Paul Mason
The “cancelled future” generation has undergone a radical shift from apathetic despair to inspired action, says journalist Paul Mason.
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/jan/23/paul-mason-rev...
The “cancelled future” generation has undergone a radical shift from apathetic despair to inspired action, says journalist Paul Mason.
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/jan/23/paul-mason-rev...
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If we can shine the bright pubic light into every crevice of the work place to create a kind of "panopticon" transparency we can bring democracy to the work place.
No democracy in the work place then no democracy any place else.
We need to flip the values. People then tasks because tasks are only a means to people as ends.
Order needs to be employee, product, customer then last and least the generally useless margins and to often counter productive surplus receipt.
We need to look seriously at limiting in a public way the coercive power of individual or small private group concentrations of capital when they reach certain levels of excess- sound tax policy does just that as it reduces temptations to engage in anti social ventures.
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Nice trolling there :P
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I would agree, but believe the order needs to start with the customer, not the employee. The customer drives the exchange (the customer needs something and the worker is willing to bring that product into existence so it can be sold to the customer). And I also need to add that one of the primary failings of America's productivity for the past fifty years has been the intentional obsolescence of nearly all products. Designed obselescence has made everything more expensive by a factor of at least five and possibly as much as ten on many products. That's highly destructive in many, many ways. It's like the problem with computers tracking the vote in America. You can't verify anything, so finally NOTHING really CAN work. Peace!
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I'm not trying to be mean and don't wish to offend here but would like the OWS supporters to consider a couple of things:
1) you're losing steam and any possible support because you are not thinking logistically
2) ageism will destroy any potential to gain wider support and like it or not, you need it if you want to be more effective
Not all critiques are wrong. The critique that NYC as any kind of place to sport a protest was not the best choice.
Where do the rich head during the Winter, typically? Wamer climates or ski resorts. Show up where they go, and you'll find out faster than the speed of light just how little power you actually have. You'll find out just how quickly, too, the media will be all over you.
Go camp out on the beautiful white sands of Palm Beach, FL right across the street from the mansions. Don't trespass, just get on the public beach areas. Spare yourselves the risk of pneumonia and/or leave a core contingent behind at Zucatti. Go back to NY at Fall.
Better, get your butts in the park right across from the White House. Just don't upset the current population that has been living there for several years. Be respectful to them, be nice to them.
You're too disintegrated, too spread out, nationwide. The ten or fifteen people that show up in a park in Kansas City are NOT going to stay there. Get to the capitol and stay THERE for as long as you can. You need to pick one, maybe two places and demonstrate a majority presence of OWS somehow.
Sorry, but you are so much further off the radar for the vast majority of Americans than you can begin to humbly accept. You're gonna need to be at least 20,000 strong and for much longer than a few days here or there. And please, do yourselves a favor...stop wearing the keffy scarves. People see that on TV and instantly turn you off as political derelicts. The issue of patriotism IS important. Or are you just interested in preaching to the choir? You'd be far, far better served to wear red,white, and blue than that crap. Stop undermining your own goals by aligning yourselves, even superficially, with any kind of violent radicals, anarchists, racists, homophobes, sexists, or anti-Americans. You will NOT reach the 'undecided' by looking like soccer hooligans.
Or, you know, you could ignore these suggestions totally and carry on for the next several years being ignored.
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