Tinyrevolution.com's screed for the day

[truedelphi]

I go to their website abt three times a week to read whatever is their latest.

Today the main OP features such stunning stats as these:

1) Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are now global corporations; only 49 are countries.
2) The combined sales of the world's Top 200 corporations are far greater than a quarter of the world's economic activity.
3)The Top 200 corporations' combined sales are bigger than the combined economies of all countries minus the biggest 9; that is they surpass the combined economies of 182 countries.
4) The Top 200 have almost twice the economic clout of the poorest four-fifths of humanity.

Just in case any of you wanted to be able to source the stats on the Big Corporations. and their connection to the end of our democracy.

[glinda]

1. K&R n/t

[Vidar]

2. K&R.

[jotsy]

3. Staggering figures that frighten me.

What's the way to turn the tide? I'm a parent so I want no blood shed, but I'm a parent who refuses to raise caring and competent people to see them become slaves.

K n R

[truedelphi]

4. Hi Jotsy -

I have no idea what the solution is.

Ten years ago I would have said that supporting small and/or local businesses would make a big difference. But since banks are not lending to local small businesses, I have no idea of what the future holds.

I also think the public and mainstream private schools are a great deal of the problem - if I had my life to do over, I would home school, even if it meant I taught the lessons from the back seat of a van. A big part of the problem is age-ism. And what promotes age-ism more than sticking kids in clasrooms with other kids where the main criteria is their age?

It does seem that those who are older and have some wisdom are isolated from everyone else. In a techie world, all that counts is knowing the latest gadgets and the latest bot code, rather than knowing things of real substance. (Although I may be saying this with a certain sense of bitterness, I was once one of the few who knew things about personal computers and how to run data entry programs. I know the feeling of being hip to the "latest" and being sought out. But I knew even then that our society did not value real wisdom.)

People who don't home school need to present actual lessons for their kids. About the matters that are contained in a film whose name we must not mention here on DU. (Begins with the letter "Z" if that is any help.) Noam Chomsky and his books and vids are another starting point. Carl Jung is another great one.

[jotsy]

5. I believe I may have caught that documentary,

I understand it is available free online, with addendum's I have yet to catch.

To see the citizenry prevail in this conflict requires a lot and quickly, I think. The scales of justice are now made of means which I see as fixed with one overweighted side firmly at the bottom and the other dangling, fixedly vulnerable. A breathtaking and challenging era to be a part of, yet I know as a people we possess the capacity to find a way to continue as a freer public than the PTB intends to offer.

Thanks for the reading list.