There is a very disturbing concept, planned misery, which captured my attention: our loss of wealth is ultimately a result of a strategy. And, at the same time, I am reading in the papers lots of articles about cutting lots of citizens' rights, rights which time ago had only been won by long and fierce struggleling, and now simply are being vanished as smoke. And it is not just in these countries often refered to as PIIGS, who are sinking amidst a devastating debt storm, it is also in other richer parts of the world, like Japan. The bottom line is that we are all being fooled on the sake of being saved from whatever nonsensical perils said to be hovering us. I know it sounds kind of paranoid, but it doesn't mean there is not any truth in it. Watch out!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Shocking Times, Shocking Truths
As I'm reading this book, the future is becoming more and more uncertain and scary to me. The same awakening I had during the invation of Iraq, while I was reading Orwell's 1984, I'm having it now with this book, which is blowing my mind away. One might argue that there is nothing really new in some of the facts exposed by Naomi Klein in this book, which are most of them already known to any informed reader. However, what is really interesting in this book is the point of view she takes to understand what has been happening around us for latest 30 years. We are being scared, by means of the shock therapy in her terms, and by being frightened, we accept, willingly or by force, to get rid of our rights, our wealth, and ultimately our freedom.
There is a very disturbing concept, planned misery, which captured my attention: our loss of wealth is ultimately a result of a strategy. And, at the same time, I am reading in the papers lots of articles about cutting lots of citizens' rights, rights which time ago had only been won by long and fierce struggleling, and now simply are being vanished as smoke. And it is not just in these countries often refered to as PIIGS, who are sinking amidst a devastating debt storm, it is also in other richer parts of the world, like Japan. The bottom line is that we are all being fooled on the sake of being saved from whatever nonsensical perils said to be hovering us. I know it sounds kind of paranoid, but it doesn't mean there is not any truth in it. Watch out!
There is a very disturbing concept, planned misery, which captured my attention: our loss of wealth is ultimately a result of a strategy. And, at the same time, I am reading in the papers lots of articles about cutting lots of citizens' rights, rights which time ago had only been won by long and fierce struggleling, and now simply are being vanished as smoke. And it is not just in these countries often refered to as PIIGS, who are sinking amidst a devastating debt storm, it is also in other richer parts of the world, like Japan. The bottom line is that we are all being fooled on the sake of being saved from whatever nonsensical perils said to be hovering us. I know it sounds kind of paranoid, but it doesn't mean there is not any truth in it. Watch out!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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