It would be surprising if the corpocracy
eventually frightened itself from its own excesses and voluntarily started
sharing its power and wealth with the rest of society and stopped threatening
other nations. And it would be surprising if there were enough Peter Buffetts among
the power elite willing and able to influence the corpocracy to voluntarily reverse
A predictable ending I shudder to
think would be the corpocracy continuing on its course to eventual self-destruction
and
In the preface to my book I wrote
that it "is not a doomsday book because the corpocracy can be toppled by
democracy power if only it can be mustered." It was an optimistic book. How
could it have been otherwise so filled with so many proposed reform
initiatives? This article, more than two years later, has turned the corner and
is looking more pessimistically at
But the possibility of something
surprising happening or the probability of being predicted mean nothing more
than what those words mean. They don't mean certainty. I can't say that I am
certain about
And then, perhaps not. As I was
finishing this version of my odyssey I was also rereading the life story of
Stà ©phane Hessel, who died earlier this year at the age of 95. I so wish I had
known him personally. He had been a French resistance fighter during WWII, a
concentration-camp escapee, a diplomat, and a writer. He was the co-author of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created in 1948. At the age of 93 he
wrote the best-selling "Time
for Outrage" that sold over 4 million copies in 35 countries and was the
inspiration behind the Occupy movement. [14] As they say in my native state, "Lord
willing and the creek don't rise," I will get to be 95 in 17 more years. I
could possibly do a lot more social activism between now and then. As another
saying goes, "better to try than not to have tried at all." We certainly can't
rely on the non-profit industrial complex to free
Cited Sources
[1]. Paul Craig Roberts. The Institutionalization of Tyranny. January 19, 2013, OpEdNews.
[2]. Gary Brumback. The
Devil's Marriage: Break Up the Corpocracy or Leave Democracy in the Lurch.
[3]. Gary Brumback. Organizing and Unleashing Two-Fisted Democracy Power at a Treadmill Pace. OpEdNews.com, February 23, 2012.
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