A friend who prefers to remain anonymous answered the question this way:
Not having much fun at all. Verizon is winning more protection in Congress, spectrum reform is politically off the table, and a new "webcast right" is being invented by the executive branch that creates a new form of government-issued property right that was never contemplated in the US constitution.
And we have a US President who thinks he does not answer to the law, but can invent his own interpretations, while a public believes that data mining actually works, torture is justified unless it involves near-death experiences, and "precision guided" weapons never miss.
The guys who think fun is helping the obscenely wealthy get more power over everyone else, or who don’t give a fuck about anyone else, you probably are having lots of fun.
There’s lots of money to make if you have no scruples.
If you want to help do something about the first paragraph’s funlessness, then I’d suggest you join us at the Freedom 2 Connect gathering. Use the secret code to get the special deal. I think it’s still good for a few days.
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Jon Husband 02.25.06 at 11:56
The italicised quotes are a nice succinct description of the acquarium in which we now swim in North America, at least.
My question .. if you have some awareness of the scope and depth of this set of conditions and the structural reinforcing rods that are legislatures, laws, unscrupulous power and connections that make it all go, etc. … how does one stay oput of despair ?
I suppose that this question is also related to all the yakking in the blogosphere (main place I spend my time reading) a year ago or so when some funsters were kinda saying that the part of society that adores or supports Bushco are kinda like abused partners or dogs .. you get used to accepting the next indignity, and the next, and the next .. until you realize, and/or begin to believe, that you have little or no worth, and are just there to be used for whatevre purpose your master decides.
What does history tell us about plutocracies ? Don’t they all eventually crumble or get pulled apart and held under for long enough ? Usually with much gnashing of teeth and spilling of blood ?
Oh, well .. back to the tv show (not