pimpnamedraypeat
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We get far more choices than televison channels or burger vs burrito. But those choices are important too. Milton Freidman explained the importance of human choice, even in the context of choices that seem insignificant or tripe, in his most well known book.
What you are doing here is microscoping in on some of the failuires of our system, or of people taking advantage of a system and corrupting its benefits, and neglecting to recognize the overwhelming benefits. I would bet you personally rely on an inummerable amount of inventions and luxuries provided exclusively by american freedom and democracy, but just take them for granted. From your pencil, cars, concrete, nutrition, etc there are so many reasons to love freedom and america but your spoiled contrarian nature won't let you...
Milton freidman is Jewish. But I'm glad he explained the importance of choices.
How does american freedom and democracy lead to inventions?? The post WW2 tech boom that america experienced was based off the stealing of intellectual property from Germany. Millions of patents and inventions in rocketry (NASA), aeronautics (beoing, lockhead) synthetics (plastics), german engineering (factories, mass production, etc), not to mention german medicine which made america one of the best places to go for surgery. American medicine sucked before ww2.
The post war boom was based off theft. Please look it up and stop breathing in the propaganda.
America stole german patents, research and inventions and then make it legal to be used by private companies (ge, boeing, halliburton, lockheed, amoco, etc etc etc). Please look it up.
Concrete was in use as far back as ancient greece. Americans did not invent nutrition but they did invent the pyramid (which is upside down.) The pencil was invented long before america existed.
Cars were invented in germany.
But I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Apollo moon landings were faked on Earth and that Building #7 was brought down with explosives. Also, JFK was shot from the front.
A significant amount of the things they teach you in school and on TV are fake.
JFK is a joke.
Yes! Great summary. This is divide & rule in action. Everything promoted is polarised - nuanced opinions are disappearing.
Does it really matter if it's Jesuits, Jews, Freemasons, Scientologists, or reptilians at the top of the pyramid? Isn't this just another confusion put out there for people to argue over? I think our focus should be on solutions, not the problem.
I agree. getting people to fight over the problem is another tactic.
As far as solutions I have a couple.
- Complete land ownership
- Decentralization of necessities (food, water, electricity, gas)
- Decentralization of music and culture
- Decentralization of administration
"To be effective, the abuse of power presupposes the anonymity of the oppressor or the anonymity of the oppressed. Despotisms fail when unmistakable faces confront each other."
- Removal of anonymous administration.
“There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon. Anyone would be a hero who should quell the monster.”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason (New York: Prometheus Books, 1998), p.145.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason (New York: Prometheus Books, 1998), p.145.
- Racial desegregation.
- Communal living of genetically similar people with communal gardens and communal machinery (why does everyone need to have their own lawnmowers that sits unused for 99% of it's lifetime).
- Actually communities preclude a significant amount of cultural and genetic similarities. This leads to higher trust and altruism.