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    LoC Old Patent Office model room, Washington DC 1865 There’s always a great irony in anyone at all coming under pressure for doing exactly what they s
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    #22746
    Formerly T-Bear
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    Eighty years of Disneyfacation, the world has few oars still encountering reality. Most inhabitants of this world reduced to cartoon, nothing is amiss, none would notice if it were. The absolute mass given its inertia keeps ‘civilisation’ moving steadily and consistently on its pre-programmed course despite encountering unplanned for obstacles and only rarely being diverted. Enumerating a few would be: The English North American Colonial revolt, driven by about one in five colonialists; the French Revolution, a class revolt led by about one percent politically engaged; and F.D. Roosevelt’s New Deal restructuring of economic management until conservative political subversion eliminated the economic vision and the economic tools developed to carry out that policy. All other attempts at reform ultimately encountered the inertia of a priori ‘civilisation’ and did not prevail, Marxism being the most prominent of those heterodox alternatives.

    Syriza’s political leadership personified in Tsipras did exactly what political leadership must do, take account of the lay of the battlefield before them and proceed accordingly. The absence of constraints evidenced by the troika’s supra-legal actions had to be coupled with the lack of countervailing inertia from any quarter within the monetary union or the EU itself. It is only the battle that is lost, a Pyrrhic (if even that) victory for those neoliberal factotums currently occupying the centres of political power; the war is now engaged and only fortunetelling adepts would venture a prognostication of its outcome, a subtle benefit of awaiting the final notes of the opera’s lead songstress. Now is the time to develop and reinforce the countervailing inertia to what has developed in the EU (and elsewhere) and plan its removal as well as reconstruction of edifices protecting from such malfeasance and misprision of the public interests. Sometimes living in interesting time can be – interesting.

    #22748
    Raleigh
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    Very interesting. That’s called thinking ahead. Any intelligent person is going to do this. Lawyers (which most politicians are) do it every single day. It’s what the central bankers have been doing on a daily basis for the last few decades, making things up as they go along, and they haven’t even been elected.

    #22752
    V. Arnold
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    @ Formerly T-Bear

    Now that’s a pretty damned good post! To the point and germane ago-go…

    #22753
    Dr. Diablo
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    Like.

    So…Thoughtcrime? The real crime is simply having THOUGHT and explored the possibility of acting, without actually doing it? And that is now treason? Interesting times, indeed.

    #22756
    phil harris
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    Tangential to topic but not to solidarity.
    When family health permits any chance of getting to Lesvos and helping local Greeks who are helping refugees?
    MSF are on the ground and say it’s the worst they have seen in Europe.

    #22759

    Phil, I’m going to have to see. Quite aware of our limitations in face of the sheer size of those issues, though. We might want to opt for the smaller issues, because there we can make an actual difference. No easy options available.

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    phil harris
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    Raul
    Thanks – of course.
    We give what we can.

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