we stupidly support. (a tapeworm, when it lodges in your stomach, injects you with a chemical that makes you crave what's good for the tapeworm, which is NOT what is good for YOU. That's why it's such a fitting metaphor.)
coupla' good articles on it:
MONEYCHANGER What is the American Tapeworm" or the "negative return on investment economy"?
FITTS That's an economy with two classes of players, the insiders & the outsiders. The insiders are constantly subsidized at the expense of the outsiders, like a tapeworm, a parasite that eats through the body. The parasites engineer the economy to drain it for their benefit, consolidating wealth & economic power by liquidating wealth, people, environment, & economic productivity, all to fatten the Tapeworm.
http://www.karavans.com/tapeworm.htmland
One of the things that is most disturbing about the American tapeworm is that it has organized its leadership around private banks and defense contractors and its governance and intellectual air cover around think tanks and private universities and their tax-exempt endowments.
In so doing it has done a marvelous job of getting the intellectual resources of the nation disengaged from dealing with what is happening and engaged –if not financially dependent on--- producing chemicals for injection into the body politic through a highly centralized corporate media that will feed the tapeworm's desire.
The Harvard Watch reports description of Harvard academics creating the public policy justifications for Enron's frauds while the Harvard endowment fed at the trough illuminated a perfect example of how the tapeworm gets the host to act against its own self-interest.
http://www.solari.com/articles/the_american_tapeworm.html
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