It needs structures and an ecosystem of grass roots organisations to make taking any kind of stand meaningful.
Leaving aside the existential core of the snarling I was doing, these are good points. And no, I'm mocking the M.A.D RAND ethos and have no desire for the end times. (Culture is turning into Steam). Quite the opposite.
They're also why I (earlier, up thread) posited that biocide had been applied to such grass-root efforts quite ruthlessly over the last 40 years or so.
Since we're down here in the mire, there's clearly (at least) six power strata in play in these kinds of things (to save everyone Derrida, I'll keep them simple):
Money / Politics
Military / Industry
Black / Grey networks (organized crime and extra-legal economic activity)
Spooks / Ghosts / Tribbles (3 letters)
Society / Law / Order
???? / ???? [Edited - not allowed]
The question is how these interact. There was a time when uncodified 'rules' kept these separate. Think about Yakuza, Banks only being Banks (pre-IMF land), Class strata and so on. It's not a over-exaggeration to suggest that bringing one set of rules into other planes leads to issues.
With the TTIP and so on we're seeing the conflation of these branches.
As for wolves. Wolves get a bad name, all that alpha-beta nonsense, bad science. Wolf packs have a co-operative system, based on mating pairs.
Someone once pointed out that the bottom of the Pyramid isn't where it's usually portrayed btw. Most people complaining about it are in the top third.
During a press conference at UN Headquarters today, the Global Goals campaign, founded by filmmaker Richard Curtis, was announced as aiming to make the 17 UN Goals famous and to push for their full implementation worldwide.
Then again: Awesome but terrible. That's a precise. Our soul, if we have one, is no doubt damned.
]]>And, as others have remarked, the linking to endless YouTube videos is simply a time-wasting exercise, is it not?
]]>^^^^^ And below the fold: Incidentally, the phrase was a favourite one of a dead friend, who got pancreatic cancer & kicked it at age 49 ... Anyone who claims there's a loving "god" should be forced to undergo what Frank had, grrr .....
]]>I humbly suggest this is at least as impressive as the Canal of the Pharaohs and still will be in 1000 years.
]]>In short: You either have to learn to live with CatinaDiamond's presence, or cease to read the comment threads.
After all, this is the Internet, and often people are wrong.
]]>In that case, it must be really disappointing to find out we already did your work for you. As the Hobbit said: you have my condolences.
If I remember correctly: I get a choice between letting the world etiolate under our unfeeling behemoth overlords or inviting your lot to flood us all out and drop a new batch of sea monkeys to repopulate the world you remade with Your Sun.
Thanks for the life preserver, but I will wait for the Ice Age while Putin and Trump graft their second heads. Unlike you I was made as a throw away joke by Simon Pegg and I have a terrific pain down the left side of my diodes. I am sure you will have something boring to say while we wait in the parking lot for the next 42 million years, but I won't mind. Why should I mind? Brain the size of a planet and I have to make small talk with Disaster Area's ShipMind.
]]>You don't need a mask You don't need a suit You don't need to hack a computer You don't need an account You don't need a membership You don't need a sign You don't need to riot You don't need anything You just need IDEAS
]]>That is one magnificent wine cellar! Whether it's still in use a thousand years from now or gets rediscovered with a truly mind-boggling collection of old wine, that's a marvelous thing to have hidden underground.
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