Shock and Awe Overreach

[garthranzz]

Reading Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine - and listening to her - puts it all in perspective.

Cameron and the CIA torture
Pinochet
(skip a few decades)
9/11
Iraq
Now, Bear Sterns, etc.

And the common ingredient to making it work? "Extortion," as she puts it. Panic, fear - shock therapy - electric or system - massive and swift - do it now, do it fast, faster, emergency, no time - no time to think.

As the robot on Lost in Space (what an apt title) used to say, Warning! Warning! Danger! Danger!

SLOW IT DOWN!!!

[truthisfreedom]

1. I think that it's ridiculous, and we should let them fail. I think after they fail we can loosen up

some money to patch up things for the little guys. To hell with the corporations that did this. We need to let them experience the consequences of what they have wrought. If there aren't consequences, they'll just do it again.

[tblue]

2. I just started reading it, too. I am afraid it's gonna give me nightmares, tho.

But I do wanna be informed, and that's the best way to inoculate ourselves from 'shock therapy.'

[garthranzz]

3. Once you get past Cameron and the EST

it becomes easier to read - a good history, a history as economics narrative.