Posted on 01/19/2014 2:46:33 AM PST by grimalkin
Just imagine! Imagine a world without Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. Salon.com released an excerpt from the upcoming book "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" that asks its readers to do just that.
The writers of the book want a socialist America, one that would have "a democratic, accessible-to-all media" controlled by "working people [who will] collectively and individually influence mass culture." The book abhors capitalist societies' news, which it says is "selected, organized, and presented by an army of self-important publishers, editors, and writers who follow their corporate employers' political line."
In this new socialist society that has "erased corporate control," there will no longer be advertisements filling newspapers or commercial breaks on TV. The media would be owned by "labor unions, neighborhood associations, and cultural centers." That way, the "media can represent the interests of working people" -- not the interests of corporate sponsors. (snip)
This guide to utopia will be available January 21, 2014 for the low, low capitalist price of $15.99.
(Excerpt) Read more at truthrevolt.org ...
20 years?
I rather doubt that.
10 tops before they meet in the middle.
20 years? our positions will be reversed, with both trajectories set to widen the gap.
Unless we stop our own slide.
Bell Labs was just a relatively small R&D outfit shared by AT&T and their subsidiary Western Electric. And yes, they did innovate things. The problem was that AT&T was neither willing nor able to convert this into national scale communications at the consumer level.
Their management was calcified, and as a monopoly, had no incentive to change, which would mean that Western Electric would have to retool and repurpose.
A good comparison was Ford under Henry Ford. After making the very successful Model T, the public wanted a heck of a lot more, but the most he was willing to give them was the Model A. He was so rigid he wouldn’t even allow a different body color than black.
And yes, some people were convinced that things were better when the only alternative was the Model T.
So you’ve been strip searched and sexually assaulted by gov. agents? Been illegally arrested by gov. agents? Has anyone/gov. agent ever told you to be silent or they’d arrest you? Sure, the Dems would like to create a totalitarian state, but it’s not nearly like that yet. You’re still free. Freer than most humans. Because the gov. does a number of unconstitutional things does not mean you’re living in a prison.
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