On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:16:47 +0000, Andy Wainwright
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andrewricha...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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>Perhaps the word "penner" would be a better choice than "nationalist"-
>penning up the world's population so it can be better exploited by their
>rich overlords. Not preserving a multi-government world, but creating a
>world government based on the apartheid regime.
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Interesting term.
Sometimes past microcosms can illuminate
modern macrocosms. Consider the great
captains of industry and finance in late 19th
century America.
As retaining a trained, cheap, workforce was
good for their bottom line they arranged to trap
workers - underpaying them or even scheming
to keep them in perpetual debt to their bosses
so it became very difficult to leave a bad job.
Unions kind-of dealt with that ... but then the
unions became very corrupt and now most
are in it for themselves, not the workers.
Note too that in the 19th century there was a huge
need for bodies to put behind the machines. Mass
immigration was encouraged so the need could
be met. Today however ... well ... your job is always
just a heartbeat from being outsourced to China or
India ... assuming you weren't replaced by a robot
already. Now there's a surplus of workers, they
have little value, little clout and are easily replaced.
If "anybody" can do your job, well, that situation
traditionally equates to very low wages. Even the
unions can't help you now. If industry could figure
out how to beam 25% of the essentially useless
workers out into the vaccuum of space and blame
it on little grey aliens they'd do it ... so they would
not have to pay "welfare" just to keep them alive.
So, the same tricks used in the late 19th century
have been transcribed onto todays "globalized"
economy - and for similar reasons.
>So why are people so avidly supportive of such an obvious con and power
>grab? Again, like communism, it's jealousy- the belief that putting and
>keeping others down will make oneself better off.
It does. "Wealth" requires an unequal distribution
of money. Authority requires an unequal distribution
of power. If most people have less, what YOU have
is worth more.
Which is why we see this pattern repeated across
history and cultures. It works.
>In addition, some
>people are stupid enough to prefer a wealthier lifestyle in a less free
>community, due to the confused sense of priorities preached by the mass
>media.
"Less free" often means "better organized" and "more
efficient". While you may not have as many ways to
spend your money, if the most common necessities
and niceties become more plentiful then people will
be happy to accept "less free".
Of course there's no cap on this line of thinking ... there
is a significant danger of it proceeding to its logical
endpoint - slavery and micro-managing totalitarianism.
As for the mass media ... it's wholly owned by the power
elite and serves THEIR purposes first and foremost.
>Unfortunately, a rather disturbing truth was spoken by a
>political great from the past- "the irony is that those who favour money
>and comfort above freedom will lose those too".
Most of The System was described quite well by
Machiavelli centuries ago. The heirs of power still
use the same tricks - they've just become better
at it, have CNN and FOX to alter reality to suit
their needs.
And finally ... if after 12,000+ years of "civilization"
The People STILL haven't caught on to the games
their leaders play ... well ...... they're just never
gonna.