Post Modern Entreprenuers

These ads were found scattered throughout the last Harpers and speak to our non-culture:

"Form a real relationship with someone in extreme poverty!"

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This publication targets an academic, intellectual left/progressive that likes difficult crossword puzzles and occasional correctives to neoliberalism.

Following up on Celebrating Conservatism I found some UTubes of Martin "Red" Beckman,a libertarian C B should check out if he hasn't already.He spoke to this group a few weeks ago and has been on the right-wing Montana scene for a long time. I like this quote of his: "Knowledge is Truth stored in the Mind". One of their symbols for evil government is a black panther. The Wobblies have a black cat so felines seem well represented. I also picked up a copy of the John Birch Society zine, The New American,with a big piece on that sheriff I saw, Richard Mack.He and Sarah Palin would make a formidable ticket for a third party.

From the New York Review of Books:
"We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts."
from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristoff and (his wife) Sheryl WuDunn

Here is a classic example of that well-intentioned liberal cosmopolitanism based on universal values of justice and liberty but manifested through markets, private property and individual rights.Reproducing exploitive systems as it seeks to end exploitation and thwarting human emancipation as it aims for individual emancipation. How many more decades will liberals cling to development and identity politics?

The next book reviewed is Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yanus. Basically, he believes women make kinder, gentler capitalists.
"The focus ,in development strategy, (is) on material accumulation and achievement. This focus needs to be shifted to human beings, their initiative and enterprise."

Capitalisms "focus" will "shift",all right. as it Spectacularly embraces, encloses and absorbs this new lexicon. Such naivete is touching.




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