Jardine

Radical or Real Politics for ordinary people.

http://www.dabase.org/radicpol.htm

http://www.dabase.org/coopdoub.htm

Plus some quotes from the above author re the state of the dreadfully sane "everyman" created in the image of TV and the corporate media as also described in This Little Kiddy Went To Market by Sharon Beder http://www.herinst.org/sbeder/Books/kiddy.html

The power of industry and money has actually become senior to the power of governments, and is now controlling the entire world.

The modern "everyman" of consumer society is a propagandized individual, participating in illusions and, effectively, self-destructing.

The modern "everyman" is being created by the power system of the world, because it is in the interests of that power system for there to be consumer egos who are completely self-involved, self-seeking, and stupefied.

At present, a culture of total war, a culture of death, is ruling, while the people are engrossed in stupefying consumerism.

(WELCOME to BRAVE NEW WORLD and 1984)

The rulers get to consume. The defeated, or the subordinates, get to live in poverty, or with little.

As power of wealth - extended through corporations, as well as individuals - is used to acquire goods, power, and territory outside of the domain of the culture, or the nation-state, or the alliance of nation-states.

The situation has arisen that wealthy people, wealthy nation-states, and wealthy corporations everywhere are acquiring property and goods all over the world.

The power of wealth is upsetting the balance of how things were, and is having a negatively dramatic effect on the global system altogether.

Elsewhere the author has pointed out that when the principal ethic (or rather anti-ethic) of unbridled competition rules the world, then everyone, including the "winners" inevitably loses. And that any and every such "culture" is thus well on the way to total disintegration or collapse.

"The modern "everyman" of consumer society is a propagandized individual, participating in illusions and, effectively, self-destructing."

Whereas you know better than everyone else what their values should be

HoHum

You are right in pointing out the corruption by which the rich obtain advantages at the expense of the poor. But your blind faith in government is truly touching.

Consider a different perspective: http://mises.org/daily/4686