Thursday, February 09, 2012

Dibs and dabs

How I feel after watching too much politics on tv.

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

The 35 Most Unforgivable Facebook Statuses

2 comments:

Steve Bates said...

"Although Norwegians may not tell you about this the first time you meet them, the fact remains that their society’s high level of freedom and broadly-shared prosperity began when workers and farmers, along with middle class allies, waged a nonviolent struggle that empowered the people to govern for the common good."

Wow. We could do that. But I'm quite certain we won't.

I saved the link to that Swarthmore nonviolent action database; that could be interesting.

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ellroon said...

{blockquote}Silly Blogger {/blockquote}

Empowering people to govern for the common good would ruin our economy...