Comment on The Global Gang Running the World and Ruining Our Lives by Anthony Judge

Published 10 months ago
Source: off-guardian.org

I do appreciate the focus — “bad” people in power running the world. But is everyone else as innocent, uncomplicit and “good” as the argument implies? Whose actions empowered Gates, Bezos, Musk, etc through effectively “voting” for them (or investing in them) through their unquestionable consumption preferences? Of course it is great to have bad people arond to be blamed for everything — to avoid consideration of our own rather relative “goodness”. And, sad to say, the good guys dont seem to have a Plan B on which they can agree — other than to ensure that the Plan A of the bad people gets stopped. Of course this argument is itself quite unacceptable to good people. Is it the good gys who are bad, and the bad guys who are innocently doing their exploitative thing — exploiting whatever they can?