#99 – Dick Bernard: "Capitalism: a Love Story"

(As you see this film, I’d like your comments to add, here.)
October 8, 2009:  We saw “Capitalism: A Love Story”, this afternoon.  It is well worth the time, and it’s messages will be conveyed in a later post.  Even if you think that Capitalism is all there is, this film will cause you to wonder….
October 3, 2009: We were planning to go to Michael Moore’s latest film, “Capitalism: a Love Story“, today, but scheduling problems (even retired people have scheduling problems!) interfered.
So, we don’t have bragging rights to having seen the film on its first day of release, or even the second.   The people who watched the film in over 1,000 theaters across the country can see it first.  There’ll be plenty of time.  Maybe early next week….
I’m a creature of Capitalism. Everyone of us in the U.S. are.  Even those who loathe Capitalism and live in the U.S. are in Capitalism’s clutches.  It surrounds us; it’s what we grew up with; it’s likely what we’ll die with, perhaps not a normal death.
(As I was writing the previous paragraph, an e-mail came in from Michael Moore’s mailing list, captioned “A Great Opening Night – – Do Not Put Off Seeing “Capitalism: A Love Story“.  Michael Moore’s take at #mce_temp_url#)
Capitalism is and has always been great for the serious Capitalists, the people who make the financial killing from business as usual.
What has always been a source of curiosity for me is why the foot-soldiers in behalf of Capitalism are ultimately its intended victims: the middle class types (like me) who are exhorted to spend what they don’t have on things that they don’t need to put cash in the hands of the people who will lay them off on a moments notice to help prop up a sagging profit and loss statement.
There are many ways that this nefarious goal is accomplished:  fear and loathing is an obvious one.  People, at Capitalism’s encouragement, rail on against the evils of “socialism” without even knowing what it is, except as defined by the Capitalist.  (We are a surprisingly “socialist” nation as it is…and we value the many socialist elements of our daily life.  Yet we’re supposed to despise socialism…and almost by rote, we do.)
Most working people are in effect “chained” to a corporate work station.  They are free to leave, yes, but terrified to do so, especially at this down time in the economy.  Capitalism generally abhors things like labor unions, and convinces the people who might benefit by labor unions to rail against them.
Or it can be seen at really great events, like Sunday’s Twin Cities Marathon, where the corporate face is very, very positive, and tens of thousands of people participate, and watch, an outstanding event largely run by volunteers (and, of course, the runners are “volunteers” as well.)  In the end analysis, though, it is the corporate sponsors, and the winners in the competition, who get the payoff.  Everyone else simply contributes to the corporate greater good.
The stories go on and on.
But, yes, we are all part of Capitalism.
In the end, I think that Capitalism will succeed only in killing itself*, in a final, slow but certain, act of self-immolation.  It won’t take a movie like 2012 to do us in.  We literally can’t survive living in as unbalanced a way as we currently continue to live.  It’s only a matter of time.  The only unknown is how much time….
By the time the Capitalists figure this out it will be too late.
Watch Michael Moore’s film, get in a lather (including against him, if you like – but the film is highly rated), and go to work for deep change.  You won’t get rid of Capitalism, but you can help get it reformed.
* – an older story: a friend of mine, a history buff, recalled reading an apparently true account of an old-time Capitalist venture that went severely awry.  Seems a group of European businessmen, in business to make money, saw an opportunity to make a bundle by selling armaments to a neighboring country.  They struck a deal, made their pile…and their country was promptly overrun by their newly well armed enemy.
I’d name the countries, but won’t.  Most any self-respecting Capitalist would do the same stupid thing if opportunity knocked….
Update October 6, 2009:  We’ll likely go to the film tomorrow.  In the interim, I’ll simply add some comments that have come to mind since my initial scribblings, above.
In the U.S. we’re immersed in Capitalism.  It’s ubiquitous, impossible to avoid.  Sunday I was over at the Twin Cities Marathon – first at the starting line at the Metrodome; then at the Finish Line (no, not as a runner!).
Everything about the marathon was a commercial event, from major sponsors, frequently named, company names on all products dispensed, probable tax write-offs for their “contributions” to the community.  Such events are marketing bonanzas for the corporate world.
But when I think of Capitalists, as a group, I mostly think of the really fat cats that make the really, really big bucks off the rest of the population.  These folks used to be called by terms like “Robber Baron”, “Captain of Industry” and the like.  In the present day you can see them in local, regional, national and international folks who are extremely wealthy (or appear to be so, till they’re busted for fraud, as has happened to some big operators in my area recently.)
These truly “rich” folks, as defined by almost anyone, are today’s Capitalists.  They are only the most recent in a long, long line of people whose god is money, and who exercise power against all the rest of us.
Most of them are probably “good” people.  But if it comes to accumulating power and money (synonymous terms, in my opinion), they can be pretty ruthless.

