tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7482512119400495508..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: When Getting It Wrong No Longer MattersThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-63343314357653324652015-02-22T18:54:14.694-08:002015-02-22T18:54:14.694-08:00No, that's fine Toby. I don't mind at all...No, that's fine Toby. I don't mind at all. Whatever you like.<br /><br />The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76746553568002505682015-02-22T17:41:50.396-08:002015-02-22T17:41:50.396-08:00I agree with Lorne. Hope you don't mind, Mound...I agree with Lorne. Hope you don't mind, Mound, but I linked to this over at Canadian Malcontent, right in the middle of the front page. <br /><br />http://www.canadianmalcontent.net/forum/index.php<br /><br />Click the Discuss link and it takes you into the forum. Another link brings the reader right back here for your full essay. Tobyhttp://www.canadianmalcontent.net/forum/index.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-45155811516392018722015-02-22T16:45:56.696-08:002015-02-22T16:45:56.696-08:00That's very kind, Lorne, but this thing would ...That's very kind, Lorne, but this thing would take a lot of editing before it could be submitted anywhere. Right now it's sort of like answering the door in your bathrobe and old slippers. <br /><br />As long as the message comes through I'm content.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-6933531596950095322015-02-22T15:41:05.823-08:002015-02-22T15:41:05.823-08:00A very thought-provoking and passionate essay, Mou...A very thought-provoking and passionate essay, Mound. I really think that you should share it with a wider audience. How about submitting it to The Tyee or Rabble.ca?Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-72192743501099347852015-02-22T14:21:25.218-08:002015-02-22T14:21:25.218-08:00I think we surrendered, Toby, even if we didn'...I think we surrendered, Toby, even if we didn't understand it at the time. We put our trust in the political caste, which I've renamed the "villainry", to do what was right for us and our country. As the United States plunged into neoliberalism during the Reagan years, Canada drifted along in her wake. Instead of resisting it, our politicians accepted it as an inevitability and they responded more or less as one straight across our political spectrum. <br /><br />What once were multi-nationals became trans-nationals, effectively stateless and beholden to no nation. We had a window in which to respond to that, to fight back, but we stood mute as significant parts of our sovereignty were surrendered to entities over which we retained almost no control or even much influence.<br /><br />Look at it this way, we are today trapped in an exponential growth economic paradigm that is suicidal. Even as we consume the Earth's resources at 1.5X their replenishment rate - a truly lethal dependency - we don't give it a second thought. That has become our orthodoxy and we won't see it questioned.<br /><br />It's madness. That's all it is, madness.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76628929026921028432015-02-22T13:38:44.711-08:002015-02-22T13:38:44.711-08:00Neoliberalism is a fairy tale. It is Ayn Rand'...Neoliberalism is a fairy tale. It is Ayn Rand's dystopia. The terrible part is that so many believe it to be an ideal. Remember the movie <i>Wall Street</i>? Gordon Gekko's <i>greed is good</i> speech? What so many did not understand was that Gekko was the bad guy. <br /><br />How did we get here? Tobynoreply@blogger.com