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I Don’t Believe What You Believe

Posted on 11/12/2011 by admin

I was listening to Noam Chomsky (well someone has to) about how the major companies in the US and around the world who have a vested interest have tried to make out that climate change is a liberal hoax. Besides the fact that he states they have largely been successful the first thing I thought about was Putin in Russia blaming the terrorist outrage that killed hundreds of children as vaguely ‘inspired by Western interests’. In order apparently to divert attention away from the fact that the soldiers in the army fired first.

It is amazing to me that we lie like this but even more, when we lie about something that is actually dangerous, like climate change, and we know it’s a lie what are we doing? Chomsky says the leaders of the companies have an institutional way of thinking and that means making sure nothing happens that adversely effects short-term profits. Isn’t that kind of lying what caused the banking crisis?

We are dangerously close to the general public revolting round the world against those who have vested interests in the financial system because they are consistently sacrificing honesty and the rest of their population for personal wealth. Yes I know they have always done so – but not to highly educated and well-informed masses. The change that Marx once predicated in industrialized society might well be closer than people think.

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