Loaded Language and Loaded Guns

[babylonsister]

Loaded Language and Loaded Guns

The Meaning of Opposites

By Charles Sullivan

10/03/07 "ICH" -- - -One can no longer understand US governmental policy on the basis of conventional language or traditional wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings were long ago twisted and distorted in order to deceive the people. Now war is peace and terror and occupation is liberation. In order to make sense of what is happening, it is important to understand everything within the context of a specific economic philosophy, and the distorted capitalist system that spawned it.

That ideology was crafted by a diminutive economist named Milton Friedman, at the University of Chicago some five decades ago. The holy trinity of Friedman’s version of capitalism—privatization of the public domain, corporate deregulation, and deep cuts in social spending—has resulted in enormous societal inequity and socio-economic classes. It has given us the haves and the have-nots, the haves and the have-mores.

Friedman and his disciples, collectively known as ‘The Chicago School’ do not believe in a minimum wage—much less a living wage, unions, worker rights, environmental protections, worker safety, or any other kind of restraint imposed upon corporations. In Friedman’s view, the market should rule and profitability should be the guiding principle, the end results always justifying the means.

The implementation of Friedman’s version of unfettered capitalism relies upon munificent corporate welfare, tax cuts to the wealthy, exploitation of workers, and the outright theft of other sovereign nation’s natural wealth through military force—including oil and minerals, water supplies and other societal infrastructure; cheap labor, and a procession of consumers of goods and services without limits—an impossibility in a closed ecological system.

Convincing the public to support policies that are, in fact, detrimental to them, requires enormous marketing skill, as well as a corporate owned and operated propaganda apparatus that is second to none. This is accomplished by cloaking harmful policies in patriotic language, and other forms of seduction.

In order to achieve this objective, which is really nothing less than unqualified global corporate dominance, the public domain must be privatized and run not for use, but for profit; and the unparalleled might of the US military brought to bear against any nation or people who stand in the way.

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[AX10]

1. I felt no sorrow when Friedman passed.

He was a very dangerous SOB and his idealogy has brought havoc and instability onto our society.

[babylonsister]

2. True, but it's important to know where the poison came from. nt

[AX10]

3. I agree.

[Karenina]

4. Ich auch.

Link getting traffic.

[MasonJar]

5. "War is Peace" and "Slavery is Freedom" says 1984. The real

e-mails go down the Memory Hole and the "Big Brother" is out there watching you, thanks to Bell South and AT&T and Verizon. Prisoners are subjected to Room 101. Orwell was actually afraid of the Communists; little did he guess that the true perpetrators of his nasty world vision would be capitalists of the Bush/Reagan persuasion. Tyranny is tyranny whoever practices it!