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Thu Jul-17-08 12:07 PM
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Poll question: Which institution is the genesis of political thought? |
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Edited on Thu Jul-17-08 12:11 PM by Writer
That is, which institution sets the political agenda to which most other institutions cater?
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Thu Jul-17-08 12:10 PM
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1. Right now, it's the corporations. |
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But it should be the people.
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Thu Jul-17-08 12:14 PM
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3. The corporate religion was shaped by the University of Chicago |
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department of Economics. Milton Friedman was the high priest. This is the religion they've been teaching in American MBA programs for the last 40 years at least.
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Thu Jul-17-08 12:11 PM
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2. All of these, but I put the media, as I think they influence so many of the others... |
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Thu Jul-17-08 12:18 PM
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4. The People produce everything |
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Or rather, the multitude produces everything. "The People" is already a bad concept, a State concept, a wounded multitude turned back on itself and subsumed beneath the State. The Multitude produces everything.
Everything.
How it gets segmented, restructured, siphoned off, exploited, transformed, turned back against itself or intensified, that's a much more complicated story. There is no "single" or unified entity that stands as the genesis of political thought other than the multitude, the common.
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Thu Jul-17-08 04:14 PM
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While businesses and corporations are the prime visible movers, we empower them through our support.
We still have the power, provided we have the power to buy one newspaper over the other, use one bank over another, etc.
Unfortunately, centralized ownership leaves us fewer choices every day.
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Thu Jul-17-08 02:24 PM
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Depending on your definition of political thought.
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Thu Jul-17-08 03:20 PM
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6. Corporations are the genesis, but the media facilitates the politics |
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and spreads the corporation agenda under the guise of truthiness.
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Thu Jul-17-08 04:25 PM
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Big media is part of the overarching corporate structure, and does the pig corp's bidding. The corporate media peddles the propaganda, whips up war fever, and pits one "group" against another -- what ever is required to further the pig corp's agenda.
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Thu Jul-17-08 06:17 PM
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As is Hollywood, many churches, hell, even a lot of the research/educational category fits into business - 'foundations' and 'institutes' are often corporately funded, textbooks are profitable too..
I picked business with that in mind.
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Thu Jul-17-08 06:33 PM
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10. I voted other, just to suggest that some higher learning institutions may inspire political thought |
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Thu Jul-17-08 07:21 PM
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11. When corporations/rich ask congress to jump they ask "how high and when master"(n/t) |
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