"The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich."
George Monbiot correctly identifies the fundamental fact, as to why we are not living in true democracies.
If you have a tiny, self-interested clique, that controls and manipulates all mass communication, they are effectively controlling the thinking and awareness of people. All very rich people have far more in common, than they have with 99% of humanity. George Soros has far more in common with Elon Musk, than both of them have with 99% of humanity.
As George points out, addressing the climate crisis is relatively straight forward. When Greta Thunberg was asked, early on in her school strike for climate, why didn't she become a climate scientist, and solve the climate crisis, she intelligently responded, that the solution to the climate crisis was known over 30 years ago.
The only reason the known solutions have not been applied, is because it is not in the vested and personal interests of the richest people in the world, to implement those solutions. They only want techno-fixes, which allows them to have their cake and eat it.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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George Monbiot correctly identifies the fundamental fact, as to why we are not living in true democracies.
If you have a tiny, self-interested clique, that controls and manipulates all mass communication, they are effectively controlling the thinking and awareness of people. All very rich people have far more in common, than they have with 99% of humanity. George Soros has far more in common with Elon Musk, than both of them have with 99% of humanity.
As George points out, addressing the climate crisis is relatively straight forward. When Greta Thunberg was asked, early on in her school strike for climate, why didn't she become a climate scientist, and solve the climate crisis, she intelligently responded, that the solution to the climate crisis was known over 30 years ago.
The only reason the known solutions have not been applied, is because it is not in the vested and personal interests of the richest people in the world, to implement those solutions. They only want techno-fixes, which allows them to have their cake and eat it.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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The top 1% of the richest, especially the top 0.1%, are super-emitters, who individually have greater emissions, than the bottom 66% of humanity. Therefore, they self-evidently have a personal vested interest, in not seeing personal emissions restricted.
That is obvious to anyone, not suffering billionaire brain syndrome, or billionaire sycophancy.
It follows, that as a demographic, the very rich, have got a common interest, in maintaining their high emissions lifestyles. In other words, that this demographic, effectively controls everything, in a manipulative way, the thinking and mass communication of 99% of humanity, who don't have their interests, it is a very dangerous and anti-democratic situation. By its very nature, no one in the bottom 99% has the personal emissions of someone in the top 1%.
The top 1%, has for this very reason, managed to convince most people, that it is humanity driving the climate crisis, not the top 1% (really the top 0.1%). Because they control all mass communication, and so what people think.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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That is obvious to anyone, not suffering billionaire brain syndrome, or billionaire sycophancy.
It follows, that as a demographic, the very rich, have got a common interest, in maintaining their high emissions lifestyles. In other words, that this demographic, effectively controls everything, in a manipulative way, the thinking and mass communication of 99% of humanity, who don't have their interests, it is a very dangerous and anti-democratic situation. By its very nature, no one in the bottom 99% has the personal emissions of someone in the top 1%.
The top 1%, has for this very reason, managed to convince most people, that it is humanity driving the climate crisis, not the top 1% (really the top 0.1%). Because they control all mass communication, and so what people think.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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I mentioned, billionaire sycophants. If I open any of these observations up, for anyone to comment, I will have a pile on from extreme right wing, mindless automaton's, brainwashed by billionaire propaganda, calling me a retard, a commie etc. They are just parroting what they are conditioned to say, and can't think for themselves. If I engage with any of them, they can't put up any sort of coherent argument. It's just a stream of clichés, false assertions, ad homs, logical fallacies and just plain nonsense.
I've repeatedly explained that I don't adhere to any ideology, communism or otherwise. My commentary is purely from the perspective, of long term sustainability, and our civilization, not heading towards collapse. There is simply no room for billionaires in world of 8 billion people, living on a finite planet, with finite resources. My commentary, is not derived from Marxism or communism.
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I've repeatedly explained that I don't adhere to any ideology, communism or otherwise. My commentary is purely from the perspective, of long term sustainability, and our civilization, not heading towards collapse. There is simply no room for billionaires in world of 8 billion people, living on a finite planet, with finite resources. My commentary, is not derived from Marxism or communism.
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To conclude, it is a self-evidence fact, that this economic elite, the top 1%, especially the top 0.1%, have a common agenda and outlook, they don't share with 99% of humanity. Hence, their obsession, with using their control over mass communication, to use propaganda, to manipulate a proportion of the 99%, who don't think for themselves, that they have a common interest with the rest of humanity, and that anyone criticising billionaires, is a communist.
If anyone thinks that billionaires, and politicians in their pocket, have your interests at heart, and are looking out for you, then they are not being very realistic. Billionaires and the other very rich have got a lot in common, and very little in common with the 99%. When was the last time you bumped into a billionaire, when out socialising? They only socialize in highly protected, social circles, and plebs from the 99% are not welcome, unless they are one of the menial hired help, serving them.
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If anyone thinks that billionaires, and politicians in their pocket, have your interests at heart, and are looking out for you, then they are not being very realistic. Billionaires and the other very rich have got a lot in common, and very little in common with the 99%. When was the last time you bumped into a billionaire, when out socialising? They only socialize in highly protected, social circles, and plebs from the 99% are not welcome, unless they are one of the menial hired help, serving them.
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