“Many people are suffering. So many more than I imagined. Quietly, just secretly, really suffering. ... Heat in the winter, it’s a human right.” -- The Woodsman
I'd never heard of Sinclair's political aspirations until now. Now it feels so depressing - how people are wasting their lives trying to make things better, just to be shanked by these corporations claiming to represent our interests.
I'm not sure how popular the book was at the time. I'm guessing it was pretty suppressed and got no reviews in mainstream newspapers. I was able to find an original copy, but it was in pretty fragile condition, so I bought the reprint featured in the post.
As to politics, the challenges are great and we are falling -- tripping -- into a whole new political world. One, I fear, that is along the lines of all the sociopaths gathered in Davos, Switzerland today for the opening of the World Economic Forum. If they have their way, we will be a new world of technocratic, internationalized hyper-capitalist corporate global government and most of the world will be in a new form of feudalism. All of it will be propagandized and enforced through AI.
The one thing on our side is the blind arrogance of these people. The same kind of arrogance where there are literally millions around the world marching for Palestinian rights and on the 100th day of the Gaza genocide, yet "Genocide" Joe mourned the Israelis killed on Oct. 7 and said absolutely nothing of the 24,000+ and counting Gazans murdered by Israel with our bombs and money.
Can/will the illegitimacy of the rulers collapse and topple the corrupt leadership before they are able to cement the controls in place? I don't know. Sure as hell hope so. I do believe that mutual aid can help ease the suffering and perhaps create a new model for the future. One thing I do know, voting R or D in November won't do anything to help.
I'd never heard of Sinclair's political aspirations until now. Now it feels so depressing - how people are wasting their lives trying to make things better, just to be shanked by these corporations claiming to represent our interests.
I can't believe the whole of Fox Valley library system doesn't have that book. They've got other Sinclair's such as "A Captain of Industry
- the Story of a Civilized Man" which sounds good - but not "I, candidate for governor."
I'm not sure how popular the book was at the time. I'm guessing it was pretty suppressed and got no reviews in mainstream newspapers. I was able to find an original copy, but it was in pretty fragile condition, so I bought the reprint featured in the post.
As to politics, the challenges are great and we are falling -- tripping -- into a whole new political world. One, I fear, that is along the lines of all the sociopaths gathered in Davos, Switzerland today for the opening of the World Economic Forum. If they have their way, we will be a new world of technocratic, internationalized hyper-capitalist corporate global government and most of the world will be in a new form of feudalism. All of it will be propagandized and enforced through AI.
The one thing on our side is the blind arrogance of these people. The same kind of arrogance where there are literally millions around the world marching for Palestinian rights and on the 100th day of the Gaza genocide, yet "Genocide" Joe mourned the Israelis killed on Oct. 7 and said absolutely nothing of the 24,000+ and counting Gazans murdered by Israel with our bombs and money.
Can/will the illegitimacy of the rulers collapse and topple the corrupt leadership before they are able to cement the controls in place? I don't know. Sure as hell hope so. I do believe that mutual aid can help ease the suffering and perhaps create a new model for the future. One thing I do know, voting R or D in November won't do anything to help.