‘The Wire’ creator David Simon nails it.
The most interesting comments are on the scandalous and immoral state of contemporary capitalism and how it is damaging everyone.
More video from guardian.co.uk that bit there puts me off listening to it :laugh:
Interesting comments - but although I heard a lot of appropriate lament of the current situations, I didn’t hear much in the way of a different path.
As for the position that people in inner cities turn to drugs (both for “recreation” and also as a business), he speaks as if a 50% unemployment rates in young males somehow is the justification for that. I’m sorry, but that is just BS. Spain has the same unemployment rate NATIONALLY in young people - 50%. Not everyone is turning to drugs as a business, or as recreation.
The first step is making the victims understand they are exactly that… there is no point in suggesting how an alcoholic can cahnge, until you get him to understand he is …
Now change alcoholic for “consumer” with the understanding that consumption is the addiction.
NINJA… you have my undying respect my friend
I can’t comment on his views on drug policy as I don’t know enough about it - but I think his assessment of the ultimately disastrous effects of the last thirty years of neo liberal capitalism are spot on.
Notice how he said that he was puzzled by the sentimental eulogies for Reagan and recently Thatcher - and that their policy of de-regulation has resulted in horrendous inequality and ultimately economic disaster.
I’m old enough to remember the left predicting that this would happen back in the 80’s - that neo liberalism was a con job designed to reward the minority and exploit the majority - that it was basically a huge ponzi scheme that would produce illusory initial prosperity but ultimately end in disaster.
Capitalism can work - if set within a robust regulatory system that protects the financial class from themselves (principally their natural instinct for greed and corruption) and that protects the rights of ordinary people to live in a market system that actually represents the realities of supply and demand and is not subject to the manipulation and corrupt practises of an unfettered financial elite.
Thanks mate - I don’t deserve praise - it’s quite obvious that things are totally fubared (edited)