Today I am reminded of a certain well-known social media site which asks, "What's on your mind?" An even better reference is Steve Allen's old PBS Show, "Meeting of Minds." The trouble is I have only my own mind at the moment.
However, I do have an answer to the question. I am thinking so much about the profit system these days, how hurtful and inefficient it is. Almost everyone on the popular left continues trying to "regulate" the profit system, to refine it, to curtail it -- but not to challenge it. Yet challenge it we must if we are to survive. My fear is we are going to see a big collapse before the system is seriously challenged. In such a collapse so many people get hurt. I wish that could be avoided. If we face facts now we have a much better chance of minimizing the pain.
I realize this is asking a great deal. The main problem I see is that the press and media are essentially profit-making industries, and very big ones. What there is of an independent media has a hard time competing in the world of ideas. The behavior of the media in so many ways is ugly and destructive. All the more reason to support independent journalists. In my own humble way I am honored to try to contribute.
However, I do have an answer to the question. I am thinking so much about the profit system these days, how hurtful and inefficient it is. Almost everyone on the popular left continues trying to "regulate" the profit system, to refine it, to curtail it -- but not to challenge it. Yet challenge it we must if we are to survive. My fear is we are going to see a big collapse before the system is seriously challenged. In such a collapse so many people get hurt. I wish that could be avoided. If we face facts now we have a much better chance of minimizing the pain.
I realize this is asking a great deal. The main problem I see is that the press and media are essentially profit-making industries, and very big ones. What there is of an independent media has a hard time competing in the world of ideas. The behavior of the media in so many ways is ugly and destructive. All the more reason to support independent journalists. In my own humble way I am honored to try to contribute.
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