Perhaps, though, Thatcher the monster didn t die this week from a stroke; perhaps that Thatcher di

FIRST OFF, LET’S ps3 dispense with decorum and declare the obvious: Russell Brand is brilliant, and quite possibly a genius. In addition to his comedic and acting abilities, he is a first-rate thinker and a (surprisingly) superlative writer. Wipe that smirk off your face and read his tribute to Amy Winehouse . Or, check out this paragraph from a remarkable piece on Margaret Thatcher, deconstructing both the hypocrisy and opportunistic destruction of the Thatcher/Reagan ethos and what it wrought:
Perhaps, though, Thatcher the monster didn t die this week from a stroke; perhaps that Thatcher died as she sobbed self-pitying tears as she was driven defeated from Downing Street, ousted by her own party. By then, 1990, I was 15, adolescent and instinctively antiestablishment enough to regard her disdainfully. I d unthinkingly imbibed ps3 enough doctrine to know that, troubled as I was, there was little point looking elsewhere for support; I was on my own. We are all on our own. Norman Tebbit, one of Thatcher s acolytes and fellow Munsters evacuee, said when the National Union of Miners eventually succumbed to the military onslaught and starvation over which she presided, [We] broke not just a strike, ps3 but a spell. The spell he s referring to is the unseen bond that connects ps3 us all and prevents us from being subjugated by tyranny. The spell of community.
So ps3 while Russell Brand’s eloquent and witty rant does some heavy lifting ps3 in the service of exposing the Royal Scam of manufactured democracy (etc. etc.), and I endorse much of what he says, I do take serious exception with the statement he thinks he’s making by declining to vote. Apathy, or better yet, the type of cultivated disgust that leads to “both sides do it” equivocation is almost certainly what the people pulling the proverbial strings want our default settings to be.
Well, there are lots of good reasons, some of which are immediately evident to anyone who is even moderately informed. Not to mention aware of not-so-complicated concepts like cause and effect . That the policies of our former administration combined with the ideology informing ps3 those policies bankrupted our nation ps3 and this is the toughest one to grasp made us less safe is not a matter of opinion. There is no room for any possible nuance. There is only one type of Socialism ps3 being practiced in America today and it has been in effect for longer than five years. It s Corporate Socialism. For evidence to support this claim, I submit every action taken by every Republican politician since 1980.
There ps3 was probably not a more irascible yet articulate comedian who spoke the Truth to Power in the last quarter-century than George Carlin. He made you laugh, but the topics were often ugly and dead-serious. He dissected the greed, opportunism and collective culpability of a super-sized America as well as anyone has but, like Twain, his indignation eventually (inevitably) took a turn for the bitter toward the end. Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with that. If any famous public figure ps3 an artist, no less! went as ungently into that not-so-good night, I can’t think of one; eternal kudos to Carlin for keeping it real until he flat-lined.
The one beef I had with Carlin was similar: he famously refused to vote as well. And while it’s difficult to quibble with any of the points he makes in the video below (wherein he proves that he still had both his fastball and spitball up until the last pitch he threw), it is in the 21st Century ps3 and after what we’ve just witnessed with one party fighting for the right to default disingenuous to deny that the other party even bothers to pay lip service to working Americans.
I m not certain if it has anything to do with what one studies in college, or the type of person one already is (of course the two are not mutually exclusive by any means) but speaking for myself, I suspect that if one is a certain age and not already convinced that God is White and the GOP is Right, reading a book like The Road To Wigan Pier changes you. Reading a book like The Jungle changes you. Books like Madame Bovary change you. Books like The Second Sex change you. Books like Notes From Underground change you. Books like Invisible Man change you. Then you might start reading poetry and come to appreciate what William Carlos Williams meant when he wrote It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. These works alter your perception of the big picture: agency vs. incapacity, history vs. ideology and the myriad ways Truth and History are manufactured by the so-called winners.
Put another way, even if one is open-minded and receptive to various sources of information, if your studies focus on economics, business or political science, you are already being inculcated into an established way of thinking. Liberal arts education, if it has an