well...

So much information, ideas and criticism in one night! I sat there taking it all in not really knowing how to process it all. I don’t even know exactly what to write about there was so much I wanted to talk about. I liked most was that she gave hope, she gave concrete ideas on how to change what is going on and inspire the audience. There aren’t very many outlets out there that bring this subject to light but as a speaker, a writer, a journalist she invokes a lot of attention. What she is doing is what I feel Allessandro was doing in his article Reading the Past and she is living in the moment of crisis to truly understand and criticize what is happening so that we ourselves can dictate the outcome and not leave it in the hands of an other. So many things fascinated me last night and first was the government sing the shock doctrine to create a “blank slate” in Iraq and trying to turn Iraq which was an incredibly closed market into one of the most open markets in the world. Then the idea of what Disaster Capitalism is and how it works. From using a disaster to push unpopular views to pushing privatization. I think we can have amazing conversation today!