“Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.” StatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryCitizensProjectsResourcesSafetyBankruptcyGrandioseHealth And SafetyEconomic Resources Author:Chalmers Johnson
“the society which projects and undertakes the technological transformation of nature alters the base of domination by gradually replacing personal dependence (of the slave on the master, the serf on the lord of the manor, the lord on the donor of the fief, etc.) with dependence on the "objective order of things" (on economic laws, the market etc.).” LawOrderLordEconomicMastersProjectsTransformationSlaveObjectivesEtcTechnologicalDependenceDominationDonorsSerfs Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending cycle of production for the sake of consumption. The modern concept of "built-in obsolescence" makes this clear. The cycle of production and consumption has to be kept going, and the work of the artist or craftsman who aims to create something enduring becomes marginal to the economic order.” HumansArtistOrderClearEconomicModernEffectsActivityProjectsEnlightenmentConceptsBuiltLaborAimEndureSakeProductionsPostsCyclesConsumptionConsumerismHuman SocietyOverconsumptionHuman ActivityUnendingCraftsmanObsolescenceEconomic Order Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.” GovernmentJobsProcessEconomicPoliticianActivityProjectsInvestingObjectivesConsumersProductivePrivate SectorBureaucrats Author:Sheldon Richman
“I have a broad view that we have to try and get to "yes" on projects. On economic projects anybody can say no. My child can say no. But I think the hard thing to do is to figure out how you get to "yes" and you protect the environment.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardViewsEnvironmentEconomicFiguresProtectProjectsMy ChildrenThings To DoBroadsHard ThingsProtect The Environment Author:Christy Clark
“I think it's very important to remember that so much of the work that gets done between countries is not done at the level of presidents, but is done within various agencies, whether it's law enforcement or economic ministries. And when they establish relationships and systems of communications and shared projects and shared visions, those structures continue even after any particular president is gone. It builds trust and understanding between countries that are critically important.” ThinkingImportantCountryDoneRememberLawUnderstandingPresidentLevelsVisionGoneEconomicParticularCommunicationProjectsStructureVariousAgencyMinistryLaw EnforcementEnforcementShared Vision Author:Barack Obama