Chris Hedges discussing "Empire of Illusion."  Please see my post on his important work.

I totally disagree with Hedges about how we fix this problem, and especially his rejection of President Obama. But that does not dampen my respect for his analysis of the problem we face as a culture. But that's what makes Liberals different from conservatives. We can respect the diversity of opinions within our ranks, and not oversimplify either problems or solutions.

This takes a little bit to warm up.. but give it time. Roll with it.

 

Last week, I had suggested to the Punk that he make a series of shorter, more focused explainer videos, and find a background a bit nicer than this laundry. I'm elated by his choices here. The Concorporative™ Flag is absolutely brilliant. All Corpizens™ should have one.

I think the Punk is on his way to being a viral web standard, but I think this format can also be matured into something that might easily be a regular 2 minute featurette tacked onto someone's cable show (hint hint).  I also feel a few of those derivative bloggers are sure to start copying the concept any minute now, and that's fine, provided the content is solid. Competition, like capitalism itself, can be a good. When it's Rational.

 

While I don't think they were right about solutions, they were certainly right about problems.

But then so are many on the left today. Unfortunately, being right is meaningless if you cannot also be relevant, heard, and effective.  Still this video captures the spirit of wrongness that permeates the American experiment as it stands here in almost 2011.