In Search of a Metaphor to Combine what We've Seen in America, Myanmar, Gaza, and elsewhere This Past Year

NOTE: To be fair, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza also appear to be one or two of the bullies described by Brecht, i.e. as far as the Arab world of donors is concerned.

 

AMERICAN MONSTER BANKS AND AIG

http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine10122008.html

I don’t know about you.

http://jonathanturley.org/2009/04/14/spanish-to-seek-criminal-charges-against-six-bush-officials-while-court-asks-if-obama-will-investigate/

However, the American government’s monster bailout of banks and AIG (while neglecting production and laborers/homeowners in 2009) has appeared since 2008 to be no more than a clear case of some nearly 300 million Americans (and their nation state) serving as old men in the Bertolt Brecht metaphor.  They and their dreams are being sacrificed in the name of defending the land against a promised catastrophe if those banks go under.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/02/aig-to-retrade-its-bailout-yet-again.html

Naturally, the banks and financial firms, like AIG, appear to have actually been the neighborhood bullies.  That is, they are not just metaphors but a monster of a man-made or nation-permitted bully (or bullies) .

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2009/03/30/hypocrisy-obama-boots-gm-ceo-but-aig-board-member-named-to-obamas-task-force-on-tax-reform-what-about-the-bank-ceos/

Companies that actually produce things are allowed to fail, but the banks are not.

That is, in 2009, not a crumb seems to be falling to (1) those who have already lost their homes and jobs due to usurious banks and financial firms—and criminal financial terms, (2) those who soon will lose their jobs and (3) those who actually make American life substantially livable and loveable.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/80501/

 

NOW

Now that we have a clear metaphor for our reality in 2009, it is time to ask you Americans, Germans, British, Irish, what-have-you the following:

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