First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
That's a popular poem on the erie silence with which German intellectuals watched the holocaust. Yes, I do agree with Steven Pinker on the decline of violence. But there are things worse than death. We in the west not only were silent but oblivious to what the corporate and political liaisons were doing to the some "third world" countries. Subprime mortgage crisis was just a precursor for the phrase "then they came for me". These were normal ubiquitous loans given to third world countries for decades in the name of poverty elimination but now most people there have woken up to gluttonous truth behind the veil of innocence. The only oblivious people left were people in this country and they came for us.
I grew up in India, listening to people bashing Gandhi and Nehru for not making the country flamboyant enough with the "help" of corporations. Even a country like Indonesia had "Bali" but all India had was a boring IIT. Imagine Chennai with the second longest beach in the world, its shoreline crowded with skyscrapers, dazzling roads, billboards et al but all it has is an university, harbor, cemetery for politicians and a cricket stadium. If Nehru had opened India up after independence, all this dazzling beauty would have been a reality but with an immense cost. There would have not been an university but chain of resorts. No cricket stadium, just bars and prostitution. The place would have been affordable only by rich westerns and Chennaities would have made a perceptual earning serving the tourists. Chennai would have been perceptually paying back the for the infrastructure cost (which they would have never gotten to use much) to the western banks and yes, whatever natural resources left in and around Chennai will be shipped to a more "productive" place thousands of miles across the ocean. I am glad (albeit I loath socialism) Nehru had this premonition and did what he did in spite of having to fight the Indian poverty alone. But most nations weren't fortunate enough to have popular leaders like India did at the right time.
John Perkins, The confessions of an economic hit is a must read for every one, this is not a conspiracy theory and most importantly this is not about patriotism and bashing any particular country. Actually there are no hatching of plans behind the closed doors etc since they are just leaches who evolved to suck blood and know nothing else. These leaches don't care about geography, ethnicity, nations et al, all they need is blood and more blood. These leaches bring bad name to capitalism and there is good chance they never even heard of Adam Smith.
It's up-to us, the people to identify these leaches . It turns out these leaches are dumb, with little common sense and developing sense of common good we can easily identify these leaches and save others and ourselves from them. Well, using all the passion watching sports, cable news and reality tv is not going to help in this aspect but re-routing little of that passions in the right places will make this world a much better place (dopamine factor here). There is no messiah coming, the messiah is in everyone of us and its upto us to put him to work. John Perkins here :
I grew up in India, listening to people bashing Gandhi and Nehru for not making the country flamboyant enough with the "help" of corporations. Even a country like Indonesia had "Bali" but all India had was a boring IIT. Imagine Chennai with the second longest beach in the world, its shoreline crowded with skyscrapers, dazzling roads, billboards et al but all it has is an university, harbor, cemetery for politicians and a cricket stadium. If Nehru had opened India up after independence, all this dazzling beauty would have been a reality but with an immense cost. There would have not been an university but chain of resorts. No cricket stadium, just bars and prostitution. The place would have been affordable only by rich westerns and Chennaities would have made a perceptual earning serving the tourists. Chennai would have been perceptually paying back the for the infrastructure cost (which they would have never gotten to use much) to the western banks and yes, whatever natural resources left in and around Chennai will be shipped to a more "productive" place thousands of miles across the ocean. I am glad (albeit I loath socialism) Nehru had this premonition and did what he did in spite of having to fight the Indian poverty alone. But most nations weren't fortunate enough to have popular leaders like India did at the right time.
John Perkins, The confessions of an economic hit is a must read for every one, this is not a conspiracy theory and most importantly this is not about patriotism and bashing any particular country. Actually there are no hatching of plans behind the closed doors etc since they are just leaches who evolved to suck blood and know nothing else. These leaches don't care about geography, ethnicity, nations et al, all they need is blood and more blood. These leaches bring bad name to capitalism and there is good chance they never even heard of Adam Smith.
It's up-to us, the people to identify these leaches . It turns out these leaches are dumb, with little common sense and developing sense of common good we can easily identify these leaches and save others and ourselves from them. Well, using all the passion watching sports, cable news and reality tv is not going to help in this aspect but re-routing little of that passions in the right places will make this world a much better place (dopamine factor here). There is no messiah coming, the messiah is in everyone of us and its upto us to put him to work. John Perkins here :
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