If you thought you’d seen it all, you’ve seen nothing until you see Khiara Bridges make a fool of herself. Who is Khiara Bridges? Difficult though it is to believe, she is a professor of law at Berkeley Law School. Although not unattractive, when she appeared before a Senate committee last week to be questioned […]
There are no nations. There are no peoples … There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.
— Network (1976)
A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization and an inhabitable Earth. There is no way for energy and resource use, along with all the strife, warfare, and poverty that comes along with it, to continue under the business as usual model that contemporary Western nations operate under.
