This month’s issue of AdBusters is a killer. With the recession continues, will this perhaps be finally the end of capitalism as we know it? What will be known as in the future as? I like the concept of Post-Pythagorean , I’ve sure had enough of their nonsense dominating our thinking.
Kick It Over Manifesto
We, the undersigned, make this accusation: that you, the
teachers of neoclassical economics and the students that you
graduate, have perpetuated a gigantic fraud upon the world.
You claim to work in a pure science of formula and law, but yours is a
social science, with all the fragility and uncertainty that this entails.
We accuse you of pretending to be what you are not.
You hide in your offices, protected by your mathematical jargon,
while in the real world, forests vanish, species perish and human
lives are callously destroyed. We accuse you of gross negligence in
the management of our planetary household.
You have known since its inception that one of your measures of
economic progress, the Gross Domestic Product, is fundamentally
flawed and incomplete, and yet you have allowed it to become a global
standard, reported day in, day out in every form of media. We accuse
you of recklessly projecting an illusion of progress.
You have done great harm, but your time is coming to a close. Your
systems are crumbling, your flaws increasingly laid bare. An economic
revolution has begun, as hopeful and determined as any in history. We
will have our clash of economic paradigms, we will have our moment
of truth, and out of each will come a new economics – open, holistic, human ‑scale.
On campus after campus, we will chase you old goats out of power.
Then, in the months and years that follow, we will begin the work of
reprogramming your doomsday machine.
Sign the manifesto at
kickitOver.OrG
the share button is so small, you should make it more visible
It’s true Neshat. I’ll have to come up with a better solution.
In the meantime, click on it!
This is interesting, I’d love to see the issue. I myself cant’t wait to see what a global capitalism system evolves into. I am not in total support of Capitalism, however, you cannot jump from a feudal or slave based mode if production and straigt into today’s model. Capitalism through grat $$$ economic competition has greatly advanced technological science and has modernized many countries in the world. Times are definitely changing and calling for again, an evolved state of production. With the second wave of technology, (being nano) there is great potential and risks to come.
Sorry for the typos and repetitious words, it’s iPhone and my ten minute break. Back to the printing press!
I definitely agree. Capitalism definitely has its place in the evolution of civilization. These years are definitely going to go down in history as some serious cross roads. What’s interesting though is with all this new technology, in particular to nano tech, I think we have even more of the responsibility to make the right choices. Capitalism can’t be the way we continue with the current conditions, it’s going to bring out the worst in everybody.
The more I research and consider, the more I can’t part with the notion that we must go on the road of a resource based economy instead of the current model of preservation of scarcity. To know that we have the technology to harness the planets resources and to distribute them perhaps even in abundance, it does my head in to know that we still live in such a incompetent model of society. Oh, but it’s going to be a long path ahead…
pretty good job with an iPhone! What are you printing?
Mostly boxes and different specialized packaging systems for both private and public companies. I work on a three person Flexography press, the printmaker in me enjoys it. I wonder if a human today could possibly correspond well with mankind 500 yes from now. (Assuming we make it that far, and what about 1K) I hope we don’t end up going to war for water amd natural resources. I’ve always been interested in the Universal with preserved varying cultures. I used to read a lot of Herbert Marcuse and stuff like “One Dimensional Man.” Although I don’t agree with everything he says, it’s interesting how he conveys the idea of being able to obtain the resources both natural and technological and how man (all people) must be slaves to society before enlightenment. (Or something like that.)I can’t wait to live like the “Fifth Element,” and where’s my Hover Board!?
yes exacrly….where are the hoverboards?!