RADIQAL: OT cont'd: @kámoší disaster kapitalismu od Monbiota:

The worst possible people are in charge at the worst possible time. In the UK, the US and Australia, the politics of the governing parties have been built on the dismissal and denial of risk. Just as these politics have delayed the necessary responses to climate breakdown, ecological collapse, air and water pollution, obesity and consumer debt, so they appear to have delayed the effective containment of Covid-19.

Politics is best understood as public relations for particular interests. The interests come first; politics are the means by which they are justified and promoted. On the left, the dominant interest groups can be very large – everyone who uses public services, for example. On the right they tend to be much smaller. In the US, UK and Australia, they are very small indeed: mostly multi-millionaires and a very particular group of companies: those whose profits depend on the cavalier treatment of people and planet.

The groups these corporations helped to fund – thinktanks and policy units, lobbyists and political action committees – were then used by other interests: private health companies hoping to break up the NHS, pesticide manufacturers seeking to strike down regulatory controls, junk food manufacturers resisting advertising restrictions, billionaires seeking to avoid tax. Between them, these groups honed the justifying ideology for fragmenting and privatising public services, shrinking the state and crippling its ability to govern.

Monbiot, Prescription for Disaster
22nd March 2020
Prescription for Disaster – George Monbiot
https://www.monbiot.com/2020/03/22/prescription-for-disaster/

SUMAC: Beztak to řikáš jen proto, že v hedge fondech nemáš uložený žadný miliony :P

Ne jako vopravdu, je uplně nepochopitelný, že se furt všichni oháněj tím, že to GND a všechno zelený bude stát bambilióny a při tom vynechávají druhou část příběhu, že tyhle bambiliony zas někdo jinej vydělá a že všichni společně na tom vyděláme, to už je snad sprostý slovo pane AB. Že to nebudete vy nebo vaši kámoší, nehodí se nám to do krámu.

Sry za ot hate, v pondělí vidim nějak rudě.

PAD: samozrejme ze nesouhlasim se sypanim trilionu dollaru do burzy za ucelem zachrany aktiv par bilionaru. proc to rikam je, ze free market hujeri jako je ten blb dole se neustale ohaneji tim, ze aby se vsechny krize vyresily, musi se prestat s kontrolou volneho trhu a jakyhkoliv socialne zamerenych regulaci, ktery ochranujou zajem stredni vrstvy, ale musi se nechat vsechno nezdrave vyhnit at uz za jakoukoliv cenu. no a co se pokazde stane, ze prvni co se zachranuje jsou banky a burza, at to stoji co to stoji.

rika: "Za tuto honbu za „zeleností“ a za efektivitou a za neustálý tisk peněz v režii centrálních bank, který tuto honbu umožňoval, teď miliony lidí po celém světě zaplatí ztrátou zaměstnání a dramaticky sníženou životní úrovní."

totalni nesmysl a skoro az kriminalni neznalost situace. za spatna rozhodnuti bankeru a nepripravenost politiku s tim cokoliv delat platime "dramaticky sníženou životní úrovní", nikoliv za to, ze nekdo reguluje volny trh za ucelem zeleneho dealu.

TUHO: IMHO vychazi ze spravnych tezi, ale prekvapive pak vlastne popre sam sebe: to, ze deflacni menova politika, vede jen k zvetseni a odsunuti problemu do budoucna je evidentni. Staci se podivat na to, jak rostou ceny nemovitosti, jak se dale stimuluje moralni hazard, jak penize konci v kapsach majitelu too-big-to-fail korporaci atp. Ovsem nereseni klimaticke krize je take jen pujcovani si z budoucnosti, na ukor nasich deti.
SUMAC: Tobe ta politika FEDu prijde spravna? Ve svetle argumentu vyse by me zajimalo, zda tedy i souhlasis s tim, ze vlastne timto bohati bohatnou a chudi chudnou? Ze se socializuji ztraty a privatizuji zisky?

Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth
Date: May 2020
Publisher: MIT Press
Editors: Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel

Critical Zones. The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth | bruno-latour.fr
http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/838.html

Description
As everybody learned at school, when the position of the Earth in the cosmos is modified, a revolution in social order might ensue. Remember Galileo: when astronomers made the Earth move around the sun, the whole fabric of society felt under attack. Today, again, four centuries later, the role and the position of the Earth is being revolutionized by new disciplines: it appears that human behavior has pushed the Earth to react in unexpected ways. And once again, the whole organization of society is being subverted. Shake the cosmic order and the order of politics will be shaken as well. Except that, this time, the question is not to make the Earth move around the sun, but to move it somewhere else altogether! As if we had to learn anew how to land on it.
— “Landing on Earth? Why would anyone attempt to land there? Are we not already on Earth?”
Well, not quite! And that’s the circumstance this book tries to present to the inquiring reader: it seems that there has been in the past some misinterpretation over what it means to be earthly. If you believe it means “practical”, “mundane”, “secular”, “material” or even “materialist”, you’re in for a surprise