Comments on: Bob Zoellick’s A Two-Bit Bore… http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/bob-zoellicks-a-two-bit-bore/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:27:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lila Rajiva http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/bob-zoellicks-a-two-bit-bore/#comment-42910 Lila Rajiva Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:56:31 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=7529#comment-42910 Psychopathy - you never said a truer word My own feeling is that only psychopathic individuals get to the top these days...this goes against the mythology of success.. But I see it constantly. I am not talking so much about small businessmen and average successful entrepreneurs - who get unfairly lumped into this category.. I am talking about the very richest - with political connections The CIA....or the SEC....or similar groups. They are a mafia that's killing this country... Psychopathy – you never said a truer word
My own feeling is that only psychopathic individuals get to the top these days…this goes against the mythology of success..
But I see it constantly. I am not talking so much about small businessmen and average successful entrepreneurs – who get unfairly lumped into this category..

I am talking about the very richest – with political connections
The CIA….or the SEC….or similar groups.
They are a mafia that’s killing this country…

]]> By: Mulga Mumblebrain http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/bob-zoellicks-a-two-bit-bore/#comment-42907 Mulga Mumblebrain Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:31:09 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=7529#comment-42907 The ability of tiny cliques to take control in capitalist economies is deeply disturbing. A little liberating, also. When you read the resumes of the top ten thousand or so global cappi who run the mafia operation known colloquially as the 'Free Market', the character traits that reveal themselves are instructive. There is gargantuan, indeed, literally insatiable greed. Any one of these palookas would relish controlling ALL the world's wealth, if they could manage it somehow. For the moment they must make do with the situation where the several hundred billionaires control more wealth than the bottom half, or three billion human beings. Then there is reflex mendacity, dissembling and hypocrisy, with a few honourable, and some arrogant, exceptions, especially regarding the true nature of the system that immiserates so many to enrich so few. Total indifference to the fate of others, with again a few honourable exceptions, and many fraudulent, 'philanthropic for the photo-opportunity' phoneys, in Darfur, but never, ever, Gaza. And indifference's twin, lack of empathy, even, one suspects, for themselves. Let's be frank. This constellation of symptoms is the operating manual for the psychopath. We have created, by our stupidity, lack of resolve and ready acceptance of life-long brainwashing, a society ruled by and for crazies, whose only use for us as is consumers, or industrial or military cannon-fodder. Latterly we added being dupes for fraudulent, rigged 'risk-taking' as the highest calling in life. Playing the patsy, compulsorily, more or less. The callous, but seemingly insane, total indifference to ecological collapse is also easily explained by this theory of society. Our Masters could not give a stuff what happens to the planet after their ego goes out. When the rulers are facing calamity face on, they may finally act, but I suspect that they will opt for a Malthusian culling, rather than reduce their limitless rapacity and cupidity. Whenever, if ever, the mass of people finally wake from their torpor and see what is happening to our world and species, perhaps something will happen to save us, but can one really imagine a global 'People Power' revolt being allowed to succeed, unhindered. Not a snowball's chance in Hell. Which come to think of it, our world now resembles, which makes our robopathic masters all little Satans, save for the Really Great Ones. The ability of tiny cliques to take control in capitalist economies is deeply disturbing. A little liberating, also. When you read the resumes of the top ten thousand or so global cappi who run the mafia operation known colloquially as the ‘Free Market’, the character traits that reveal themselves are instructive. There is gargantuan, indeed, literally insatiable greed. Any one of these palookas would relish controlling ALL the world’s wealth, if they could manage it somehow. For the moment they must make do with the situation where the several hundred billionaires control more wealth than the bottom half, or three billion human beings. Then there is reflex mendacity, dissembling and hypocrisy, with a few honourable, and some arrogant, exceptions, especially regarding the true nature of the system that immiserates so many to enrich so few. Total indifference to the fate of others, with again a few honourable exceptions, and many fraudulent, ‘philanthropic for the photo-opportunity’ phoneys, in Darfur, but never, ever, Gaza. And indifference’s twin, lack of empathy, even, one suspects, for themselves. Let’s be frank. This constellation of symptoms is the operating manual for the psychopath. We have created, by our stupidity, lack of resolve and ready acceptance of life-long brainwashing, a society ruled by and for crazies, whose only use for us as is consumers, or industrial or military cannon-fodder. Latterly we added being dupes for fraudulent, rigged ‘risk-taking’ as the highest calling in life. Playing the patsy, compulsorily, more or less. The callous, but seemingly insane, total indifference to ecological collapse is also easily explained by this theory of society. Our Masters could not give a stuff what happens to the planet after their ego goes out. When the rulers are facing calamity face on, they may finally act, but I suspect that they will opt for a Malthusian culling, rather than reduce their limitless rapacity and cupidity. Whenever, if ever, the mass of people finally wake from their torpor and see what is happening to our world and species, perhaps something will happen to save us, but can one really imagine a global ‘People Power’ revolt being allowed to succeed, unhindered. Not a snowball’s chance in Hell. Which come to think of it, our world now resembles, which makes our robopathic masters all little Satans, save for the Really Great Ones.

]]> By: mary http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/04/bob-zoellicks-a-two-bit-bore/#comment-42471 mary Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:42:29 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=7529#comment-42471 Considering how weedy and nerdy he looks, he has certainly been very clever in placing himself in powerful institutions. One glance at his Wikipedia biog page gives his contacts with all the usual suspects in the blue hyperlinks. What's his secret? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zoellick I spotted him on TV glad-handing acquaintances at the ridiculous G20 circus just finished in London and now moved on to mainland Europe where Obama is rounding up his 'allies' to provide more cannon fodder for his AfPak war. Thanks for the article Lila. Considering how weedy and nerdy he looks, he has certainly been very clever in placing himself in powerful institutions. One glance at his Wikipedia biog page gives his contacts with all the usual suspects in the blue hyperlinks. What’s his secret?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zoellick

I spotted him on TV glad-handing acquaintances at the ridiculous G20 circus just finished in London and now moved on to mainland Europe where Obama is rounding up his ‘allies’ to provide more cannon fodder for his AfPak war.

Thanks for the article Lila.

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