Tag: power
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The things we make
I am breathless I cannot breathe I am legless without a drop to drink I am armless although I have wielded arms I am heartless I am heartless I am heartless But still sad I was so close to absolute power Then a new rival arrived on…
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HyperNormalisation: New doco from Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis dissects the political malaise we have been lead into. There are no new grand ideas just crisis management. Politics as exemplified by Trump and Putin has become a game of shapeshifting. No-one knows what they stand for or who they really support in the fictional reality spewed to the masses. If you don’t…
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The fallacy of Shareholder democracy – the owners are all opaque holding companies
Elected governments really don’t have much power any more because they have ceded most of it to corporations which we believe we control through share ownership but we are hopelessly wrong. Corporations are some of the few organisations that have true global influence so if we were to have a global democracy we would want…