Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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In my opinion, anyone who thinks it’s a simple as denouncing that one word isn’t dealing with a sophisticated analysis of what’s wrong and what it will take to change it.
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7/ Do something radical today; enjoy a park or a novel or a conversation that goes nowhere. Take a stand for things that matter most, so often things that the market says are things that matter least. What the market says is worthless is often the most worthy thing of all.
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6/ We’ve got to free ourselves from the dictates of a mentality that sees everything and everyone as merely a product to be sold. So many of us are twisted up like pretzels, not even knowing anymore who we would be if we weren’t feeling forced to please someone or something.
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4/ Looking for results in terms of material things is different looking for deeper understanding, a greater capacity to love, or a more soulful view of things. We’ve peripheralized life’s greatest treasures by obsessively seeking its cheapest thrills.
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3/ When our only bottom line in life is what we can get out of something, we develop a skewed relationship to things that matter. “What can I get out of this?” is not the highest line of questioning for the person seeking the most meaningful life.
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2/ Everything has become a marketed product, from the way we look to the way we act to what we do professionally and how we do it – and particularly dangerously at this point in our history, our politics.
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1/ The worst part of contemporary capitalism is not just what it’s done to our economy but what it’s done to our heads. Our entire society, and the mindset that dominates it, has been infused with a marketing mentality.
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Beyond belief.
Federal judge strikes down Trump plan to slash food stamps for 700,000 unemployed Americans wapo.st/2T4uByv
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Yep. Domestic police and federal troops acting more like an occupying army than like anything even approaching the concept of “keepers of the peace.”
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They just don’t care, and they’ve basically purged the government of anyone who could make them enforce the law. This is how authoritarianism works.
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As though the Iraq War had not done enough damage, one of its most pernicious consequences was the trend of sending last year’s version of military equipment to domestic police forces for use here.
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The Iraq war has cost the United States approximately $2 trillion. Although in humanitarian and geopolitical terms it is considered to have been a huge failure, for the military industrial complex it was a huge success.
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