By John Ballard
Doc Searls put together some choice observations of Hal Crowther and furnishes a link to the archive. If you're feeling dry, go there and drink your fill.
- �Go get a bath right after you get a job,� snarls Newt Gingrich, an influence-peddler who�s had no legitimate job for 15 years and exists only to give the word �hypocrisy� a human face.
- The cannibal capitalism that produced a Goldman Sachs and a Bernie Madoff is subhuman and obscene. There�s no form of government more inherently offensive than plutocracy�only theocracy comes close. When a citizen comes of age in a plutocracy, he has no moral choice but to slay Pluto or die trying.
- ...two protective myths, transparently false but widely accepted: one, that the feeble, compliant federal government was somehow the enemy of free enterprise; two, the outrageous trickle-down theory, which urged us to choke the rich with riches in the hope that they would disgorge a few crumbs for the peasants.
It is time to recognize the disease so that it may be treated. The problem with the economy is Cannibal Capitalism. The Occupy Wall Street movement is all about Cannibal Capitalism, a practice that foregoes common interest and even long-term self-interest for a quick buck. Even worse when practiced at the level we have seen recently Cannibal Capitalism actively destroys the wealth-building capacity of the capitalist system. The book Cannibal Capitalism is available everywhere books are sold.
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