(2010-03-15) Carson Olbermann Vs Small World

Kevin Carson notes Keith Olbermann's ridicule of SmallWorld/Resilient Community thinking. For Olbermann, anyone suggesting the possibility of such a voluntary welfare state, based on self-organization and mutual aid, is by definition a right-wing shill. Olbermann went on, in rather heated language, to dismiss such neighborly help as a relic of the same age as the barn-raising and the shucking bee. In modern, progressive societies, people turn to “their” governments as a matter of course for the relief of sickness and poverty.