#83 – Dick Bernard: "I loved her first…."

At my age, it’s a given that I’ve been to many weddings over the years.  Yesterdays was a bit more special than most, even though I had no direct involvement with it, other than attending and participating as a guest (the bride-to-be was my wife’s niece).
Sometime after the wedding and the dinner, somebody mentioned the song they knew had been selected for the Father-Bride dance.  It was, they said, a tear-jerker.  I wasn’t aware of it, and waited for the appropriate moment, when Jeff and Megan took the dance floor by themselves, and the song began.  I got it…what they meant by “tear-jerker”… especially in context with a Dad who clearly loved his daughter, and a daughter who clearly loved her Dad.
This morning I went to YouTube to see if I could find the exact same song I heard last night, and I think I did.  Here’s the link: #mce_temp_url#.
The song was wonderful, and a ‘tear-jerker’ for some, listening, as it was for me. Sadly, as you’ll note if you read the sidebar as you listen to the song on YouTube, some folks can’t leave well enough alone, and apparently choose to argue about, and probably ridicule, feelings like this song so clearly expresses.  It takes all kinds….
Truth be told, I don’t do weddings really well: I’m not much of a glad-hander or small-talk person.  It’s just me.
But there could be much worse ways to start the travel that is marriage than a tear-jerker like “I loved her first”.  And I am very glad I was there to experience the moment.
Best wishes to yesterday’s loving couple, and best wishes to all who either are venturing into marriage, or are somewhere on the not always simple journey that can be marriage.

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#66 – Dick Bernard: The practice of the viral lie.

