The Postcatastrophe Economy reviewed by the Christian Science Monitor

[FRED]

Re: The Postcatastrophe Economy reviewed by the Christian Science Monitor

I suggest creating a Facebook page for the book so people can become fans and "like" it. Get enough people, it starts getting noticed (might sell some books too!)

Good idea. We just set one up and a twitter account, too!

[tsetsefly]

Re: The Postcatastrophe Economy reviewed by the Christian Science Monitor

Good idea. We just set one up and a twitter account, too!

why don't you create an itulip facebook page also?

[metalman]

Re: The Postcatastrophe Economy reviewed by the Christian Science Monitor

we gonna let the msm bury the truth about fire economy? f*ck that!

post a message on the jon stewart show forum... suggest ej as a guest with a link to the csmonitor review & janszen.com...

post on sephen colbert's site...

send email to bill mahar's producers...

other ideas?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-...trophe-Economy

http://www.janszen.com

[FRED]

Re: The Postcatastrophe Economy reviewed by the Christian Science Monitor

we gonna let the msm bury the truth about fire economy? f*ck that!

post a message on the jon stewart show forum... suggest ej as a guest with a link to the csmonitor review & janszen.com...

post on sephen colbert's site...

send email to bill mahar's producers...

other ideas?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-...trophe-Economy

http://www.janszen.com

Good idea! FRED signed up and posted to the Colbert site. We're donating to the Keep the Fear Alive rally.

[Sharky]

Re: The Postcatastrophe Economy reviewed by the Christian Science Monitor

Somehow, "capitalism" has been conflated in the greater public mind with "corporatism". Capitalism is the ideologically supported status quo, and virtually everyone considers corporatism a fundamental strut and bearing wall of capitalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is possible to have capitalism without corporatism.

I agree. Conflating corporatism with capitalism seems to be a strategy of the collectivists, used as a scheme to support and encourage more and more legislation. What most corporate executives don't understand when they "work a deal" with government is that they are empowering their own eventual destroyers.

[QUOTE=Aetius Romulous;175114So for me, the fix is to focus on trimming corporatism; removing corporate reach and breadth, redrafting corporate law and governance, removing open ended corporate profit harvesting, costing and including social externalities, Modernized, international GAAP and other accounting treatments, and a host of other changes small and large that I could go on about all day LOL.[/quote]

It may have started as corporatism, but it's really more than corporations now -- it's the ongoing and ever-tightening marriage of government and all businesses. It's really a new kind of fascism ("neofascism"?).

The economy is simply too large and complex for it to even be possible for low-level, highly detailed legislation to avoid massive unintended side-effects; the laws tend to favor one group at the expense of another. Society is slowly but surely degrading into a kind of twisted gang warfare, fought with legislation and the courts.

IMO, the only viable long-term solution is for there to be a total separation of business and government -- true laissez-faire capitalism, not the mixed economy monster that we have today.