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kittinSol -> RE: Freedom... (3/17/2010 11:23:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: CountrySong
Let's admit it folks - dispite all the "civilization" and "enlightenment" it all comes down to Us versus Them. (You can see that in most major city neighborhoods and our political system.) Them being anyone who has something that we want or has values that are different. If we can take it at a lower cost by buying it than fighting for it and taking it, then we will buy it.
What most people would really like is to have it given to them for free, that has been evident in the USA since the days the USA was first settled by Europeans. (Look up Jamestown).
Right now we have a government that believes in take from those who took the most and redistribute it. In a few years that will change somewhat but it will never go all the way back to freedom because the sheep had to be kept calm and if you cut benefits then the would bleet.
The simple truth is that the USA got stupid and lazy! We let another country buy us out - China. They control the purse strings. They are communist so guess where our government is headed - socialism.
You can wave all the rifles and handguns you want and shout USA is number One and freedom matters; but, a decent military force with modern weapons will kick your ass! (Yes I do own guns and use them and probably would be one to die fighting for my freedom.)
Personally, I like the Dali Llamas solution. He wrote that he is in favor of the Neutron bomb. It kills all life and leaves all of the assets intact. Clean and simple. I suppose you can do the same with biological weapons and it probably will happen.
If global warming is as serious as they say it is then we will see World War Three as countries battle for food, resources, and there religions. Also the events of the High Tech Singularity could trigger that war.
In the end you can bitch and moan all you want and nothing will change! It will all still be about who has the money and power. The sheep will only rise up when really pushed and if you keep them somewhat calm and fed they will be happy to be sheared. (Look at all the subs on here.) Our founding fathers knew this when the wrote the Decleration Of Independence - "all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"
So spend less time bitching and more time figuring out how you plan to adapt and protect your "US" from the "Them"
To me, you're "them". You cry for freedom but your discourse is about materialism and fear. Further from freedom you couldn't be.
~ Yoda
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