Life Inc. Dispatch 01: Crisis as Opportunity

For more information about Douglas Rushkoff's book, "LIFE INC. How The World Became A Corporation And How To Take It Back" check out
http://www.lifeincorporated.net and the LIFE INC. 9min movie

The LIFE INC. Dispatch = Brief weekly videos encapsulating key concepts and ready strategies from Douglas Rushkoff's LIFE INC. for de-corporatizing our lives, abandoning the speculative economy, and rebuilding both commerce and community from the bottom up.

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Coercion, Nothing Sacred, Get Back in the Box, and the novel Ecstasy Club. He made the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and the upcoming Digital Nation. He is the host of the WFMU radio show The MediaSquat, and he will be teaching the New School University this Fall.

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[VoteLib3rty]

@DevilDave13 Thanks. Got it on second listen. 

[DevilDave13]

@VoteLib3rty Listen to it again. His point is that joining the Obama camping is not the best solution.

[madhusudan]

His ideas capture the zeitgeist many people seem to be arriving at together.

[tigerwoodcourt]

Thank you Douglas for highlighting ways for us, as you say, "disengage from the myths through which we abdicate responsibility." Your book inspired to donate through donorschoosedotorg to my neighborhood school.

[VoteLib3rty]

Why would someone that seems to know so much about the fraudulent monetary system suggest joining the Obama campaign as a blow to corporatism? Obama is a creation of the wall street corporatists and their personal sock puppet.

[SeeingFinance]

to paraphrase, don't validate the corporations by framing them as the dragons that need slaying