Grapes of Wrath - 2011

[TalkingDog]

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=10725

Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain’t no good and they die out, but we keep on coming. We’re the people that live. They can’t wipe us out, they can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa, cos we’re the people. – Ma Joad - Grapes of Wrath

The power elite that believe they can control the masses as puppet master commands a puppet should beware. The wrath of the masses can be fierce and sudden. Ask Hosni Mubarak. As Steinbeck realized many decades ago, selfishness run amok, supported and encouraged by the authorities lead to poverty, despair and sometimes revolution. The false mantra of an economy based on self-interest and free markets is a smokescreen blown by the few with wealth and power to obscure the truth that they have used their wealth and power to rig the game in their favor. The have-nots can dream about becoming a have, but the chances of achieving that dream today are miniscule

[RandomThoughts]

1. It is not a dream about becoming a have.

It is first knowing what 'have' is, and second less difference and distance between haves and have nots by utilizing the potential of society to help the have nots, by moving from the haves many things.

And also by restructuring systems to adjust for new realities like the huge increase in production capability per hour of work, created over the last couple centuries.

When there are many people that want to work, and many people without the goods of production done from work, it is a systematic problem, not an individual one, although individuals can help correct it. So you look at why that occurs, and it then becomes obvious the equations of capitalism only work in some social situations, and some group that is not profit first should have some way to move the means of production to both create work people want, and add to the items they need for a better life and comfort.

Or you can think you have to break everyone so that they repeat exactly what you repeat, even if it does not make sense.

The problem is obvious.

[fishwax]

2. a kick for Tom Joad

:kick:

Steinbeck: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this."

[liberal N proud]

3. History repeating its self

Grapes of Wrath may have been fiction, but it was about a very painful time in American history.