I hadn't spotted the adoption of Justice in the corporate marketing lexicon as a way of becoming government itself. Nor the blatant demand for subsidies and insurance against poor business decisions.
I have to admire the corporate world for its creativity in finding new ways to transfer wealth to itself from the rest of us, whether or not we want what it's selling.
One thing that I would say about Lloyd's bank, is that it can hardly justify the term " High Street Bank", its been disappearing from our high streets fir years, perhaps this is a part of them reducing their carbon footprint, without concern for staff or customers, one reason why I've moved to the Nationwide Bank.
Lloyds have also been fined for "ripping off" dome small businesses.
Nov 27, 2023·edited Nov 27, 2023Liked by David McGrogan
Appreciate reading someone from the conservative side of the political spectrum calling out Naomi Klein. Of course, the other thing Ms Klein has been engaged with recently has been cyberstalking another academic who happens to share her first name then mercilessly attacking her in a book-length diatribe for that most unforgivable of sins: opposing the outrageous behaviour of governments and pharmaceutical companies during the Nonsense.
Sanity is in short supply these days, which is why I appreciate your writing, David.
Yes, nowadays she basically runs cover for the establishment - which must cause her quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. It's sad, because No Logo is a great polemic and had a big influence on me as a teeenager.
"But that’s where philanthropists, retail investors or government support [emphasis added] can play a role".
When you think it through, all those categories are just fancy names for the people who always pay for others to get rich: the mug punters, you and me. Although "philanthropists" tend to be those who "love humanity" (in the form of themselves).
"...apparently it’s supposed to happen through things like ‘new economic models’ and ‘new metrics’".
Whenever I see something like that, I always remember Homer Simpson gleefully asking, "Doughnuts - is there anything they can't do?"
Apparently models and metrics are like that. At any rate, in the minds of uneducated pointy-haired business people who have not understanding of either.
Yes, and as an old-school GP once told me many years ago, when he couldn't diagnose what the problem was - "it will either get worse, or it will get better."
Isn't this sickly convergence of government/politics and business one definition of fascism? From which the masses are diverted by dissent being noisily labelled 'fascism'. Although I'm sure millions of us do in fact see it, we are coralled into 'consent' by the farce of elections - meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I know if I wrote to Lloyds or any other corporation about the green nonsense I would get some word salad back justifying their actions. It’s humiliating, the green sponge just absorbs all the criticism but no one seems to be able to wring it out. Maybe the humiliation is the point?
I wouldn't risk it. If you let any of your reasonable scepticism show, you might find yourself "debanked". Like a skunk under the garden shed, they are best left strictly alone.
"We can in fact have all of our cakes and eat them; we can transition away from using fossil fuels and get equality and get rapid economic development as well. In fact, the implication often goes, the three things are necessarily mutually reinforcing".
That conjures up a vision of the old-time snake-oil salesman spellbinding the assembled hicks with the many and various benefits of his "miracle medicine" - most likely thrown together from turpentine, opium and gin. By the same kind of miracle - never to be questioned, as that would be questioning the wonderful gifts of Providence - those drafts were supposed to cure everything from bedsores and boredom to ruptures and footrot.
I haven't forgotten the events of 2008 and never shall: corporate bailouts, collateralised debt obligations,Fred the Shred, Osborne's punitive austerity measures: it seemed that Gordon Gecko was running the show at HM Treasury.
Now we have the gruesome, infuriating Greenwash, eagerly peddled by the parasites infesting our corporate/public sectors; intended to bamboozle a disaffected public.
A corporate/woke dictatorship awaits, unless we can find the wherewithal to see off the generously financed apparatchiks.
And now abideth these three; rulers, institutions, persons; and the greatest of these, are persons. Or should be; for we are the ones with souls. It took us a long time to realize it, but the others are mere constructs to help us flourish. In fairness, they have done that. But since the Great War some of the others have grown too strong and become corrupt - acting in their own interest and not ours. As McGilchrist might put it, Emissaries allying with the Master, to form a SuperMaster (taskmaster?). Allied against us. We (our souls) will surely suffer if this is not reversed. There is little sign of the danger being well understood, and of course effective action is unlikely until it is. The road will be long and winding, for it will involve a fundamental reappraisal of the most useful and benevolent of the institutions: ownership. We persons need to engage in a little creative allyship of our own.
