One cant help but wonder, what has become of this once great nation? Do we still have it in us or have we completely surrendered to the atomizing consequences of a market-driven morality and society and have replaced the call for communal responsibility with the call to further ones own interests at all costs. Chris Hedges recently wrote: Human beings (artists) matter little in the corporate state. We myopically serve the rapacious appetites of those dedicated to exploitation and maximizing profit. He went on: We have abandoned the common good. We have been stripped of our rights and voice. Corporations write our laws and determine how we structure our society. We have all become victims. There are no politicians or institutions, no political parties or courts, that are independent enough or strong enough to resist the corporate onslaught. Greater and greater numbers of human beings will be consumed. The poor, the vulnerable, the undocumented, the weak, the elderly, the sick, the children will go first. And those of us watching helplessly outside the gates will go next.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 02:53:40 +0000
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