More Deconstruction

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

As journalist Michael Parenti has pointed out (Land of Idols, St. Martin's 
Press, 1994), politicians & corporate leaders naturally work to further their 
own monetary & power interests, often in a conspiratorial manner. To believe 
otherwise is to believe in "Coincidence Theory" (a truly nutty idea that the 
interests of the very wealthy are magically maintained by chance, year after 
year without any planning); or "Aberration Theory" (the 
blind-to-historical-reality-notion that dirty CIA tricks are atypical 
departures from the norm); or "Stupidity Theory" (the irrational idea that 
the very wealthy and their minions stupidly & repeatedly bumble their way 
into maintaining world domination, never "planning" or using forethought); or 
"Somnambulist Theory" (the illogical view that world dominators sleepwalk 
through life without ever thinking of their vast wealth & how to keep it); or 
"Idiosyncrasy Theory" (the unthinking theory that "stuff just happens" in a 
way that furthers the interests of oil companies & other powerful folks—& 
that somehow it "just happens" the exact same way again & again over a long 
period of time.)

In the legal world, there is plenty of conspiracy, indeed, there are actually 
laws against it.  Some would argue that "planning" is not conspiracy.  But if 
I were to get together with a person & plan to kill somebody & this plan were 
to come to the attention of law enforcement, we would be charged with 
"conspiracy to commit a felony" & justly punished.  A defense that it was 
only a plan would not hold water.  

in fetal position, sobbing uncontrollably,

jbf
    
    
    


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