I actually dont like this, and I'm really surprised to say that!
It's a bit simplistic compared to the Adam Curtis work, and it seems underdone. Too dispassionate? Maybe I need another viewing.
It's disappointing because everytime I've seen Naomi go head to head against the Republicant talking heads I am always impressed.
On 9/7/07, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >From: Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org>
> >
> >Carl Remick wrote:
> > > [Just returned from an unusually interesting visit to the dentist --
> > > interesting because it gave me an opportunity to peruse Business
> Week's
> > > cover story, Sept. 3, on the subprime crisis, which openly ridiculed
> > > Wall Street's financial engineering innovations of the last 25 years.
> > > The magazine cover art depicts an expensively attired Wall St. exec
> > > wearing a red clown's nose. Most interesting of all was a cover story
> > > sidebar article (see below) discussing Middle America's mood these
> days
> > > -- i.e., DEEP alienation. It's pretty eye-popping to see a Kansan
> > > (other than Chuck, of course) saying: "I think we need a revolution
> in
> > > this country." If the left doesn't seize the moment, it really
> deserves
> > > to be in history's dustbin.]
> >
> >Thanks for sharing this, Carl, and thanks for mentioning me.
>
> Don't mention it :) Here's another must-read article -- on *global*
> alienation from the US economic model -- that I just saw cited at a more
> likely source for the subversive POV than Bizweek, i.e., the Marxism list
> (tip of the hat to Louis P.): <
> http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_03/846>
>
> Carl
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