We’ve seen the power of corporate greed and deceit, we’ve seen the lethal consequences of it, in the poisoned environment all around us, in the dying sky above us, in the ravaged earth beneath our feet. We’ve seen the destruction it unleashes, the fracking and mountaintop mining, the ozone depletion and carbon emissions, the species extinction and polar cap melting, the acid in the rain and the death of the oceans.
But all is well. The Greed Machine of the Oligarchy only needs a few minor adjustments. That’s what the corporate politicians have concluded, that’s what they always conclude. The lights of democracy are going out, jobs are disappearing, fascism is pounding at the door and all the clocks are striking thirteen, but it’s nothing a few more free trade agreements can’t fix.
Edith Wharton . . .
Everything seemed strange, ominous and unreal, like the yellow glare that precedes a storm. There were moments when I felt as if I had died, and woken up in an unknown world. And so I had.
Welcome to America, Edith.