Not Good, Just Not Bad

John W. Shoen senior producer of MSNBC business section: "We're not in the 'greed is good' camp, but we've yet to see an economic system that can run entirely without it. Greed is really just an extreme form of AMBITION for material wealth. If we had no incentives to reward ambition, not much would get done. State controlled-planned economies generated a pretty poor track record in the 20th century."

These little propoganda pieces are strategically placed throughout the US "information" system, from media to textbooks to popular culture, on such a regular basis that they are not noticed. Subliminal, sublime. This one incorporates a number of important memes which are meant to reproduce and strengthen the dominant ideology in the softest of deliveries. Christian morality, Darwinism, Ayn Rand, Freidman, Thatcher, all reaffirmed with elan and then internalized at a molecular level!

A number of my friends here work as sub-contractors for the "military-vital complex", as Hardt and Negri describe it, namely Raytheon Corp. through a local intermediary high in the corporate hierachy. All are "liberals" or "progressives" who are offered wages triple or quadruple what they could earn here if they go to Texas for certain period of time and work on "projects" which they are not allowed to discuss. The local man who arranges all this "largess" is one of the biggest contributors to environmental and progressive political causes in the region.A real benefactor.

One of my best friends makes a great living as a personal chef for a corporate lawyer who owns a huge trophy home here. She specializes in "re-structuring" corporations to make them "leaner" and more profitible, downsizing, slashing, all that business. I myself make my living taking very wealthy people fly fishing so that they may relax and enjoy some liesure.Where would I be without them? They are constantly at pains to assure me that one can do good and do well. Somebody gives those 800 dollar haircuts!

We can never underestimate the pure effectiveness of capitalisms methods of reproducing itself and colonizing territory. It removes the imaginary and leaves a Spectacle. And who would be foolish enough to bite the hand that feeds it!