Saffire

HAPPY NEW YEAR, FELIZ 2012

PT1: This is to soothe your thoughts that facsism might be on the rise again. I do think Chomsky is utterly right.

Q+A With Noam Chomsky at Occupy Boston

Q: What about the ruling class in America? How likely is it that they’ll have an open fascist system here?
Chomsky: I think it’s very unlikely frankly. They don’t have the force. About a century ago, in the freest countries in the world, Britain and the United Sates at the time, the dominant classes came to understand that they can’t control the population by force any longer. Too much freedom had been won by struggles like these, and they realized it. It’s discussed in their literature.

PT 2: They recognize that they’re going to have to shift their tactics to control of attitudes and beliefs instead of just the cudgel. It can’t do what it used to do. You have to control attitudes and beliefs. In fact that’s when the public relations industry began. It began in the United States and England. The free countries where you had to control beliefs and attitudes, to induce consumerism, to induce passivity, apathy and distraction. It’s a barrier, but it’s a lot easier to overcome than torture and the Gestapo. I don’t think the circumstances are any longer there to institute anything like what we call fascism.

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Hey Saffire, kannst Du eigentlich noch Deutsch sprechen?

In case you might not have gotten that bit, when Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Frankfurt or Berlin or whereever talk about 'global' and 'democracy' they mean: "Think global, act local". Decentralisation is something everyone pretty much agreed upon in Frankfurt, it got mentioned a lot. It will, once demands get publicised, be in the list, and high up, too. So far I think you mustn't be scared about all this. You might even come to love what's happening there. Contribute!

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Brotini, I posted a video in the photo thread. Might host a webthingy tonight.