Huainanzi - Entry 39

Trey Smith

Those desirous of fortune may create disaster, while those desirous of gain may cleave to what is harmful.
~ a passage from The Book of Leadership and Strategy by Thomas Cleary ~

I have given a lot of plaudits to Naomi Klein and her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, but it now seems that the Chinese Masters had the shock doctrine figured out thousands of years earlier!!

We are seeing this strategy play out within our midst right now. The financial elites have created a disaster -- humongous deficits -- and their "solution" for the problem they willfully created is more tax cuts for the rich, weakening of environmental safeguards, slashing needed social services to bone, an increase in war making and the attempt to steal as many public assets as they can get their hands on.

And they wonder why thousands of people are in the streets?

To read the introduction to this ongoing series, go here.