One more time- Call it Democracy
"That song
came from the time of neo-conservatism, when governments supported
business at the cost of lives and nobody gave a shit. We have since
moved on to neo-liberalism, when governments support business at the
cost of lives and nobody gives a shit; and I see we're moving on to
neo-feudalism, that's the service economy coming at you. We will all
serve. I'm not quite sure who we're serving. There's a sort of mystery
there; are we serving Bill Gates? I think not, he's too visible.
Somebody else? Maybe you're sitting right here (in the audience). Are
you out there? Fuck off, if you are....And if
you're not, well we missed a grand opportunity to level with each
other."
-- from a live performance at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, 25 March 2000.
Greeks failed. No one can say their courage flagged, but their chosen
leader proved unable to resist, to reject, to tell European Union
leaders and that truly dangerous figure in the German cabinet, Finance
Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, “Enough. Keep your euro. If we are to suffer
we will do so for what we believe in.”
--Patrick L. Smith, July 14, 2015
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