CRITICAL THINKING: “George Carlin Describes the U.S. Plutocracy”☮
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Tag Archives: PLUTOCRACY
US ECONOMY: ” Joseph Stiglitz: Bernie Sanders is Right; Everybody Has the Right to Healthcare, Sick Days, and Family Leave” ☮
PLUTOCRACY: “Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared of Capitalism, Not Robots” ☮
“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.”
PLUTOCRACY: “The Genius of our Ruling Class” / Gore Vidal ☮
PLUTOCRACY: “Citigroup Ordered to Pay $770M Over Credit Card Scams” / Mike Malloy ☮
PLUTOCRACY: “Corporate Spokesmen” ☮
PLUTOCRACY: “If the Pledge of Allegiance Told the Truth” / Neil deGrasse Tyson ☮
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: “Wealth Creates Poverty” / Michael Parenti ☮
PLUTOCRACY: “Oil Tycoon Attacks Anti-Fracking Researchers” / The Young Turks / Ana Kasparian, Jimmy Dore, and John Iadarola ☮
PLUTOCRACY: “The Pathology of the Rich White Family” / Chris Hedges ☮
Portraits of former Presidents Goerge W. Bush, left, and his father George H.W. Bush which are part of the exhibit “The Art of Leadership: A President’s Diplomacy,” are on display at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2014. The exhibit of world leader portraits painted by George W. Bush opens Saturday and runs through June 3. (AP Photo/Benny Snyder)
The pathology of the rich white family is the most dangerous pathology in America. The rich white family is cursed with too much money and privilege. It is devoid of empathy, the result of lifetimes of entitlement. It has little sense of loyalty and lacks the capacity for self-sacrifice. Its definition of friendship is reduced to “What can you do for me?” It is possessed by an insatiable lust to increase its fortunes and power. It believes that wealth and privilege confer to it a superior intelligence and virtue. It is infused with an unchecked hedonism and narcissism. And because of all this, it interprets reality through a lens of self-adulation and greed that renders it delusional. The rich white family is a menace. The pathologies of the poor, when set against the pathologies of rich white people, are like a candle set beside the sun.
