Comments on: Places to Intervene in the Meltdown process https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/places-to-intervene-in-the-meltdown-process/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:04:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Jon Husband https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/places-to-intervene-in-the-meltdown-process/comment-page-1/#comment-398807 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:26:01 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2585#comment-398807 It’s a structural issue in the main (as you know as well or better than me), and the only ideas or concepts that are “valid” for wide debate or consideration are those they are allowed to place on the table and bruit.

Other ideas (no shortage of interesting concept and approaches can be found in discussions (on blogs, as just one example) but they are not accepted as serious or part of the “official” conversation about policy, governance or implementation of approaches.

]]> By: links for 2009-03-26 | stuart henshall https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/places-to-intervene-in-the-meltdown-process/comment-page-1/#comment-398522 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:02:32 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2585#comment-398522 […] P2P Foundation » Blog » Places to Intervene in the Meltdown process | we know "the powers&quo… It’s frustrating to listen to the blather in the mainstream media about the current financial and economic c"risis, which is all about which interventions of types #7-12 (and mostly #10-12), if any, are appropriate to use to ‘rescue’ the greedy and incompetent people and institutions that exploited the financial system for personal gain, and to get us back into the addictive and unsustainable cycle of excessive and ever-increasing debt and consumption. And as long as the rich and powerful espouse only these foolish ways of thinking and ineffectual interventions to perpetuate their realization, and as long as the media dumbly and obediently report these as the only ideas on the table, public discourse will remain uninformed, conservative and unimaginative. And the chances of real intervention bringing about real change — what Obama called for but seems unable to muster — will be next to none.”" (tags: Economics meltdown disruption bankingcrisis depression) […]

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