The Wall Street Protesters Have Recognized the Cancer
By James Hunter
See this article) Yahoo took the additional step of blocking emails that even mentioned it. (See this article). Why this deliberate inattention to an obviously important news event? Of course it is an aspect of the mainstream’s task of “manufacturing consent”. But perhaps it would be instructive to look into the matter in a bit more detail.
The Cancer Stage Of Capitalism” John McMurtry suggests that “our social immune system is being overwhelmed by growing out-of-control money market cancer.” He makes a strong case for the idea that unregulated capitalism has become a cancerous growth that profoundly threatens the well being of its host, the human community, and ultimately the earth.
In a key paragraph, McMurtry spells out what may be his most salient insight:
Perhaps this sheds light on why the mainstream was so anxious to not notice the protest at Wall Street. The protesters have recognized the cancer, and they would call this to the attention to those in this country who are still in the dark. The inability of many people to recognize the cancer is understandable when one considers the systematic manipulation of the news by mainstream outlets. But understandable or not, it may be fatal to large parts of the ecological web, our species included.
Changing beliefs is not easy, but that is where the battle must be fought. Picking the wrong battlefield could be fatal to our cause. Certainly we must disrupt the normal flow of things to one degree or another, as the New York protesters are doing, to make an important point. Business cannot continue as usual. But these disruptions have the primary purpose of helping new understandings break into the largely hypnotized and managed consciousness of the American people. There is another way to think about things . We must somehow get the attention of Americans if they are to hear this message. A military or physical battle with the establishment is not useful in this regard. The establishment is very good at physical repression and at killing when necessary. They are better at these things than we will ever be. We must be aggressive. Far more aggressive than we have been up to this point. But not violent. Again, the protesters in New York provide us a useful role model in this respect.
1. We are for an open and honest interchange of ideas, based on facts and carried out with mutual respect. For this we need a media the accurately reports the news, and that gives voice to the full range of opinion in the country.
2. We are for an economic system that distributes the resources and decision making authority in an equitable manner.
3. We are for a health system which has as its bottom line the health of the entire population, not the profit of a small minority of already obscenely rich individuals.
4. We are for a way of life that is ecologically non-destructive and that is sustainable.
5. We are for a true democracy of nations as opposed to the current system of rule by the rich and powerful through intimidation, domination and war.
Author’s Website: http://www.politicsofhealth.org/
Author’s Bio: Write for Politics of Health and work with David Werner on issues of health. Worked in the field of “Mental Health” all my life. Am now retired. Jim
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