Note comment following this post.
Other posts on this topic: July 24,26,27,29,30,31,August 1,2,5,7,10,15.
In #60, posted July 29th, I commented on an e-list I somehow found myself on.  The list sends what could only be described as hysterical fear-mongering, mostly against Health Care Reform, and offers to send faxes to all 535 members of Congress for members for only $25 a month.  July 29, I reported having received six e-mails from this source.  This morning it is up to 15.  I am keeping them all in my ‘junk’ file.  Each e-mail includes a disclaimer at the end.  The disclaimer is reprinted in full at the end of this post.  The outfit works out of a PO Box in Orange CA.
July 25, in the morning, I received the first more-or-less “normal” salvo in the Health Care Reform lie campaign of 2009.  It was a YouTube segment of an undated, apparently recent, radio talk show.  The audio had, helpfully, a cover gallery of Nazi photos as wallpaper background on the YouTube screen, doubtless to remind the viewer/listener where we were headed if we didn’t stop this Health Care Reform business.  I didn’t know who the talk show host was – it turned out to be former Senator Fred Thompson.  The guest was identified as Betsy McCaughey, purporting to give the truth about the Health Care Reform proposals, especially about euthanasia for old people. 
The e-mail came to me and two others; the sender of the e-mail had been one of four who had received it the previous evening.  It came with a note “shocking if true”.  The subject line said “A warrior for Health Care”.  It was a viral e-mail.
At the time I viewed the YouTube segment it had been watched 36000 times. 
In between July 25 and today, McCaughey’s arguments have been outed as more than dishonest – well, let’s call them what they are: lies.  No less than an editorial in USA Today commented on their dishonesty.  Yes, they are carefully worded lies, but if one intends to deceive, it is a lie nonetheless, and that is what McCaughey, and her ilk, are doing. 
When I last looked, today, 11 days after the initial mailing, the YouTube segment has been viewed 180,000 times – about 10,000 per day.  One of those viewers is me.   I also sent it to my own e-list.  Perhaps some of them watched it as well.
Many (but by no means all) of those forwarding and watching the video will accept it as the truth, even though it is untrue. 
That is how it goes in the land of the viral lie.
So, what to do?
I simply pointed out the dishonest facts about the segment to the person who sent it on to me, actually sending additional documentation about the dishonesty in past days.
Beyond doing that, I don’t know that there is much more that can be done.
You hope, hopefully not in vain, that the recipient of the corrected information will pass it back on up the line as these are people who he/she knows in person, and they have no idea who I am. 
Assuming the worst – that there will be no clarifying going back up the line – (the most likely scenario), the only thing I think we can do is to continue to slog on, doing our best to be truth tellers in a time when truth is an extraordinarily scarce, and even despised, virtue.   
If polls are at all accurate, the vast majority of Americans believe there are very serious problems with our current system of Health Care delivery.  Most people know the system is broke and they its current or potential victims.  The vast majority of Americans are perhaps sufficiently skeptical to not “buy the [dishonest] kool-aid” of the outrageous claims made by the enemies of reform.  But lies are enticing, and can be made believable.
I will keep checking in on that YouTube segment to see how the numbers grow over the coming weeks (occasionally I’ll post updates).  It would be reasonable to expect that it will go over 1,000,000 – by no means will all of those who watch it, believe it.  And even if everyone who watches it believes it, they remain a tiny drop-in-a-bucket of the total U.S. population, and they are the type who’ll be on that other e-list I described at the beginning of this post, and trying to shout out dialogue at town hall forums.  It is important to keep that fact in mind. 
Meanwhile, I know that for anyone who has even the tiniest bit of interest, there are multitudes of sources out there which respond to all of the charges which have been made.  With sophisticated search engines, and a tiny bit of care in what search words one uses, truth-telling information is available, particularly on the internet.
Here’s the disclaimer referred to in the first paragraph of this post: “This mail cannot be considered spam as long as we include contact information and remove instructions.  This message is being sent to you in compliance with the current Federal Legislation for commercial e-mail (H.R. 4176 – SECTION 101 Paragraph (e)(1)(a) AND Bill s. 1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th Congress.”

#60 – Dick Bernard: Health Care Reform and the Middle Class: The Middle Class fighting against its own best interests?

