So I’m reading a fascinating and sometimes disturbing book right now by Naomi Klein called “The Shock Doctrine”. I am only a few chapters in, but so far it is an engrossing breakdown of the tactics used by corporations and governments to yield personal gain from public tragedy. In a nutshell, the book illustrates how these superpowers have utilized and implemented what the author terms “disaster capitalism”, which basically is the aggressive action taken on a “shocked” society in the wake of a large-scale disaster, whether man-made or natural, for corporate gain or government privatization (the lines between which continue to move toward non-existent). Here is Naomi Klein on “Countdown with Keith Olberman” talking about the book..
