If that should occur, the future of North America and Europe may look a lot like the present of Brazil and Mexico, with nepotistic oligarchies clustered in a few swollen metropolitan areas surrounded by hinterlands that are derelict, depopulated, and despised. What Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), with its managers in skyscrapers and its oppressed factory workers underground, was for an earlier industrial era, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (2013), with its sybaritic elite in orbit and its desperate earthbound slum-dwellers, might prove to be for the era that succeeds neoliberalism—a prophecy in the form of a nightmare.
Only power can check power. Only a major reassertion of the political power, economic leverage, and cultural influence of national wage-earning majorities of all races, ethnicities, and creeds can stop the degeneration of the US and other Western democracies into high-tech banana republics. To supplement conventional electoral politics, reformers will need to rebuild old institutions or build new ones that can integrate working-class citizens of all origins into decision-making in government, the economy, and the culture, so that everyone can be an insider.
Reconstructing democratic pluralism in North America and Europe to permit cross-class power sharing is a challenge as difficult as it is urgent. The alternative is grim: a future of gated communities and mobs led by demagogues at their gates.
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Kafalar Karışık (ve birazda yorgun)Alıntı
Anlamak mümkün değil Almando! Oysa ben insanları her şeye rağmen artniyetsiz sevebilecek kadar faşistim. Bundan daha büyük politik eziyet olabilir mi yeryüzüne?!
İyi gecelerAlıntı
Gördünüz işte, şarkılar hafifletmiyor kalp ağrınızı. Alkol dağıtmıyor efkâr bulutlarını. Şiir de okusanız, deniz kenarlarında tek başına da dolaşsanız, bir konserde sabahlara kadar da dansetseniz, O gitti. Bu kadar.
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