Thai floods vs. 'Greek Debt Crisis'

[opebo]

Today I was watching the Thai news, which was focused on the floods, and then switching over to BBC for the Greek debt blather.

I remarked to my Thai friend 'which one seems like a real crisis? Look at Greece, the weather looks beautiful, nothing wrong with the streets or buildings, and yet after all the world considers the Greek situation far worse than the Thai one.'

Think about it folks - Greece and the Eurozone have the same real physical circumstances as before the capitalist crisis, as does the rest of the EU, and the US, and the whole world.  This is all just a matter relative position in a societal project.  The Thai crisis by contrast is a real one - having a real effect upon physical capacity.

The face that the rebuilding efforts in Thailand will be no problem, and the fact that these struggles over 'moral hazard' and relative position inherent in the Greek crisis should reveal all you need to know about capitalism, gentlemen.

[opebo]

Precisely, Boss. What is the 'problem' is always related to and defined by the power hierarchy.  The fact is that we have no problem with scarcity (one evidence of this is just how easy it is for even a middle-income country to deal with and bounce back from a natural disaster), but rather with a system of control.  The enemy is other people, not any 'conditions' or 'events'.

[opebo]

the environmental crisis throws a bit of a wrench in this but for now the logic still holds: 'other people' are future generations.

What the heck do future generations have to do with it?  The rich are the enemy, BT.

[opebo]

Thais do have a way of making everything look beautiful, don't they?