Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine

We…need to know that we are not losers. We did not lose the battle of ideas. We were not outsmarted, and we were not out-argued. We lost because we were crushed. Sometimes we were crushed by army tanks, and sometimes we were crushed by think tanks. And by think tanks, I mean the people who are paid to think by the makers of tanks…. The quest to impose a single world market has casualties now in the millions, from Chile then to Iraq today. These blueprints for another world were crushed and disappeared because they are popular and because, when tried, they work…. Understanding that we never lost the battle of ideas, that we only lost a series of dirty wars, is key to building the confidence that we lack, to igniting the passionate intensity that we need.

Naomi Klein
You can hear Naomi Klein on

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1432250&mode=thread&tid=25

She will also be a plenary speaker at October’s 18th Annual Bioneers Conference in San Rafael California. www.bioneers.org