Sunday, April 05, 2020
A new and evocative comparison
Interesting essay in Off-Guardian. Japanese historian Hiroyuki Hamada compares the pre-1900 Edo system in Japan to the current globalism. He ties the latest globalist "flu" coup with previous coups and circuit breakers like 9/11 and TARP.
Hamada gets the Shared Lie setup exactly:
First, we must recognize that there is an industry that commodifies “dissenting voices”. The people who engage in this have no intention of examining the exploitive mechanism of capitalist hierarchy. Some of them typically chose topics of government wrongdoings in contexts of fascist ideologies (jews are taking over the world, for example), space aliens and so on. The angles are calibrated to keep serious inquiries away but they nonetheless garner major followings.Hamada gets Manweller's Rule:
“Representative democracy” within a capitalist framework can be one of the most strong ways to install values, beliefs and norms of the ruling class into minds of the people whose interests can be significantly curtailed by those ideas. All this can be achieved in the name of “democracy”, “free election” and so on.He mentions SKILLS, which most radicals miss:
Our thoughts and activities are always subservient to the moneyed transactions guided by the economic networks. Our economic restrictions can force us to make decisions to do away with our needs—we might abandon our skills, interests, friendships, life styles, philosophies, ideologies, community obligations and so on. In fact, some of us are forced to live on streets, die of treatable illness, suffer under heavy debt and so on as we struggle.Not as much emphasis on SKILLS as I'd like, but better than other writers. = = = = = Other leftists, though buying into the Flu Coup just as they bought into the Climate Coup, are hitting this point pretty well. They understand that our response to ANY emergency is ruined by austerity and Share Value capitalism. Every large organization needs to keep a reserve of materials, cash, AND SKILLED EMPLOYEES on hand, even if they're not being used with maximum efficiency during the easy times. When you have SKILLS in storage, you can call on them in the hard times. All of our governments and corporations have offshored skills to China, replaced office workers with computers, and eliminated "waste, fraud and abuse" ruthlessly. The few remaining employees were already overloaded in the easy times, and now they can't possibly handle the hard times.
Labels: Shared Lie, skill-estate, storage
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