Inquiring Futurists Want to Know:
by
Bibble
06/01/2008, 4:58 PM #
1. Why are Worker/Labor issues (pensions, declining wages, trade policy, health care, child care, etc.) assigned predominately to Wall Street reporters? Why are the viewpoints of impacted workers rarely heard? And if they are heard, why are they packaged into such cliché, demeaning and stereotyped conveniences such as "Kitchen Table Politics," "Main Street Economics," "Blue Collar Blues," and the beloved "War on the Middle Class" by writers and reporters who obviously find the perspectives of the working class (of which they are most certainly not members of) charming, but clearly out of touch with 'the times' and of no real consequence to the lives of most of the people they associate with (who also happen to be who those writers and reporters assume their audience to be – because workers, of course, are uneducated, don't care and don't read newspapers or blogs)?
2. Is "The Knowledge Economy" a good, service, or a line of bull? A Green Economy? Is it an indoctrinated, blindly accepted, conveniently framed excuse to exclude those who can't afford to go to college (or don't want to) from any hope of stability, prosperity or realization of their dreams? Bluntly, what are we to do with those who, according to the logic that flows from the Knowledge Economy's foundational assumptions, are 'too dumb' to participate?
3 Given its striking congruences to the War on Terror (socially, economically, philosophically), why does the War on Drugs get an absolutely free pass from the mainstream press?