If they really wanted to solve the problems in the schools, they would be talking about things like this, about how our dysfunctional, hypocritical society leads to this kind of violence in the school as naturally as beating a dog will turn it violent. But they can't even acknowledge things like this without blowing the top off the box, which not doing is their prime directive, so they do their best to shuffle things around to try to calm things down when something causing unrest to the indoctrinated masses happens (thier unspoken contract is that in return for the self-lobotomisation and lives of drudgery they at least get some security and the pretense of 'democracy'). But they never will, until they start looking at things honestly.
Don't hold your breath. Rulers with essentially absolute power don't give up easily. You're going to see a lot more cops and ID chips and physical intimidation control before you see anything like talking about the truth.
And that's what Canada looks like today from On Green Island.
Stumble It!
By removing barriers between corporate and government power politicians have created what might better be called global fascism. In this system, major conflicts of interests are acceptable such as corporate CEOs creating the government policies that apply to their own operations (referred to as self-regulation).
Corporate CEOs get to decide how much risk they are willing to take with the health and welfare of their clients while the clients are denied imput. The number one priority in this kind of system is the profitability of the mega-producer or commercial interest.
I believe it would be accurate to refer to this system as corporate statism except that it is practiced on an international basis so that the power of the individual state is undermined through international agreements that are negotiated and implemented on behalf multi-national corporate interests. They go well beyond simple trading relationships to give power to the corporation over the operation of democracy. They actually use the state to destroy the power of the state and the body politic.
Otherwise, I agree. It's fuedalism, lifted from the medieval era into the 21st century, where the new fiefdoms are to be technocratic rather than agrarian.
Isn't it fascinating how this is becoming a real issue in the blogsphere? Interesting times - and I will have a look at your book, thanks! Cheers.
"capitalism breeds gangland wastelands with genetically modified 'reststops' in between"
"capitalism is a system which separates the producers from the means of production, and only admits them to produce at all as and when some speculator sees an immidiate profit in doing so"
and there must be something really desirable in the famous words "from each according to his ability , to each according to his needs" beacuse when asked about it in a survey a great number of Americans thought it was written in their Constitution.
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more on capitalism and violence and war;<br />
<a href="http://freethoughtweekly.blogspot.com/2007/04/capitalism-is-war.html">http://freethoughtweekly.blogspot.com/2007/04/capitalism-is-war.html</a>