How Can Someone Who Understands The Downside of Capitalism So Well...

...Have such a hard time coming to question the ultimate, continuing viability, of an economic operating system hundreds of years old?

It's hard not to have a great deal of respect for Mr. Reich; especially when you are reminded of his discerning prescience for our current state of affairs by the telling video clip that was presented on the linked segment below of Morning Joe. It is something everybody ought to hear.

It's troubling, though, that, even when Mike Barnicle confronts him with what technological change has done to make things so different now, all he can respond with is the same old "get big money out of politics;" arguing only that only the US has the extreme levels of inequality of outcomes we see now, and that other countries are doing just fine with that. A questionable assumption at the get go in my mind, if for no other reason than whatever the differences if inequality might be in absolute terms, what the other countries actually have might still be quite more than is desirable; or that the trend lines there might also be on similar upwards slopes.

More to the real point, however, is the simple question: How can one system, which operates inside the now superior, operational control system, for all subsystems, have something taken out of it when that something is exactly what makes everything go? Put another way: How can you take money out of politics whan money and information are the same damn thing now?

Is it really so hard for good, perceptive people like Mrl Reich, to see that we have a completely new kind of operating environment now. An electrified information environment. And the old, mechanistic thinking that formed Capitalism just no longer applies nearly as much as it used to; especially if we are to remain anything at all resembling a sane, sentient species.

This new environment demands meaning. Involvement in depth. Balance between a number of seeming contradictory forces, and a deep, visceral understanding, of just how interconnected everything is now. Capitalism will never allow us to structure ourselves to the proper degree to achieve what we now require; so now we must demand it. And we must be willing to stop working as a nation to make them take us seriously.

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