Jack and the Beanstalk:A Political Reading of an Old, Wise Folktale, Part I

BCM Enews article, 2010).  A Sabbath Economics exegesis of the famous European peasant tale about how great wealth corrupts—even poor people.

In both ancient and modern civilization, the elite control the media. Thus it is the news, the public myths, the histories and the philosophies of the haves that are broadcast and preserved. The perspectives of the have nots are marginalized, suppressed and disappeared from history. This means that the points of view of the majority of folk who are not elites, past and present, are difficult to come by, especially for people of relative privilege like us. The poor are not the subjects of our formal education, much less movies, television shows, popular books or political speeches—or if they are, they are relentlessly caricatured, scapegoated or romanticized.

Full Article HERE.