Parecon, yes! The corporate hierarchies and totalitarian one-way flow of information within the capitalist machinery reflects our state of affairs only too well. What is most worrying is that even this two-class split of corporate society into executives and employees seems to be tied to extensive class reproduction, at least in most parts of this world. To even attribute the word 'free' when describing our market economy is heretic as far as I can see, surely this can only apply when there is equal ownership of productive means by ALL participants. Or am I missing something here? (maybe I'm forgetting that most economic jargon only applies when within and swallowed by a Fortune 500...). Nobody seems to realize that by talking about the 'top 10%' you're implicitly talking about the 'bottom 90%', which, although fully inclusive of the other, throws a slightly darker light on the ratio.

What it comes down to is the source of individual pain, Jesus, we make blue collar workers believe they have to swat around because they're too stupid to wear a tie! This is plain non-sense. We give them stupid media, disinformation - essentially brainwashing them into distorted personalities. Just look at all those employees. These people are hardly leading authentic lives for themselves! How can you not have a distorted mind when in an unenlightened situation? I'm sure that anyone with an average IQ could run any corporation if given the necessary information and tools. It's not as if the average Harvard MBA has any clue about how to run things anyway (not that this would be a necessary factor for success in an unjust, protectionist and monopolistic market with 60% operational margins). We're not even good at what we're doing... How inefficiently do we want to run this world? We essentially throw 90% of human potential down the drain... s'cuse me, I know it sounds stupid, but we have space waiting to be colonized. This is in fact a totally acute need within the next coupla hundred years - why this isn't largely talked about and sought after I don't quite understand (the US probably concluded in the mid-seventies that there's no oil on the moon, hence they ditched the Apollo programme). In any case, how are we going to colonize anything, or even maintain life on earth at the current rate, if our society only produces 1 genius for every possible 10? Or is that all that's needed in order to build anti-ballistic missile shields (which don't seem to work anyway - every test has failed so far)? We are after all doubling the world population at quite an alarming rate and I think it will require some other technologies than that in order to maintain a life without devastation... Just think 50 years down the line guys, do you know just how many people will be living on this planet (and you guys might just belong to a white minority (you already are a minority race in fact) - the last white men...)? Compare with current resource flow and statistics - scary. A white minority controlling the world? Is that where the US is heading?

Improperly understood within anti-communism, that's exactly what happened. We're all brainwashed essentially ('democracy' - just listen to the sound of it... say it out aloud. No way). We should stop using the word until the time comes.