Canada's anti-corporate crusader

[Peter K.]

>>[Naomi Klein's] war on modern corporations boils down to a central theme:
as >>companies'
>> marketing budgets become more and more lavish, they maintain profit
margins
>> by farming out manufacturing to sweatshops in the poorest corners of the
>> globe.
>>
>> In so doing, they break with a basic, Henry Ford principle of
20th-century
>> manufacturing: create a mass market by paying workers well enough so they
>> can buy the products they produce. At same time, Western consumers are
the
>> targets of what she calls "Big Brother branding."

Makes me think of that "fascistic" film Fight Club.


>> and has been kicked off a television
>> debate show by an angry conservative writer.

I wish her all the best and will definitely check out her book. I find
Carrol's conspiracy-mongering hilarious, like the FBI or some secret group
picks out opposition figures to elevate. Any evidence for your theory on
Jerry Rubin, Carrol? So I suppose this week the New York Times was dealt
Klein and the Washington Post got Chuck0? I'd think a better strategy would
be to just ignore them. Especially seeing as how we're in such a tinderbox
of a pre-revolutionary situation.

Also, I'm not saying TV is better than word of mouth, but like it or not
we're in the TV age, and for a lot of people, especially the young, TV  -
and film - gives a special validation to most of what appears on them both.
The other day, a friend who's a high school teacher told me how a ton of
kids he taught became interested in Howard Zinn b/c Matt Damon mentioned him
and his book in the movie Good Will Hunting. But then again, maybe Zinn had
been choosen by that mysterious psych-ops organization for special media
elevation and so is - ipso facto - a sell-out.

Peter