'The fracking struggle involves most of the giant corporations of the country, not just business and industrial corporations, but also law corporations and insurance corporations.
The whole corporate class and its vast usurping structures of governance and propaganda are behind fracking. The reasons are clear: the corporate class is committed to endless more. The fuel for endless more is constantly expanding energy.
So people opposing fracking for oil and gas and water are standing up not just to a few giant energy corporations, but to the entire corporate class, and to their vast corporate state, just like the anti-nukers of yore.
In New York, people are already organized in hundreds of groups. We think this legislation will help unify anti-frackers, so that one day in the not too distant, the State of New York will declare fracking, corporate frackers, and fracking-related activities to be Class C felonies.'
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the quote above is taken from an INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD GROSSMAN. the name probably doesn't ring a bell for any of u, even though he participated in three sequential workshops at the New York Green Fest gathering in Western New York 10 years ago this month that some of u attended, as did i. i probably didn't attend those particular workshops and even if i did i wouldn't have remembered the presenter's name. the only reason it was brought to my attention now is that by a convoluted process of research and curiosity i happened across this interview and just read it in it's entirety (link below).
it's great; in it he gets near the heart of american dystopia in his analysis of the fundamental flaws of it's founding and governance, citing, for example, how in many respects it was/is based upon the english monarchy/oligarchy form of government which the american revolution ostensibly overthrew. iow, how the american revolution, rather than being radical, was a case of replacing a distant dictatorship of elites with a nearby, 'homegrown' dictatorship of elites.
here's another excerpt from the interview:
'The authors of the US Constitution included no language in that plan of governance requiring the United States to remove all barriers to human liberty – to maximize liberty throughout the land.
They did craft language requiring the United States to remove all barriers to commerce – to maximize production and commerce throughout the land. To impose a national economy on communities throughout the land.
They certainly understood the concept of a strong, centralized federal government swimming in the preemption and prerogative authority of kings.'
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RICHARD GROSSMAN gave this interview in october 2011, just a couple months after speaking at western ny green gathering 2011. he was an author or co-author of a couple of books and a lecturer best known for his work challenging the legality of corporate authority. at this time, he was working on yet another book in this vein, but i doubt it was ever finished or published, as he died just a month later, nov. 22, 2011, the anniversary of jfk's assassination.
my point? death's a part of dystopia. it's the natural endpoint for all dreams, and dreamers.
https://ratical.org/corporations/CCRivRG1011.html
