Status Updates From Capitalism: A Ghost Story

well this is eye opening in a truly horrifying way

“Do we need weapons to fight wats? Or do we need wars to create a market for weapons? After all, the economies of Europe, the United States, and Israel depend hugely on their weapons industry. It is the only thing they haven’t outsourced to China. “

"Capitalism's real 'gravediggers' may end up being its own delusional cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises - War and Shopping - simply will not work."

"Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create a market for weapons? After all, the economies of Europe, the United States and Israel depend hugely on their weapons industry. It's the one thing they haven't outsourced to China."

"Funding has fragmented solidarity in ways that repression never could."

"Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with Bill Gate's obsession with digital databases, numerical targets, and 'scorecards of progress' as though it were a lack of information that is the cause of world hunger, and not colonialism, dept, and skewed profit-oriented corporate policy."