@timparrique @AimeTim 1/2 Forty years ago, investigating a white hot trail of systemic, criminal connivance at stratospheric levels of international finance, the UK's Official Secrets Act shut me down. Then again, in complete defeat, my initiation: I'd seen the truest face of global political economy.
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Copy of two tweets: “Who will police the police?” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? #juvenal I can answer that question. No one. My first career? Journalism, with a specialist interest in oversight of the international financial system. 2/2 “Notes and References 10. Nick Routledge, ‘How The Bank of England Failed The JMB Test’, Euromoney, February 1985, pp. 49–56. Google Scholar”
@nils_gilman I recall a similar epiphany, sitting at a typewriter, in 1984. I got up, wandered down a corridor, knocked on a door, opened it, confronted a senior journalist, asked how many folk he reckoned truly grokked the global financial system. He paused, pondered. 'About 150', he said.
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3/ I don't wish to sound like a polemical ass, but the structures of consciousness and power dictating the defining story about the nature of reality 'own' the global attention span into the bargain. One Media Ecology, monetized and weaponized, in toto. How do we deal with this?