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    Koyaanisqatsi   The film Koyaanisqatsi was released in 1982. The title means ‘life out of balance’ in the language of the Hopi, a Native American
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    #36186
    Glennda
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    “someone will have to call a halt, or at least a pause, to the pace at which they’re getting richer, or their quest for riches will become self-defeating. ”

    Yes, but WHO?

    Young Bernie fans have gotten politicized and are joining together in groups like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) which has grown in the SF Bay Area from about 30 to almost 900. Bernie Sanders and a few others may surprise people in the next election results. Like Seattle the Bay Area will soon sprout socialists in office and hopefully the Public Bank of Oakland will take off. This week the Oakland city council has approved some real money to exploring this useful option.

    Our governor Brown has sold out our Air Quality to big oil, but the fight will continue. The fight to regulate oil refineries has geared up to keep at the effort to cap increased capacity of refineries to take on dirty Tar Sands oil by the ship load. We must not give up the effort, just because the elected officials are bought out by Big Oil.

    While Bannon is taking on the Republicans, the left is going to take on the establishment Democrats.

    Thanks, Ilargi, for spelling out the situation so well. I read you blog almost every day to keep my finger on the pulse of the patient.

    #36189
    Nassim
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    I am reading Graham Greene’s “Dr Fischer of Geneva – or the Bomb Party” – I first read it many years ago. It is a very short novel, but it explains in a clever way how many wealthy people think.

    Has anyone ever noticed how the super wealthy of the USA never ever criticize one another? I think it is one rule of the club that must never be broken. Not one of them will ever say anything negative about the mayhem the USA is intentionally creating in the Middle East.

    #36190

    That’s what Larry Summers is on record telling both Varoufakis and Elizabeth Warren, Nassim: “”..insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.”

    #36191

    Thanks for the confidence, Glennda

    #36192
    seychelles
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    “it’s not for lack of love of the language that these films have no words. It’s because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live.”

    anti-Logos. Better silence or music than faux-language lies.

    #36193
    V. Arnold
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    I saw Koyaanisqatsi when it first came out; I was transfixed and didn’t move through the whole movie.
    The follow up movie Powaqqatsi, was equally hypnotizing; I wasn’t aware there was a third movie until now.
    T-Bear wanted me to thank you for this thread. He said; “All should give a week of the most powerful film viewing the medium is capable. Ilargi’s parallels with economics is spot on and could easily be extended to politics as well.”
    I couldn’t agree more…

    #36194
    V. Arnold
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    seychelles
    Good post; I agree.

    #36202
    SteveB
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    “another way of living”? How about without exchange belief? Convince me that some other way would be better. And while you’re at it, stop lying in order to convince yourself that it’s not possible.

    #36203
    V. Arnold
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    SteveB
    Whoa! Calm down; nobody’s lying.
    You say; “Convince me that some other way would be better. And while you’re at it, stop lying in order to convince yourself that it’s not possible.”
    Would you be so kind as to explain that statement? It makes little, to, no sense to this one. Further, Ilargi said no such thing.

    #36215
    koso_man
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    If anyone liked Koyaanisqatsi i would highly recommend Baraka and Samsara…Both produced by Ron Fricke, who was also involved in Koyaanisqatsi.

    #36243
    SteveB
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    V. Arnold,

    “nobody’s lying” wins the self delusion award for the day.

    I see that you thought that my comment was directed to Ilargi. It wasn’t, at least not specifically. It was for everyone.

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