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Yes Jake S., but that's the method of the religion, not the remedy. The question was how can one combat a religion like austerity?

Like TBG says, a first step could be calling it a religion. The second is likely to be drilling TARA into everyone's awareness.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:00:37 PM EST
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How do you combat a religion? You wait for the religion to destroy the society and hope that people will have a crisis of faith as a result rather than doubling down and blaming the heretics for the disaster.

Is there another way?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:16:30 PM EST
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We must hope that there is -for the alternative is such a scary prospect.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:20:36 PM EST
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I recommend you fatten yourself up so you put on a good show at the stake.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:28:41 PM EST
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Historically, was there another way?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:39:16 PM EST
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Re: The gaping abyss of neoliberal (4.00 / 5)

You defeat it with another religion and then smash their temples, burn their sacred texts and so forth.

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by A swedish kind of death on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:02:33 PM EST
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Re: The gaping abyss of neoliberal (4.00 / 3)

And coopt their holidays.

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by A swedish kind of death on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:07:19 PM EST
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What are the neoliberal holidays?

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Jan 11th, 2012 at 02:44:11 AM EST
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Precisely.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 03:33:25 PM EST
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Is there another way?

(Thinking out loud)
Deprogramming on a massive scale, and TARA TARA TARA.
This takes access to media, which we don't have, which will be solved by the desire to make one of our own.

see viral, kopimi, entheogens, tribal gatherings usw.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:50:33 PM EST
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How was the transition to secular societies in Europe achieved, historically, and over what timescales?

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 12:58:27 PM EST
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the tools and timescales available today are quite different than through most of history.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:07:50 PM EST
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"This time is different"?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:13:03 PM EST
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Arab Spring? Occupy? Showing shoes to the Bundespräsident? (Not in the same category, but...)

The new level of mass protest in China, despite The Party?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:29:43 PM EST
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each time was different, though the underlying pattern remains.

this time it has to be very different, because it's the final reckoning, even by their own warped belief system.

this setup has defied evolution's gravity too long. time to mutate or die out...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 03:41:06 PM EST
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Fish know nothing of water.

It's mass two-way communication.

Anyone can know anything.

Align culture with our nature. Ot else!

by ormondotvos (ormond.otvosnospamgmialcon) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 10:37:15 PM EST
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can't track you on that comment, sorry!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jan 11th, 2012 at 12:34:46 PM EST
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I was commenting in my own elliptical fashion, on your statement above "this time it has to be very different."

The first line indicates that those in the culture who read history seem rarely to understand when things actually do change.

The rest indicate that what's really new is mass two-way communication. The Internet. It really is a big change, like transistor radios were. When they came out, everyone could get the news.

With the internet, now they can gossip about it, and foment change.

Sorry about the inscrutability. I get tired of plodding.

Align culture with our nature. Ot else!

by ormondotvos (ormond.otvosnospamgmialcon) on Thu Jan 12th, 2012 at 09:51:18 PM EST
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True, but I am not totally convinced that Atatürk is a desirable role model...

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:20:09 PM EST
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