This is post #4 of 13. The others: July 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, August 1, 2,5,6,7,10,15.
Please note comments filed at July 24 and 26 posts.  I also added a brief update at the end of the July 26 post.  The final planned post on this series will be tomorrow.  I hope they elicit at minimum some thought.  If there is to be change, it is up to us, not to somebody else, to bring it about.
This post is particularly difficult to write, even though, except for a couple of too-close calls to long-term “poor”, I’ve always been middle class.  Even with some serious ‘speed bumps’, I’ve been pretty fortunate so far.
It is the middle class (most broadly defined) in this country which bears (and will bear) the consequences of chaotic health care “choice”, misleading sales pitches, and profiteering by assorted entrepreneurs committed to maximizing the “monetizing” of Health Services through many assorted means.  The pinnacle of today’s medical industry, most broadly defined, is about making money, lots and lots of money.  World Class Care is a distant second, and care for all is bad economics if the monetary bottom line  is the objective.
It is ironic, then, to see that the middle class is actively recruited for – and willing to – lobby against any substantive attempts to reform the system that in far too many instances hurts them. 
If anyone will, it will be the American middle class that will truly kill health care reform. 
It is not hard to figure out how “recruitment”  happens.  Fear.  For just one example, somehow or other I got on a nationwide e-list that is, charitably, anti-government and thus anti-tax.  (I’m actually glad I’m on this list (passively) since it opens a window into the exploitation of the Fear people have of change.) 
Here’s the subject lines to date (I may update as new ones come in, as they will): July 3 – generally anti-Taxes; July 18 – Congress plans to Outlaw Private Insurance; July 26 – the insurance reform will cover 12,000,000 illegals; July 28 (three e-mails) – Congress won’t enroll in its own Government Health Care; Obama-care Night-mare; call for One million Tea Bag faxes targeting two Democratic Senators.  The bottom line for this initiative: keep the middle class fearful and confused and divided.  Works well.  Who funds this initiative?  Whatever the case, it exists.
The tone of these e-mails are on the verge of hysterical (and written to sound believable), and my guess is that plenty of middle class folks bite.
But of what benefit to the middle class is the continuation of the current system, essentially unchanged?  If you are very lucky, you are enrolled in a large group plan, you aren’t facing layoff, and the plan has a retirement supplement option which won’t disappear and which you can afford.  That is the kind of plan I’m in, I think.  But I’m in a pretty sheltered environment.  And the part of my plan that covers what Medicare doesn’t – the supplement – is never certain.
(A year ago all retirees of the company were called together for a special session where the benefits people introduced ten or more competing alternative plans that we, the consumers, were invited to look at.  There were hundreds of people there.  Why is Plan E cheaper than Plan A?  What does Plan E take away that you would get with Plan A?  The devil is always in the details, or in the fine print.  Most of us don’t have the skills or the time to navigate this morass.  But this is the choice we consumers are constantly asked to make – and then it’s our own fault if we make a dumb choice.  So, I pick a choice that barely covers chemotherapy because I don’t need that coverage, and I end up with cancer?  My problem.)
The Health Care crisis didn’t happen last week…it has been evolving for years (read tomorrow’s post).  But like the person with a suspicious symptom who refuses to go see the doctor for fear of what the doctor might find, society (based on the rhetoric of its political representatives) seems to believe that refusing to acknowledge the problem will make it go away.  Not.
I know the general parameters of the field of health care pretty well.  In addition to personal experience over the years, and close relatives in the field, for nearly 30 years I was intimately involved with negotiating and administrating several hundred collective bargaining contracts for tiny to large union locals, all of which had some form or another of group health insurance. 
These plans were good, bad or sometimes awful.  Sometimes the participants paid nothing for the coverage; in other places they paid a lot.  In every case, to belong to the plan they had to be a contracted employee, and if they were laid off or left for some other reason, their health benefit ended at some early point. 
Long before I retired in 2000, efforts were already being made to pool the small plans into a much larger state-wide plan, which would spread the risk, and thus create greater efficiencies (lower cost).  To date, so far as I know, such efforts have failed, in large part because the have’s are not (if we’re to be really honest) interested in compromising parts of their quality plans to help the have nots.  In the end, both the haves and the have nots suffer from this short-sighted approach.  But logic doesn’t often fit into this debate, which is emotional.
I’d like to see light at the end of the tunnel, but absent citizen outrage the problem will get worse.  People are and will continue to be forced to make decisions based on bad or manipulated information which, of course, will have bad consequences.
In the end the American Middle Class will decide whether to do the common sense thing and go to some kind of single payer option, or choose instead the status quo which will (my opinion) only continue to get more and more chaotic. 
The decision will be up to us….  What are YOU doing to impact?

#37 – Dick Bernard: The "Can don't" * problem….

