06-08-2012, 04:42 AM
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.
Why don't American oligarchs fear the consequences of their corruption, and how can that be changed?
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...e32089.htm
"... I see no evidence that "rich people are very, very afraid" at least not by their actions. And that, to me, is the problem. That fear a lot more of it is necessary. Their ability to rope themselves off from the society they are degrading, combined with the para-militarization of domestic police forces (aggressively displayed in response to the Occupy movement and related protests), and the rapidly increasing domestic powers of surveillance and detention (designed to intimidate the citizenry and thus deter and guard against mass protests), have convinced them, I think, that they need not fear any protest movements or social unrest, that America can and will become more and more of a police state to suppress it. An elite class that is free to operate without limits whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. That's the conundrum Hayes' book was written to examine, and it was the crux of our discussion below:...."
Why don't American oligarchs fear the consequences of their corruption, and how can that be changed?
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...e32089.htm
"... I see no evidence that "rich people are very, very afraid" at least not by their actions. And that, to me, is the problem. That fear a lot more of it is necessary. Their ability to rope themselves off from the society they are degrading, combined with the para-militarization of domestic police forces (aggressively displayed in response to the Occupy movement and related protests), and the rapidly increasing domestic powers of surveillance and detention (designed to intimidate the citizenry and thus deter and guard against mass protests), have convinced them, I think, that they need not fear any protest movements or social unrest, that America can and will become more and more of a police state to suppress it. An elite class that is free to operate without limits whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power. That's the conundrum Hayes' book was written to examine, and it was the crux of our discussion below:...."
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