From Jesse's Cafe:
From a reader:
"The Hedges video is superb. He is referring to this article, as I’m sure you’re aware: Why the Occupy Movement Frightens the Corporate Elite
The article indicates that he has far better answers than anyone else at this point in my opinion. The Elite have significant weaknesses. They are psychologically stunted, adolescent and in effect if not actuality sociopathic, as you have made clear with your posts and links. And corporations are artificial, fictional people, created by the state, which can be as “easily” undone as done, a stroke of the pen.
So long as people see themselves as things, “labor”, metabolic lumps without meaning, we are lost because the Darwinian model, which is the bastard progeny of Materialism, prevails.
Nihilism is an appropriate description of the world, the point being that those who have bought into this worldview have no underlying motive to act unselfishly, and not for immediate gain or sensation. They sometimes, perhaps often, lose themselves in alcohol, drugs, TV, pornography, greed, the lust for power, or suicide to escape. Terminal violence is easily justified if we are simply disposing of things.
I think I know that you understand this through your lens of Christianity. I also have a very strong belief, knowledge in God, but “He” is far less well defined and far more powerful and all-encompassing, truly incomprehensible, in my world than Christian dogma would describe. Nor are we apart from "Him". In my humble view, we will not find our way successfully through this travail without a thorough reexamination, and new understanding of, both politics and faith, and the true nature of the human condition.
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.kr/2012/10/thoughts-from-patron-on-saturday.html
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