 Continuing the “Crash Course” conversation (previous postings at May 11 and June 3, 2009).
This “thread” tends towards conversation about Climate Change.  I recommend an eight minute down-to-earth talk by 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner, Prof Richard Alley, to school children about the topic.  It is accessible at http://www.peacesites.org/educators/nobelfestival.  Click on link to Prof. Alley’s presentation.  Professor Alley, Pennsylvania State University, is part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch .
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Monday evening we had a visitor, a very nice woman in her 30s with two school age kids, who cares a lot about people, but whose husbands sterling job has lately become much less certain causing a change in their lifestyle, and making it necessary for her to take a job cleaning houses for others (she’s very good at it, but I don’t think her health will permit it long term.  She has a college degree and worked outside the home till the kids came along.)
She is very able and she cares.  That’s the long and short of it.
After we ate I excused myself to watch the news about the just announced General Motors bankruptcy/government takeover.  After a time she, her kindergarten daughter and my wife joined me, and they played “Sorry” nearby.
Our friend could not avoid the TV…it was close to where she sat.  It was obvious she wished the news wasn’t on.  At one point, she simply said “I can’t deal with this”, as in, “I’d rather imagine there were no problems”.  There was no controversy about it at all; no followup conversation.  After a while, as planned, she and her daughter went home.
Our visitor is probably worried about the future, but apparently hopes her worries will go away without her having to deal with the issues.
Carol, in her June 2 post, here, had described her own rural community environment and attitudes, as she perceived them.  Her comments are worth rereading.  In my case, I live in what would be described as an affluent suburb of a large metropolitan area.  I’m deeply rooted in rural midwest.  I know “country” from long experience.
In reading Carol’s post, I couldn’t find any generalizations that I would disagree with except that her description of attitudes of “rural” and “poor” could probably fit the vast majority of all of us, regardless of income, or where we live.  Similarly, George Lakoff (see the same post) is spot on in his analysis of what needs to be done.
Carol defines “community” (as it is seen by her fellow community members) somewhat more narrowly than I would, but that is what this conversation is about – talking about such issues.  I think todays citizens cannot avoid the reality that they are part of a much larger community that goes far beyond their town limit. 
I’d suggest that there is a solution not touched on by Carol that we tend to pass by.  More in a moment on that.
It is a given that the “poor” (however loosely defined**) are mostly engaged in the business of surviving, and not likely to be generally involved in movements.  Their focus is day to day.  They cannot be counted on as activists.  (Neither should they be counted out.)
On the other end, The “rich” are a minute fraction of any population, and know it, but command immense resources with which to manipulate the rest.  They are good at this manipulation, but aware of their vulnerability nonetheless.  Being at the top of the heap is of little long term value for most “successful” people in our competitive society.  Being “king of the hill” is a risky place to be…nonetheless many people are constantly seeking “the top”.
It is unlikely that a mantra of proper “framing” words could adequately counter a long established “conservative” mindset and vocabulary, simply by a concerted campaign to implant other words.  Such a campaign would be a turn-off.  Reciting some “Lakoff mantra” to our visitor last Monday would not have been helpful.  She’d likely find an excuse to avoid future visits.
At the same time, however, our visitor is very concerned about the future: will her husbands unpaid days increase?  Will his job disappear in a future layoff?  Will they even be able to stay in their expensive house with many amenities?  Will they even be able to sell the house?  Not long ago they were on top of the world, and now they’re not so sure.
A possible solution:  I think that there are, in the massive “middle” of our society, huge numbers of people who seem resistant to being pushed in a certain direction, but are nonetheless willing to listen and participate even if they say in one way or another “I can’t deal with it”.  They’re well educated, thoughtful, have access to the information and they care about what’s being left behind for future generations.  A way needs to be found to approach them.
The task for those who are well informed on the issues is to find those new ways to deliver messages of change without scaring away or turning off potential listeners.
If everyone could quietly motivate one or two others in their own circles, there would be great results.
* – About the title: As I read Carol’s comments about her rural community, I thought about my rural roots and a particular relative who had a “can do” attitude when it came to fixing some old piece of machinery that had broken down.  One way or another he’d “get ‘er done” and get the machine working again.  Politically, however, he had more of a “can don’t” attitude.  Beyond voting, which he always did, and attending lots of meetings, he felt he had no power in politics, and by his inactions proved his point.  He left his “can do” on the farm, in the machine shed….
** – I know a person who has a six figure annual income, and a financial portfolio that even today is worth well over a million dollars.  Nonetheless this person considers herself “poor”.  She doesn’t think she can afford to furnish her apartment; she rails about taxes – they encroach on her wealth (and security).  She has been told by her financial advisor that she needs “x” million in savings to have an adequate retirement, and obsesses about this number.  My prediction is that this threshold number will continue to increase, and regardless of her wealth, she’ll never reach her goal, and always consider herself to be poor.
 
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#26 – Dick Bernard: NIMBY – Are we killing ourselves through "fear itself"?

Shortly I will join a webinar sponsored by the Connect US Fund (www.connectusfund.org).  The title of the session “The Fear Factor: A briefing on communication and messaging from U.S. In The World”.   The  suggested readings are listed at the end of this posting.  They are very interesting.

