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God Bless the Free Market

Posted: July 31st, 2022, 5:43 pm
by mnaz
God bless the Market.
Let it blow its bubbles
and pray to the gods of
profit and sacred greed,
Amen.

Re: God Bless the Free Market

Posted: August 1st, 2022, 8:26 am
by saw
It gives me chills when folks personify things such as, The Market......it suggests a godlike entity.....I feel the same way when once pledges his loyalty to, The Party

Re: God Bless the Free Market

Posted: August 1st, 2022, 8:26 pm
by stilltrucking
Chills? Personify?
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Welcome to the brave new world
I think I will incorporate myself and then I will be immortal
“Who is John Galt”
"Citizens United"
Corporate Personhood
"Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company"

"A coporation is an externalising machine in the same way that a shark is a killing machine" - Robert Monks - Corporate governance advisor
The corporation - psychopathic and immortal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQYsk-8dWg

Re: God Bless the Free Market

Posted: August 4th, 2022, 10:49 am
by mnaz
The Corporation -- hastening another mass extinction? In some ways it's just another organism on earth that may or may not adapt and survive, depending more heavily this time on how its relationship to/with its host(ess) evolves...

Re: God Bless the Free Market

Posted: August 4th, 2022, 11:10 am
by mnaz
Btw, this is from some ranting I did ten years ago (let's call it, say, "leftist" or "Marxist" in step with the Rightwing rhetorical fashioning of our current climate), reflecting on the last big crash and its "bubbles." It's a condensed snippet... The original had more stuff in it, like...

Rows of half-built houses whistled dry wind.
There was some sort of crash, feels like the big one.
The big house of cards after an orgy of drunken debt.
We'd be down to cowpokes riding in ghost-burbs, and
a screen would still flicker and mumble markets,
oblivious to their wreckage, a delusional patient.

God bless the Free-market, myth that I love.
Let is Bubble us and correct us.
Greed is light, it's your right from Above.

Et Cet. You get the gist...