In 1987 Dines was tasked with posing as an anti-capitalist protester, feeding intelligence to his handlers in a secret unit called the special demonstration squad (SDS).
The brilliant brains of students and geeks, businessmen and scientists, angel investors and venture capitalists are feeding and thriving off each other, sparking the kind of electricity one imagines filled the air of northern England during the Industrial Revolution.
The press, however, accuses the venture capitalists for feeding it baloney on rye.
The press, however, accuses the venture capitalists for feeding it bologna on rye bread.
A clear narrative had formed: the corpulent capitalists were feeding off the workingman's art, but the proles wouldn't stand for it.
The all-consuming engine driving this process is an ever-expanding capitalist economy, fed by scientific research and the latest technologies.
The world's venture capitalists, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s, are now looking around for the next one.
One notable exception, M. T. Anderson's merciless and very clever satire of late-capitalist complacency, "Feed," has information (mostly advertising) piped right into people's brains; the novel's narrator thinks of the laptop era as being "like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe".
Then I came to the idea that climate change could be a kind of a "people's shock," an answer to the shock doctrine – not just another opportunity by the disaster capitalists to feed off of misery, but an opportunity for progressive forces to deepen democracy and really improve livelihoods around the world.
Perhaps this might even help tilt the mass of the people away from the Bolsheviks and toward Western capitalists who were feeding them.
