Wealth Bondage

Candidia's Utopia - Make it So, Little Man

Posted by Candidia Cruikshanks, CEO of Wealth Bondage

I am a busy executive with better fucking things to do than write an essay for Peter Karoff on "The World We Want." Hey, Minim, get your ass in her. Answer these stupid questions in my name, and make it snappy. No, dummy, get a pencil and your little steno pad.

What is your vision of a better world?

What are the conditions needed to realize it?

What are the obstacles?

Based on your experience, what parts of the vision are realistic and what ideas, strategies and plans can make it so?

Imagine no liberals! Imagine a world without whining! Imagine a world where the best rise to the top and stomp those below - who love it and kiss my boots. Imagine the priests kissing my ass. My name up there as the world's greatest philanthropist: Ms Social Venture herself. Investing in poverty. Giving our inner cities a competitive advantage by driving down wages. Eliminating government subsidies for losers. Privatizing the public parks. Owning the air and water. Wealth Bondage worldwide. Make it so, little man!

And when you finish the memo, I want every fucking employee to sign it. All together now: We love Mistress Candidia. Heaven is to serve her. Wealth Bondage is the world we want. Thank you Mistress for all you do for us.

Now get back to your cubicle.

Letter to Bush Concerning Downing Street Memo

Chastity Powers Reporting for Wealth Bondage

John Conyers is collecting signatures. Meanwhile here is a compilation of US news coverage, not much of it, because America has moved on. I mean come on Gang, lighten up. There is just so gosh darn good in the world, why emphasize the negative?

Upper Class Lefties

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Great interview with Joe Bageant. The saddest true point is that noting good is going to happen as long as the educated left sneers at the working poor.

It can't. Until the progressive left gets out there on the street and recruits every ignorant piece of white trash and person of colour it ain't gonna happen. But here in the US, the so-called left is comfortable being in the catering class of college professors, managers, journalists, school teachers and others required to keep the capitalist system humming, they ain't gonna take any risks. They just don't get it that if they do not love their labouring brothers, beer belly, ignorance, crack habit and all, their ass is grass too. It's only a matter of time. But they simply do not believe these people are their brothers, or even human, for that matter. America is a class system first and foremost.

Has anyone seen Dick's copy of Mallarme around here some place? I just saw it on top of the Lyotard. Maybe it is under the Zizek?

After Globalism

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Paul Kennedy reviews John Ralston Saul's THE COLLAPSE OF GLOBALISM: And the Reinvention of the World. A recent essay on globalism by Saul here. After globalism, the god that failed, what? Nationalism, it appears.

A Liberal with Cojones

Posted by Dick Minim

I highly recommend the new codpiece from Kittens Toyroom. Just because you are a liberal doesn't mean you have to look like one.

Commentalia

Posted by The Happy Tutor

WB gets one or two hits a day from commentalia, Vernaculo's unique blog. Left him a comment, which is only fair, considering.

Joe Bageant: How to Stop Losing

Posted by The Happy Tutor

After 15 years in AL, GA, and TX, I must say I wish more here reached out like Joe Bageant. On the importance of public education he is right, as on the importance of respect for working people, including white, Southern rural Christians. The ones who fight our wars? Do the hard mean work in the service and factory and farm jobs? Been in many a country town, down many a dirt road, making sales calls, with those down on their luck and nowhere else to go but on straight commission. Unless you can scratch out a living the hard way, you have no airs worth putting on. No one can teach another person, or open a mind, starting from contempt. There are Dumpsters all over America. And there is dignity there too.

WIKI Hell

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Shelley via Doc Searls on public WIKIs:

Lesson One learned: wikis updated by the general public only work if there¹s enough people interested in helping to maintain it to offset the spammers, trolls, and script kiddies. In other words, the only viable public wiki is Wikipedia.

Public Action in a Private Place

Posted by The Happy Tutor

Philanthropy is private action in a public space (pdf) - Peter Karoff

Dumpster talk is rehearsal. The stakes are higher in the silence of The World We Want. When Carnival enters the Big House, will someone please, those of you in the red jackets parking cars, work slowly? We want the honored guests to at least get a whiff of The World We Want before they flee back to their own comfortable, comfortable places to settle our public business in private.

Wealth Bondage is public action in a private space. WB as Carnival enters the private spaces of power to undermine the walls that enclose the commons.

How other than with open conversation in a public space can we achive trust and transparency? How in a closed space could we ever create or preserve an open society?

Those who may feel that Peter Karoff is not listening or responding, please read the intro to his projected book, The World We Want. He is inside the firewall of Wealth Bondage Philanthropy, digging like mad. Note too that he has added, or caused to be added, to the TPI site the following line:

The World We Want blog articulates and advances a shared view of the world we want. What's your vision for a better world?

For a man without a persistent pseud, he is doing pretty well.

Ownership in and of Wealth Bondage

Posted by Tigg, Senior Wealth Bondage Fellow

​​​​It looks like I'm late to the discussion in the comments here on intellectual property. But before it winds up altogether, have you considered the benefits of having a patron? He could protect you. Or she could. I'm no sexist. You'd have to be careful not to bite the proverbial hand, like this guy did, but he -- or she!! -- could keep you safe from IP privateers.

Here, by the way, is what some of the legal peeps think of CC. They seem to be liberals, but that doesn't necessarily make them idiots. Some of my best friends are liberals.