You Don’t Need a Clock to Know What Time It Is

[MindMover]

With each passing day, the news grows increasingly grim. In recent weeks alone, we’ve seen women’s rights under assault as reactionary forces seek to turn the clock back by decades. Half a world away in Afghanistan, corpses are defiled and more are brutally created, without even their ages or innocence sufficient to protect them. Meanwhile, back at home, Congress passes and President Obama signs a new law that further restricts the ability of “we the people” to say or do anything that might stem the tide of the insanity. It’s all such a familiar tune, one that plays out with flawless precision in nearly every turn of the news cycle.

Meanwhile, the blogosphere buzzes along, chronicling the morass and the madness with vigor. The headlines read like an excruciating autopsy of democracy and justice in the late, great United States — and a horrifying blueprint for how to decimate that portion of the planet’s inhabitants who have the misfortune of living atop, amid, or around something that we covet. Naked fascism here and wanton destruction there, with each solidifying the other in our hearts and minds as the gears of consumer culture blithely grind about their business with clocklike precision. Tick: the Dow Jones goes up! Tock: another celebrity melts down! And hardly anyone seems to really know what time it is…

http://www.newclearvision.com/2012/03/20/waking-life/

==========================================================

Meanwhile, it is strangely comfortable screeching from one catastrophe to another.......or is that my mother calling..........

[orpupilofnature57]

1. NWO

[winton37]

2. The Dow is our Downfall

I'm with you, mindmover. There are many things polluting our so-called democracy. But along with soft money, the insatiable greed of Wall Street and their sahreholders are what's killing us the fastest. America (the world's largest economy--25% of it) is spent out. Since the late 60's the Dow and other exchanges have been tightening their chokehold on our standard of living and out culture. Every year corporations find another way to increase profits for their shareholders. Pile those increases on top of each other quarter after quarter--year after year--and we're now paying oveer $5.00 for a shrunken, plastic jar of mayonaisse. Next year the mayo and everythig else will be higher.

It is the eleventh hour for the underpaid, over-worked American working class.

The only way we are going to survive under the present system is for the market to correct itself, and an all-out depression will do that. It will cost jobs, but if everything cavess in (and I look for the market to collapse within 18 months to two years tops), then corporations will have to compete for our dollars again. That is the only way I see our lifestyle's improving. Get those Dow profits way down, and they'll cut their competitiors throats to stay alive. Right now every industry has coalitions--you don't see price wars at gas stations any more, do you?

[freshwest]

3. I thought of this, but it may not fit:

And the Chambers Brothers were not paid royalties for the music that a generation marched to change the world with. Yet now the copyrighters try to own every word, sound and gene.

[MindMover]

4. Thanks for your contribution.....