tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5694331076432216190..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: A New Political Meaning for Guy Fawkes’s FaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-5685273978323693012011-11-11T01:12:56.451-05:002011-11-11T01:12:56.451-05:00Thanks for the Guy Fawkes research. I liked your l...Thanks for the Guy Fawkes research. I liked your little series. <br /><br />I don't find anything weird about people protesting using the oppressor's own products. Is there anything about it that's unusual? The old Marxist saw about the capitalist selling you the rope you use to hang him - that'd be only one of many ready examples.Glenn Ingersollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-44910415039826055462011-11-10T17:34:13.592-05:002011-11-10T17:34:13.592-05:00By “Big Finance” I mean the financial-services ind...By “Big Finance” I mean the financial-services industry. <br /><br />Time Warner certainly has a lot of finances, but the company produces actual magazines, movies, television shows, books, &c. Some folks might not like “Big Media” and its political influence, but at least we can see the products of its work. <br /><br />The financial-services industry makes its money by moving money around, and that’s harder for outsiders to see and understand. Indeed, in some activities that led to the Bush-Cheney recession, it looks like <i>no one</i> really understood certain financial “products.” There are now many court cases charging that some were fraudulent. I think “Big Finance” by and large makes our economy more efficient, but it’s failed the larger society lately.<br /><br />It seems notable that Occupy Wall Street criticizes the “1%” in financial services but doesn’t express the same vitriol about people who earn very large salaries in entertainment. We can see what entertainers do, whether we like it or not. It’s harder to see the work of someone who helps to design a risky collateralized debt obligation and then short-sells it.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-83465427250960363852011-11-10T17:07:30.305-05:002011-11-10T17:07:30.305-05:00But wouldn't a Fortune 100 corporation be part...But wouldn't a Fortune 100 corporation be part of "Big Finance" almost by definition?Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-89925246056158400842011-11-10T17:01:42.552-05:002011-11-10T17:01:42.552-05:00The Occupy Wall Street movement is so inchoate and...The Occupy Wall Street movement is so inchoate and broad that I hesitate to identify any of its “enemies” beyond “Big Finance.”J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-37798689153190004742011-11-10T13:59:22.804-05:002011-11-10T13:59:22.804-05:00I love the irony that you point out that the Occup...I love the irony that you point out that the Occupy Wall Street folks wearing a "V For Vendetta"-styled Guy Fawkes mask are in reality utilizing a trade-marked image from Warner Brothers, a subsidairy of Time Warner Corporation. One of their enemies.John L Smith Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209064146960498237noreply@blogger.com