tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post6441586283724665359..comments2024-01-31T16:23:51.283-07:00Comments on Keye Commentary: Dowd on PalinJames Keyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-31829263960769572732010-10-25T11:49:42.170-06:002010-10-25T11:49:42.170-06:00That last paragraph is certainly true in our situa...That last paragraph is certainly true in our situation, where corporate media (esp. television) are the gateway to virtually all information and politics...Michael Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353560855423670828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-40303507555127918052010-10-23T14:44:51.701-06:002010-10-23T14:44:51.701-06:00I am hard pressed to divine what our #1 problem is...I am hard pressed to divine what our #1 problem is, but it would have something to do with having, like Napoleon in Russia, advanced beyond our supply lines – on so many fronts: material, conceptually, we have almost completely given up on being in charge of the forces that we have created with our technologies; and with the world’s ‘smartest’ failing and screwing us, over people are turning to those ‘just like us.’ <br /><br />Real change, that is, change that would actually reconnect human action and thinking to substantive Reality, will only be on the table when there is no other choice, when every illusion as been lost.James Keyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11059210373687674369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-82754420092745924722010-10-20T14:54:50.819-06:002010-10-20T14:54:50.819-06:00Of course, you probably can't propose real cha...Of course, you probably can't propose real change and get away with it. Not in our market-totalitarian, corporate-media-mediated system. Real change is not "serious."Michael Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353560855423670828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4739713151901293558.post-14757060746197172302010-10-20T14:52:08.528-06:002010-10-20T14:52:08.528-06:00I'm quite sick of this canard that the Tea Par...I'm quite sick of this canard that the Tea Party is our #1 problem. Our #1 problem is the lack of a genuine opposition party, i.e., the thoroughgoing sold-for-money bankruptcy of the Democratic Party.<br /><br />If Sarah Palin becomes President, she will merely be the weakest in a long line of weak figurehead babysitters. The establishment will rumble along its present course, unaltered.<br /><br />I am also quite sure that, if some faction actually dared to discuss real change that wasn't a mere marketing slogan, people would come out in droves again to elect that faction.<br /><br />Until then, what a horrible, tragic farce.Michael Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353560855423670828noreply@blogger.com