BM:
: Ok, suppose for a minute that will happen. Who will know? The newspapers can't spread the word (no paper, no power, no workers to run the presses), TV stations can't (no reporters, no editors, no transmitters, no power [electricity], you won't be able to buy anything because all the stores and banks will be closed (no money), the world ceases to work, people begin to die needlessly (no doctors), etc....: Nice plan.
EC:
Bob, you make a couple of assumptions that are indicative of your corporate upbringing. Here are but a few:
Fallacy # 1) that no one would know about the general strike because no newspapers would be describing it.
Guess what? People would know about it IN ADVANCE or they couldn't participate in it! The corporate newspapers would not tell the truth about it anyway, and they would certainly TRY to put out disinformation with scab labor and neckties running the machines.
Fallacy # 2) We are dependent on corporate TV reporters and editors.
54 commercial television channels already TELL YOU NOTHING that is important. If you really want truth and accuracy in reporting, you should avoid the plague of plastic-haired carbon copy corporate boys 'n' girls who smile at you from their sponsors studios.
Fallacy # 3) We are dependant on electricity.
Elecricity in the home is a relatively new phenomenon, and one most non-affluent people of the planet DO NOT HAVE anyway, just like TV and plastic reporters telling them how to think.
Fallacy # 4) We wont be able to buy anything because stores and banks are closed.
Barter, trade, sharing, gardening, co-operatives and reclaiming the stockpiled food (that rightly belongs to ALL) are but a few alternatives to the food-for-profit system that we are bound into now. To say we cannot find alternatives is to fully accept the chains of dependancy.
Fallacy # 5) People will needlessly die because doctors will not work.
If this is the case, if we can truly have NO HEALING without profit, then we MUST change this system immediately. When you remove the profit motive, a doctor will become a healer. And who needs all these specialist plastic surgeons and liposuctionists who fill up the 'medical' field anyway?
Fallacy # 6) We, as a united people, are incapable of solving our problems and creating solutions WITHOUT full dependancy on the people and institutions of Fallacies 1-5.
This last one is the doosey. You fully accept the silly notion that the profiteers of every institution are somehow responsible for providing for us, instead of realizing that WE ARE PROVIDING FOR THEM.
Let's put them back to work. Organize and fire your boss!
Mike, The Everett Citizen
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