I hadn't spotted the adoption of Justice in the corporate marketing lexicon as a way of becoming government itself. Nor the blatant demand for subsidies and insurance against poor business decisions.
I have to admire the corporate world for its creativity in finding new ways to transfer wealth to itself from the rest of us, whether or not we want what it's selling.
One thing that I would say about Lloyd's bank, is that it can hardly justify the term " High Street Bank", its been disappearing from our high streets fir years, perhaps this is a part of them reducing their carbon footprint, without concern for staff or customers, one reason why I've moved to the Nationwide Bank.
Lloyds have also been fined for "ripping off" dome small businesses.
Appreciate reading someone from the conservative side of the political spectrum calling out Naomi Klein. Of course, the other thing Ms Klein has been engaged with recently has been cyberstalking another academic who happens to share her first name then mercilessly attacking her in a book-length diatribe for that most unforgivable of sins: opposing the outrageous behaviour of governments and pharmaceutical companies during the Nonsense.
Sanity is in short supply these days, which is why I appreciate your writing, David.
Yes, nowadays she basically runs cover for the establishment - which must cause her quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. It's sad, because No Logo is a great polemic and had a big influence on me as a teeenager.
This is a story I've heard now from a great many people, alas. Fascinating how diverse the readership of No Logo was.
"But that’s where philanthropists, retail investors or government support [emphasis added] can play a role".
When you think it through, all those categories are just fancy names for the people who always pay for others to get rich: the mug punters, you and me. Although "philanthropists" tend to be those who "love humanity" (in the form of themselves).
"...apparently it’s supposed to happen through things like ‘new economic models’ and ‘new metrics’".
Whenever I see something like that, I always remember Homer Simpson gleefully asking, "Doughnuts - is there anything they can't do?"
Apparently models and metrics are like that. At any rate, in the minds of uneducated pointy-haired business people who have not understanding of either.
Yes, and as an old-school GP once told me many years ago, when he couldn't diagnose what the problem was - "it will either get worse, or it will get better."
Isn't this sickly convergence of government/politics and business one definition of fascism? From which the masses are diverted by dissent being noisily labelled 'fascism'. Although I'm sure millions of us do in fact see it, we are coralled into 'consent' by the farce of elections - meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I know if I wrote to Lloyds or any other corporation about the green nonsense I would get some word salad back justifying their actions. It’s humiliating, the green sponge just absorbs all the criticism but no one seems to be able to wring it out. Maybe the humiliation is the point?
I wouldn't risk it. If you let any of your reasonable scepticism show, you might find yourself "debanked". Like a skunk under the garden shed, they are best left strictly alone.
"We can in fact have all of our cakes and eat them; we can transition away from using fossil fuels and get equality and get rapid economic development as well. In fact, the implication often goes, the three things are necessarily mutually reinforcing".
That conjures up a vision of the old-time snake-oil salesman spellbinding the assembled hicks with the many and various benefits of his "miracle medicine" - most likely thrown together from turpentine, opium and gin. By the same kind of miracle - never to be questioned, as that would be questioning the wonderful gifts of Providence - those drafts were supposed to cure everything from bedsores and boredom to ruptures and footrot.
Magical thinking will ruin us,if these zealots persist with their 2+2=3 nonsense
I haven't forgotten the events of 2008 and never shall: corporate bailouts, collateralised debt obligations,Fred the Shred, Osborne's punitive austerity measures: it seemed that Gordon Gecko was running the show at HM Treasury.
Now we have the gruesome, infuriating Greenwash, eagerly peddled by the parasites infesting our corporate/public sectors; intended to bamboozle a disaffected public.
A corporate/woke dictatorship awaits, unless we can find the wherewithal to see off the generously financed apparatchiks.
https://www.bullshitgenerator.com/
And now abideth these three; rulers, institutions, persons; and the greatest of these, are persons. Or should be; for we are the ones with souls. It took us a long time to realize it, but the others are mere constructs to help us flourish. In fairness, they have done that. But since the Great War some of the others have grown too strong and become corrupt - acting in their own interest and not ours. As McGilchrist might put it, Emissaries allying with the Master, to form a SuperMaster (taskmaster?). Allied against us. We (our souls) will surely suffer if this is not reversed. There is little sign of the danger being well understood, and of course effective action is unlikely until it is. The road will be long and winding, for it will involve a fundamental reappraisal of the most useful and benevolent of the institutions: ownership. We persons need to engage in a little creative allyship of our own.