Depressing, Carl, but well said.
Penny
On 5/6/20, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Four years ago, who would have thought there could be a more dangerous
threat to democracy than Donald Trump? Then along came COVID-19. It
was the battle of the Virus with a single mindedness versus the
President with no mind at all.
We are leaderless at a time when we truly need leadership.
By the time our children are grandparents their world will seem like
something out of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. I never accepted the
idea that our society could ever be like the world of Star Wars, but
it looks like I was wrong. Think of a future where we still have
princesses, alongside interstellar travel and wars between planets.
Very likely Human extinction would be the preferred choice.
Carl Jarvis
On 5/6/20, miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Democracy at Work is the name of Richard Wolff's organization. Each week
now, on Loud and Clear, Richard Wolff gets a half hour to analyze the
economic news of the week. I just listened to the podcast from last
night's
broadcast and I found what he had to say about where we are and what will
most probably happen next in terms of our economic situation, to be truly
devastating: small businesses dying and being taken over by huge
corporations, the end of most stores with all shopping being done on line
(I've heard this before with a description of the death of shopping
malls),
and on and on. In another segment of the podcast, I heard the theory that
this pandemic may be with us for 36 months or forever with areas of
disease
popping up in various areas. I've also heard that there are possibly two
different strains, one more contagious than the other. Richard Wolff
reminded us that we used to have an "excess profits" law which did not
permit any business to make excess profits during a war or catastrophe.
That
law is gone.
Miriam
