leftist slogans together into a moral plan

Joseph Friendly friendly at pipeline.com
Sat Jun 26 08:26:49 PDT 1999


As a lurker who rarely posts, I thought the recent discussion about how the left might respond to the public's interest in moral values was an appropriate time to point to my plan for peaceful, but total revolution at http://www.peacefulrevolution.org/ which offers some nuance in rhetoric that might appeal to the public by attacking commercialism as inherently lacking in morality and therefore an unworthy mentality to control our culture and our corporations generally.

A central feature of the plan is my arguing we take over the giant corporations because external control by government of their activities is not effective enough to contrain them to be in the public interest, and what is needed is people "at the center of the corporate decision-making process" truly dedicated to people.

It is like taking the idea of investing our social security in the stock market further than the Right might dream, buying the whole thing out, on the cheap, real cheap.

Doug has indicated here and there a distaste for oversimplification and this effort of mine is indeed an effort at simplification, but, of course, I argue not overly.

I hope the lbo-list can offer some helpful suggestions for improvment. As websites go it is but an early script for a fullblown site with lots of buttons for interactivity, push here if you want to know why we need a revolution, push here for what it will be like after the revolution, etc.

Unfortunately, from the point of view of lbo proclivities, included in the plan is an argument for the significance of birthdate, which, of course, will be a bit much, but I include it because I believe I have discovered that birthdate is far too important to leave to the archaic premises of astrology and provides us what with amounts to a solar compass for things human: Birthdate amounts to phase angle of the giant annual solar energy sinusoid that we best center upon to solve the so-called mystery of human nature. Our different points of view can be usefully sorted according to birthday because our different ways of organizing the human senses profoundly depend physiologically upon this phase difference.

Try to see it as a kind of Copernican urging to center upon the sun in a new way, to understand how the sun fits into the human struggle for englightenment. Like Mendeleyev's Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, the idea here is to sort the spectrum of human variety along a circle, because the circle is an appropriate representation for the biological causes involved, the phase of the single leading force in life, the sun.

Again, if you can't stomach the birthdate stuff, try to ignore it and consider the rest of this ambitious plan to offer an actual alternative, a "what to put in its place." It seems there is nothing else out there that actually manages to spell out an entire plan so we can see how the slogans can all fit together



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