The Global Economic Problem in a Nutshell.

"What made you finally change?"

Fossen stopped for a moment and then laughed. "When I started educating myself on why farming no longer made sense. We basically used oil and aquifer water to temporarily boost the carrying capacity of the land, all for economic growth demanded by Wall Street investors. It's a crazy system that only makes sense when you foist all the costs onto the taxpayers in the form of crop subsidies that benefit agribusiness, and defense spending to secure fossil fuels. We're basically paying for corporations to seize control of the food supply and dictate to us the terms under which we live."

FreedomTM, by Daniel Suarte (243).

This is a great sequel, to another great book, Daemon. That tell the story of the collapse of our current global economic system, and the computer virus that may or may not save humanity. The books are scarily plausible, and the author knows what he's talking about since he's written software for the defense industry, banking, and others. I've been looking in to the agribusiness issue for a while now, and can say that his research there is good as well.

These books are a great story, and I will probably write a proper review once I finish this one, but they also show us clearly how agribusiness, food companies, defense contractors, cyber-security firms, private military contractors, pharmaceutical companies, and so on are linked to governments and vice versa, how little the general population knows about who is really in charge of what, and how little can be done about it. The story also gives us at least one model of how we can turn things around. The Daemon might be a bit extreme, which is why the guy who wrote it didn't trigger it's release until his death (he didn't want to spend his twilight years in Guantánamo Bay), but something has to give the grassroots movements a lever if we're ever going to move the world.

What scares me isn't so much that the public has been hornswoggled into paying the freight for the multinational corporations takeover of the world, it is that so few people seem to realize just how bad it is getting.

We are living on borrowed time in a dozen different ways, and if we don't start getting pro-active about these situations, we're screwed. Our children are screwed. the sins of the fathers will verily be punished through the generations to come.