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Monday, December 14, 2009

Things Nobody Could Have Predicted

Nobody could have predicted that Copenhagen would collapse when the truth is that rich nations fully expect to flourish in a Greenhouse future behind high walls and hard-hearted armies and think that the same billions of humans will die from climate change whose deaths from starvation, unclean water, and cheaply treatable diseases they are cheerfully indifferent to here and now. Nobody could have predicted that Lieberman would betray the Democrats yet again when they have never made him face a real consequence for his serial betrayals in the past. Nobody could have predicted that neoliberals would think unemployment is a secondary consideration to billionaires staying billionaires as a measure of whether or not the economy is in recovery. Nobody could have predicted that California held hostage to an obstructionist Republican minority would rather turn into Somalia than make anybody pay taxes for indispensable services, or that a US Senate held hostage to an obstructionist Republican minority and a handful of Conservadems would destroy any chance for healthcare reform to help millions of their suffering citizens or to address world-destroying climate change or halt the re-emergence via the fraudulent financialization of the economy of a death-dealing immiserating feudal society. Nobody could have predicted that bailed out banksters would hoover up billions in cash to save their skins after squandering trillions in ponzi schemes and then refuse to change their behavior one bit. Nobody could have predicted that sociopaths will actually behave like sociopaths and that a system that celebrates sociopaths would not be a magical paradise.

2 comments:

jimf said...

> Nobody could have predicted that sociopaths will actually
> behave like sociopaths and that a system that celebrates
> sociopaths would not be a magical paradise.

Well, the "magical" part here is that all the wonderfulness
(as well as the terribleness) created by sociopaths
behaving like sociopaths is eventually supposed to trickle
down to the rest of us whiners and losers and make our lives
more wonderful (even if we don't deserve it)
than they would have been without the sociopaths.

That **is** the theory, you know, and it's believed by an
awful lot of people. Who knows, maybe it's even true.

Dale Carrico said...

I don't think that is really truly believed by anybody at all. The one's who claim to believe really mean to say by "trickle down" FUCK YOU ha ha ha, and those of us who keep getting trickled on have always heard precisely that, precisely as we should.