judith — thanks for making the uranus-pluto connection to jen’s comic, chilling as it is…
A snip:
Without the appropriate safety valves, people would resort to protests, in the best case, and revolutionary violence, in the worst case, Carlin said.
“You can either say that [campaign finance reform] is a laudable goal but the way you are going about it violates free speech too much, or you can say what Justice Roberts said, which is changing the fact that the people with extraordinary amounts of money are the ones that get listened to by government is changing the very nature of American government. And, folks, if you say that, then what are you saying? That the only way to change things in the American government is revolution? And if you say that, what are you asking for?”
“I’m anti-revolution. I want revolutionary change, because when things get bad enough that is what it takes to fix problems, but I don’t want revolution. I don’t want 1968 again — 168 riots, hundreds of bombing attempts. I don’t want that. So don’t push me into a corner where that is the only way I can get legislators to listen to me who normally only listen when you give them cash.”
Carlin remarked that the United States was moving away from being focused on the middle class, as the Founding Fathers had intended it to be.
“The poor people had always been screwed in this society, make no mistake about it,” he said. “The middle class is now where the poor people have always been — and here is when it is going to get really weird, the upper class is next. We are going from the 1 percent being the problem to the 0.01 percent being the problem, and they’re not the problem because they are successful, they are the problem because they’re making a system where no one else has any ability to impact it, and the court is backing them up on that. Close that down and you’re asking for trouble. Just my two cents.”
You can all kill me for this after.. What happened to you and I?… I thought we …”WE”.. were something… Do “we” not function as one? Sure enough I can see the prescience, also find it ridiculous.. enough to strangle my ass..
So hey, I’m gonna say right here and now, Symbiotic Anarchy, it’s comin’, and it’s good shit….
judith — thanks for making the uranus-pluto connection to jen’s comic, chilling as it is…
A snip:
Without the appropriate safety valves, people would resort to protests, in the best case, and revolutionary violence, in the worst case, Carlin said.
“You can either say that [campaign finance reform] is a laudable goal but the way you are going about it violates free speech too much, or you can say what Justice Roberts said, which is changing the fact that the people with extraordinary amounts of money are the ones that get listened to by government is changing the very nature of American government. And, folks, if you say that, then what are you saying? That the only way to change things in the American government is revolution? And if you say that, what are you asking for?”
“I’m anti-revolution. I want revolutionary change, because when things get bad enough that is what it takes to fix problems, but I don’t want revolution. I don’t want 1968 again — 168 riots, hundreds of bombing attempts. I don’t want that. So don’t push me into a corner where that is the only way I can get legislators to listen to me who normally only listen when you give them cash.”
Carlin remarked that the United States was moving away from being focused on the middle class, as the Founding Fathers had intended it to be.
“The poor people had always been screwed in this society, make no mistake about it,” he said. “The middle class is now where the poor people have always been — and here is when it is going to get really weird, the upper class is next. We are going from the 1 percent being the problem to the 0.01 percent being the problem, and they’re not the problem because they are successful, they are the problem because they’re making a system where no one else has any ability to impact it, and the court is backing them up on that. Close that down and you’re asking for trouble. Just my two cents.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/07/hardcore-history-host-justice-roberts-told-america-to-accept-plutocracy-or-revolt/
You can all kill me for this after.. What happened to you and I?… I thought we …”WE”.. were something… Do “we” not function as one? Sure enough I can see the prescience, also find it ridiculous.. enough to strangle my ass..
So hey, I’m gonna say right here and now, Symbiotic Anarchy, it’s comin’, and it’s good shit….
LOVE, PEACE, and all the other good shit…
Jere