
I can not for the moment find the link but to paraphrase from the Climate Gate e-mail leak scandal.
“”The internet has provided all people with the means to exchange information with each other , and to ask each other for confirmation of various events or facts, Unfortunately, they do””
(Note, This site also speaks to federated Blogs and getting noticed, I found it in an earlier linked in post. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/grub-street-journal-roger-lewis/ )
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/grub-street-journal-roger-lewis/
Re-branding Dissent
I am one of those who thinks that democracy is being destroyed. I know its fashionable to play cynical one-upmanship and say – ‘we’ve never had democracy’, or, ‘it was destroyed long ago’, but that game aside, I think its worth actually thinking about how, many forms of democratic expression, effective dissent and peaceful self-determination are being buried.
In “The Next Crisis” I argued that the Global Over-Class have decided that Democracy is a threat to their wealth and power and have more than likely given some thought to how best to neuter it while appearing to do no such thing. I suggested they would wish to keep the outward form of democracy, so as to keep us reassured and entertained, but remove any substance from it, leaving us with an empty but colourful stage show.
In part two of the series, I offered a list of the various ways this could be done (a sort of manifesto for the Over Class or, as I have called them elsewhere, The Disloyal and noted how many of those things were clearly already underway.
For example item three of the manifesto said,
3) professionalized Governance. Democracy can be and must be neutered, and an effective way of doing this is to insist that amateur, elected officials MUST take the advice of professional (read corporate) advisors. Expand current law to enforce this.
If this seems monstrous now, their argument, I suspect, will be that in an increasingly crowded, interconnected and globalised world we can no longer leave critically important decisions in the hands of the uneducated, in-expert and amateur. We must, of course, still be free to choose but must, from now on, be helped to choose ‘wisely’. And how can we choose wisely if we aren’t given wise choices to choose from? Oh, the Orwellian beauty of it! No prizes for guessing who will decide what is and what is not wise.
There are
797 Responses !! to Re-branding Dissent
One of many prescient articles written by David Malone on the Golem XIV Blog.
http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2016/01/re-branding-dissent/
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The Big Apple Plan. Wesley Freeburg. Why Abstract Currencies Fail
The Natural Order of Money and Why Abstract Currencies Fail — A critical review
Introduction
An article published by Roy Sebag (“RS”) this past March with the above captioned title was recently brought to my attention in the course of an interesting “conversation” on Twitter, which actually included a well-known anthropologist, some crypto people, and some “gold-bugs” inter alia. In this essay, my first on Medium, I shall argue RS fails to properly describe “the Natural Order of Money” with an undisguised attempt to perpetuate a long-ago discredited “intrinsic” value theory.
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You should probably put the crack pipe down, Roger.
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And ultimately even the state accepts bank credit money as payment for taxes, fines and other debts to the state.
Let’s just keep that gem of Wesley’s disinformation on record.
This is a false statement. AKA a lie.
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Autobot response no 14 ( I could count it’s much higher than that but here we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=195HTzx31So
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The Crack Pipe produced the following, culminating in the Grub Street Journal.
USURY HELL´S FUEL MANS OPPRESSOR
BOURGOISE RESOLUTION AND
GLOBALISATION UN ENTANGLED.
A reading of The First Draft of Chapter 5 Conquest of Dough. Chapters 1 – 4 will be found on the Web Site at this link. http://theconquestofdough.weebly.com/
This Motley Fool, From 2009 via 2011 Freinds gained and innocence lost.
RogerGLewis May 18, 2011 at 5:16 am #
Hi Golem and hello to all the other excellent contributors of comments to this blog, there is a lot of reading to do here with the links which are also posted and I will get through it “one grain of sand at a time”.
I was directed here by a comment posted in Sturdy Blog http://sturdyblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/to-whom-do-we-owe-this-money-exactly/#comment-610
There are more and more people seeking answers to unasked let alone unanswered questions my comment is directed more to those who like me agree that there absolutely is a very bad problem and it is what Roy Madron calls the Global Monetocracy its a coporate Oligarchy that has hijaked the Agenda in pursuit of its own narrow interests.
Elite theory is a fairly well-defined area with both Michelle’s Iron Law of Oligarchy from 1911 and C Wright Mills Power Elite from 1954. There is a good body of work examining both Political and Democratic theory and the phenomena are noting new going back to Plato.s Republic or if you follow Lyndon Larouche Aristotles Politics. What we are seeing is not new its just another spin on the age-old plot. Closer to 1914-1918 and the preceding 20 years than to 1929-1945 but both were prefixed with a large crisis in Capitalism.
I wrote this blog on The Iron Law of Oligarchy which references both Michels and Wright Mills and also has very good presentations from Andreas Popp and Webster Tarpley, Popp proposes Danistry for the Overclass but it isn´t any more complicated than the Power elite or Oligarchy.
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/iron-law-oligarchy-roger-lewis?trk=prof-post .
Orwell is very relevant and his essay re assessing Mr Burnham is thought to be the inspiration behind 1984,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Thoughts_on_James_Burnham
In 1984 the book which Winston is given by O’Brien is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oligarchical_Collectivism .
One book which I have read recently is Frank Harriss Germany or England from 1915it re-examines Bismarks Germany from the late 1800´s and the English Oligarchy/Aristocracy vis the German Nobility it is a fascinating take on the tensions between two competing Oligarchic systems, not dissimilar to now and the ideas of if you are not with us you are against us.
https://archive.org/details/englandorgerman01harrgoog