 

I write intentionally before that session convenes.  Somehow it seems that the title is missing something when it says “from U.S. In The World”.  Might it better be, rather, “among us”?

 

The internal use of Fear to manipulate us is perhaps our most deadly enemy as a nation.  As I suggest in the title, we buy this Fear and, I contend, we are accepting the role of “killing ourselves”.

 

Examples are abundant.  Two on the national and international level occurred for me in the past 24 hours

 

1.  Yesterday, May 20, the United States Senate voted 90-6 against a small budget allocation directed towards the closing of Guantanamo Prison in Cuba.  The vote is not because there is serious disagreement with the data about the prisoners long held there, their possible guilt or innocence, the implications of their release, whether they can get a fair trial, etc.  Neither is it about the need to close this institution which has come to represent the worst of what we are as a nation.  We know we have to do this.  But none of this is terribly relevant.

 

The sole question seems to be “where should these prisoners go?”  And the stated and unstated answer is, “not in my backyard” (NIMBY).  We are afraid of these people, and legislators are afraid to face down this fear and do what is right.  They are afraid of the political consequences in the next election.

 

Some of these prisoners, (Many?  Most?), were innocent when they were thrown in jail without any rights, and left to rot there, tortured for information they did not have.  In the tragic irony of such situations, their very false incarceration leads to the near certainty of their continued incarceration in Cuba.  Nobody wants them in their state.

 

Fear is at work.  Politicians know the value of fear as a motivator.  Nobody wants them, even in the most secure facilities in the United States.   

 

If only this were the only example of fear run amuck….

 

2.  The same day the Senate voted I received the draft of a long carefully written letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations questioning the conduct of a recent election in the country of Haiti.  It seems that a major political party was denied placement on the ballot there because its designated leader had not properly signed the required form: a fax’ed signature was deemed improper.  Because this party wasn’t on the ballot, apparently great numbers of people boycotted the election in question, rendering the results invalid: there was no free election.

 

Since the designated leader of the party “is half a world away, exiled to another continent under international pressure” he could not sign in person the form required.

 

I have come to know a bit about this country and the sordid long term U.S. relationship with it.  Most Americans likely know little or nothing about Haiti, which makes it irrelevant and invisible to them.  But what we do reflects negatively on us, in relationship much as we impact negatively on it.

 

The leaders name is Jean-Bertrand Aristide, twice democratically elected president of Haiti, forced into exile by a coup engineered by the U.S., France and Canada in 2004.  Aristide, native born and till 2004 a life-long resident of Haiti, cannot even return to the country of his birth.  He is in another Guantanamo of our making, South Africa, even though he has not been found guilty of anything other than being someone the United States didn’t want to hold office in the desperately poor sovereign nation of Haiti.

 

For a particular reason, his popularity with the people of Haiti, the United States apparently fears Aristide’s return to his home country.   We fear any sense of empowerment of his constituency, the poor, for whose interests he advocated. 

 

Unlike the prisoners at Guantanamo, most Americans have probably never heard of Aristide; in fact, during a period of exile after another coup (1991) he lived several years in the United States.  One wonders if he would even be allowed to come to the United States at this point.

 

We seem mired in a swamp of our own making.  If there is anything we need to fear, it is that we are destroying ourselves.

 

Here are the readings suggested for today’s web-based session.  They are worth the time.

Resources
Detecting Intentions, Managing Fear: How Americans Think about National Security
Produced by the Topos Partnership for the National Security Network
http://www.connectusfund.org/resources/detecting-intentions-managing-fear-how-americans-think-about-national-security-0
Death Grip: How Political Psychology Explains Bush’s Ghastly Success
By John J. Judis, in The New Republic, August 27, 2007

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=9e9af105-6745-497a-b5f8-4f304749eed4&p=1

“Cheney’s Fear Mongering”
Political Cartoon by Morin, in The Miami Herald, April 5-11, 2009

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/Cheneyu-Fear-Mongering.htm

“A Nuclear 9/11?”
By Brian Michael Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2008/09/11/CNN.html

“Clark blasts GOP terror video”
Alex Isenstadt, in Politico, May 8, 2009

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22268.html

 

 

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