[news] Why Capitalism Needs Terror: An Interview with Naomi Klein

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

"...[D]isasters are moments where people are blasted out of the way...or just picking up the pieces after having been bombed, or their entire world view has just been shattered...[S]o you have...these think tanks as sort of idea-warmers -- they keep the ideas ready for when the disaster hits. Milton Friedman said that only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change, and when that crisis hits, the change that occurs depends on the ideas that are lying around."

  


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