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What we all, and your children, can look forward to.  All govt.s will follow this example and I don't see the current crop of citizens doing anything to stop it.

Amazing!

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 08:21:35 AM EST
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But it's difficult to find the evidence for any of this. this is street scuttlebutt.

Problem being that any journalist hwo tries to say this or, worse still, investigate and find proof, has a nasty habit of winding up dead. I think 6 died in suspicious circumstances during 2008.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 08:50:13 AM EST
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Absolutely understandable.  I look to my body, the device which is currently typing on this laptop, as an example.

My body is "successful" but definitely NOT a democracy.  My brain, i.e. the "government", runs the show absolutely, gets the best (glucose) of everything, is protected absolutely (blood/brain barrier, immune system tracking down foreign invaders or those pesky freedom fighters (cancers)), and frequently screws up under the influence of alcohol (self-induced) but gets away with it.  Again, a biologically successful system.  Like it or not our world society might be heading in that direction, and the only thing in its way may be extinction.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 09:01:52 AM EST
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Aaah - but the government doesn't run the show, and never has. Consciousness is after the fact, not before it.

Like the President of Your United States, consciousness knows only a very small amount of what is going on in 'government' because at each stage up the chain from field to White House, people are collecting, collating, analyzing, filtering, discarding and passing up data in the form of recommendations for action. The President may get two recommendations: it's not hard to be 50% right. That's why clowns can be Presidents. They are not really needed - except to accept and convey the decision to 'non-government'.

President of the State of Mind: "I've decided to have a cup of tea."

<mumbling in the audience> Well of course you have you prannie, we've been telling you that for 10 minutes.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 09:55:28 AM EST
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So the fact that wealth/influence/power is gradually migrating to a small (miniscule) percentage of the population is the result of ... happenstance ... the will of GOD ... good genes ... how does that work if the govt. and its cohorts aren't orchestrating things?  Or is it simply we get the govt. we deserve?  What did I do to deserve this, except coming to this out-in-the-boonies planet of course?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 10:22:30 AM EST
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I think we get the government we deserve - collectively.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 11:02:06 AM EST
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