Once corporations were granted the same rights as individual citizens, it was game over as far as actual individuals go - the herd mentality with a bottom line, legal protections and no soul is a dangerous beast. Corporations are an abstraction that allows ultimate greed to breed, happy and ready to slash and burn at will, with zero concern for long-term repercussions, ones we're facing right now. Classical economic theory has never taken the planet into consideration, it ignores the Earth as a closed-loop system and dooms us to self-destruction. Materialism might be fun for some, but in the long run, it will destroy the society, maybe even the race, leaving something almost unimaginable and deeply upsetting. Maybe that's what the planet is trying to tell us, with some of the accounts we've heard in abduction literature, thinking that we might sooner buy the notion of aliens trying to save us, than our own planet trying to make it's continuance less stressful. Who the fuck knows.
Obama is a marketing campaign, and while I don't think he's anywhere near as downright sleazy as the Bush and that whole clan, he's just another figurehead, meant to continue policies beneficial to corporations - not you, not me, not anyone outside of shareholders and a few inside players. I know I sound like a socialist, I suppose I'm a terrible capitalist and businessman, but my macro view regarding the way that American politics is playing out, is sadly close to that of more extreme advocates like Alex Jones. This empire is in decline, whether you like it or not, so let's move past that to a discussion of how it's going to play out, and how to minimize the rocky road ahead. The entire country is already underwater, and anyone praying for some miraculous recovery in the near future, well, hope that works out, but I'm not going to bet on it.
Oh, and to stay on thread, I personally found Starcke to be an interesting, genuine person, unlike many of the others who share many of his views, but who come across as more crass, perhaps less sincere. Some of you found his thoughts to be somewhat derivative, well, how many folks in any field are writing and saying anything you haven't already heard before? For me, it was an enjoyable couple of hours, I have a hard time listening to any of our episodes after the fact (and rarely do), but I've given this one another spin, and liked it. Perhaps the Devil is under the details...
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