The Failure of Capitalist Myth: "There is always more. Don't think, just take."

Naomi Klein has again written something worth reading:
Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism

a robbery in progress, the greatest heist in monetary history

DNA of capitalism: the idea that the world has no limits. She was saying that there is no such thing as consequences

This is the most comforting and dangerous lie that there is: the lie that perpetual, unending growth is possible on our finite planet.

There is just an absolute refusal to look at how bad it is. Washington would prefer to throw trillions of dollars into a black hole rather than find out how deep the hole actually is. That's how willful the desire is not to know.

It's appropriate that we call this a "bailout." Financial markets are being bailed out to keep the ship of finance capitalism from sinking, but what is being scooped out is not water. It's people. It's people who are being thrown overboard in the name of "stabilization." The result will be a vessel that is leaner and meaner. Much meaner. Because great inequality-the super rich living side by side with the economically desperate-requires a hardening of the hearts. We need to believe ourselves superior to those who are excluded in order to get through the day. So this is the system that is being saved: the same old one, only meaner.

(thanx Mel)