"Only a crisis -- actual or perceived -- produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable."
That is, there's great opportunity to be had for those brilliant and ruthless enough to reap the whirlwind when the sh*t hits the fan.
It's then only a matter of time before those educated and experienced in Friedman's "disaster capitalism" make the next logical leap. If he's right that chaos leads to change, why should those who have done the planning and who have the resources needed to manage that change wait passively for chaos to break out. If we can, why not set off and encourage that fertile chaos? Let loose the dogs of war and give change a chance.
For someone who has worked for many years in the anti-war, peace movement, the absurdity of the Libya war is the icing on the cake for what amounts to the screwing of the ordinary working American -- even those who have not a clue who it is screwing them.
The dishonest, upward, elite-only distribution of TARP funds and the feel-good humanitarian justifications for intervening militarily in a third expensive foreign war means that the willful neglect of the ordinary working American has reached an all-time low.
For the original essay go to IN THE MIND FIELD at:
http://www.inthemindfield.com/
(1) "Where the bailout went wrong" NY Times:
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