real utopias

Watch this debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault – there are subtitles for non-English speaking parts.

The economy is not nearly as complex as Wall Street economists and the U.S government would have you believe. When discussing the economy we’re often talking about things that are not tangible in themselves but rather some very basic cause and effect relationships which affect the conditions and overall health of the economy at any given time. It’s important to understand how these cause and effect relationships interplay with each other, and that certain conditions must occur before certain other things can happen. It’s impossible to discuss one aspect of the economy without discussing others and how they influence each other. So the goal here is to key in on one or two cause and effect relationships. In a previous essay we discussed how excessive accumulation of capital in our finite economy, is actually an anti-stimulus to the general overall economy and reading that may enhance the readers understanding of what’s being said here. Once anyone starts to become familiar with how the economic pieces fit together and affect each other, it may start to sound redundant when changing the subject of focus precisely because of the interplay, interdependence and overlap of the various aspects which influence economic conditions and circumstances at any given time.