Here it is: the truth.
I feel like I have been all over the www, dropping from one socio-economic expert’s blog into another’s, like Krugman or Friedman in the NYT or Simon Johnson’s Baseline Scenario and yet here it is. Just witty, sometimes a tad caustic, young master Matt Taibbi from The Rolling Stone, a man I enjoyed on Bill Maher’s Real Time during the election, getting it right.
So Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine surfaces again, which I referenced back in February 2007 in The Great Chayevsky. But back then I blogged to argue against my own pessimism facing the increasingly positive force that was Candidate Obama. Now I find that positive force neutered and I must return to the only intelligent choice-the futile, dismal truth that Taibbi spreads out here.
It’s the truth, it’s detailed, it’s a gift. The jive that we just don’t understand, which Wall Street and Washington have used to ride this tsunami wave, won’t wash anymore. Read it and weep.
And maybe protest.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/1
It becomes more and more evident each day that we can’t trust our government to solve our problems. They seem more interested in re-establishing the status quo and treating symptoms rather than healing the sick. Where do we go as citizens of a broken system? Those of us who have the fire of the fight in us and the will to survive, how can we pull on the rudders of this big ship to adjust it’s course without full on mutiny? Is revolution imminent you think?