John Ralston Saul on Globalization - Part 2

John Ralston Saul predicted the collapse of globalism. WatchMojo.com discusses his new book A Fair Country and gets his opinion on the state of the world today.

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[reddentubeyou]

Ralston for Global President! Democracy has failed us. Bring on the philosopher kings.

[miatjie]

After reading JRS's The Doubter's Companion which is still amazingly relevant despite being written '94, I'm guessing he would more likely say that we have failed Democracy, not the other way 'round. Democracy isn't like a piece of software that runs everything for us, we have to continually keep working on it and maintain it. It's hard work.

[controversialbook]

I read in school, “The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

The problem is not the rich, the problem is the idiot that needs and wants to be treated like a peasant. Look at the cowards on YouTube. 90% are without the courage to show their face, give their name and post a bio. If you expect help from these worms, you're in for a huge disappointment.

[blogleftbanker]

It's pathetic to think how few Americans have heard of JRS and instead we lift up as oracles complete fucking morons like Rush Limabaugh, Sarah Palin, Beck, and the rest of them, people who have never had a coherent original thought in their lives.

[eric1956johnston]

I have also been watching and reading Raulston Saul work for a number of years. Allan Greenspan has been protecting the corporate interest for years and has implemented their agenda for them. The average usa citizen does not even have environmental rights because the governments are listening only to the coroporate stakeholder. The the oil spill in the gulf of mexico "ring a bell" and how BP was trying to be the hero. Major monitoring management was given to these corps under globalization.

[eric1956johnston]

I have also been watching and reading Raulston Saul work for a number of years. Allan Greenspan has been protecting the corporate interest for years and has implemented their agenda for them. The average usa citizen does not even have environmental rights because the governments are listening only to the coroporate stakeholder. The the oil spill in the gulf of mexico "ring a bell" and how BP was trying to be the hero. Major key monitoring management was given to these corps under globalization.

[Xenostrobe]

destruction... I often make that mistake... obviously what I have to say is plain silly.

[Xenostrobe]

Yeah, gee, what a riddler I am... bet, for a million dollars you couldn't derive some sense from it.

It's not unheard of in the literature of Economics for 'incentives' to be a keyword. Come on think about it! Incentive - the distruction of the biosphere... heaven forbid that girls should curb the 'disastrous inscouciance' Dalrymple speaks of in his essay Tough Love, you ought to google it.

But perhaps I'm being too hard on men, by assuming more agency on the part of the fairer sex.

[bin1127]

your whole post makes no sense.... are you high?

[Xenostrobe]

Good interview, Rebecca is quite attractive, I wonder what her idea of 'eligible' is in a man. I wonder if it tends to exert pressure that translates as complicity with the Story Of Stuff.

Men do delusional things for attractive women, please don't reward them for it.