Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Todd Archer wrote:
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> >What do you mean by political clarity? What will be made clear?
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> We shouldn't entertain any illusions that Wall Street is "fair," or
> could ever be made "fair."
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I agree the trial is intended to maintain illusions -- but not the illusions of the "masses"; it is intended to maintain the illusions of the "insiders" themselves that their world is a just one. Crooks do need to believe they are just. And of course "they" will go on believing, regardless of the trial's outcome. I think it is worth considering that almost _all_ ruling-class propaganda is meant primarily to cheer the ruling class and make it feel good, not to fool the "masses," who are fooled by the nature of daily experience in capitalist society and the need to survive individually under that daily reality. Any effect from "propaganda" or "culture" is secondary.
Who exactly is the "we" of your post anyhow?
Carrol