. In the same paper there was a report of an artist who teaches street kids whatever he can. He has set up a studio with his own money, equipped it with what he can afford, and gives his time to the children who turn up. Again, for free.<br /><br />There is also the growing guaranteed income movement here, which I have already reported on. My own daughter, without my either prompting her or knowing about it until later, initiated a discussion in her ethics class (she's 13) on a moneyless future. It went down well and provoked a lively debate, with only one student from a class of roughly 30 refusing to believe such a world would be possible. <br /><br />Change is underway (yes I know this is all anecdotal, but there is much more than I could possibly write here) and beginning to emerge in the fringes of the mainstream. It is even happening in the US, though the potential for violence there seems very high to me. I know too we (you and I) do not agree on everything, which is anyway an impossibility, but it is, I feel, heartening to hear there are people 'out there' struggling to build a better way. In short, stuff is happening!<br /><br />These are very difficult times, and it is precisely because they are difficult (they will get <i>much</i> harder) that we must try to remember the star of hope that also fled Pandora's Box...Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16258136994278139356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-41724537519914811422010-12-04T19:02:21.785-08:002010-12-04T19:02:21.785-08:00Thank you, Johnny. And I wish you the same.Thank you, Johnny. And I wish you the same.Edwardohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03613197383283896190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8902921887068783713.post-34567788738986208002010-12-04T08:35:12.809-08:002010-12-04T08:35:12.809-08:00Yeah, I'm glad you're back. I was wonderi...Yeah, I'm glad you're back. I was wondering what happened to you. <br /><br />A thought-provoking post as usual, Edwardo. I suspect you're correct as to what it will take. It's never too late though - so we'll have to disagree there - though I suppose that is a philosophical question based in one's beliefs about what one considers "too late." <br /><br />Anyhow, good to see you around. Don't know if you celebrate Christmas, but I do, so I hope you don't mind a sincere "Merry Christmas." <br /><br />Peace to you and yours...Johnny D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17141127764617679586noreply@blogger.com