oh yes you can “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually” — James Baldwinhttps://twitter.com/DanSchawbel/status/1039108552122617856 …
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In recent years, as inequality yawned and anger swelled, big business and its thought leaders waged a powerful campaign to conquer our culture with their ideas. Ideas that favor power: don’t complain, don’t worry who did it, focus on solutions, this is the best time to be alive.
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I wrote my book to probe and begin to dismantle this culture. Everyone wants quick solutions. But first we have to clear the intellectual smog.
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In the US, we are not citizens, we are consumers. Breeds despair in those who reflect deeply on what can change in the US. I hope to have my pessimism dispelled in the coming years by some epistemological changes.
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That is right on the money. (Forgive the pun)
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It’s a shame. Enjoyed listening to you on Morning Joe. I plan on picking up your book. You seem to have a lot of insight, and you also have great hair
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So TRUE....see Michael Moore's movie: Capitalism, A Love Story. Corporations more than 100 years ago sought to make the word "capitalism" replace "democratic republic"/democracy, as though we run on capital, not votes nor people.
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Tocqueville said it first :) I say this as a French-born, US-bred Canadian
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And that is why philanthropy is such a big business and cultural expectation....trying to make up for all the evil and mistreatment of people during their rise to the economic top of the heap.
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