Sunday, October 03, 2004

The Only Thing We Have to Fear...

By Mickey Z.

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  1. Mickey, I agreed with everything that you said in your article, until I got to the last line.  “...The corporate grip...is a very, very weak grip...”.  Almost every heart and almost every mind in this country is under the control and almost total domination by the corporate structure. What is not under the control of corporations, is under the control of the government. That does not give those of us who want change, much wiggle room.  PEACE, rosemarie

    Posted by Rosemarie Jackowski from  on  10/03  at  09:41 AM

  2. I agree the situation is bleak (but glad that Mick is continually ramming home his message). Just reading Juliet Schor’s book Born to Buy. I never imagined the situation in the US was that far along with the commercialization of every nook and cranny of physical existence and the marketeers aiming their message of egoism, consumption and greed at ever younger children. The job of counter-hegemony (Gramsci) and critical pedagogy (Freire) seems rather naive, quaint and hopeless against all that corporate money. But fight on we must. Maybe things will be brighter in the morning?

    A fantastic book on how to remake the world which I use in my classroom is Gaian Democracies by Madron and Jopling. A concise and brilliant must-read. It is a systems theory approach to smashing the global monetocracy.

    Posted by Rhino Rick from  on  10/04  at  07:40 AM

  3. Right on Mick. Write on.

    Posted by Flavia from  on  10/04  at  11:26 PM
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