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Originally Posted by mental4astro
WOW, I love this thread!
Govenments may be elected by the people, but they work for big business, placating the populous as they go. Hence the prices, food standards, fuel standards, etc, discrepencies.
What a thread!
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I do not believe that this is wholly true. The populace is placated ONLY to the point where we don't overthrow the rich and powerful. In today's modern world, something like the French revolution would never happen, because those instigators would be labelled terrorists and hunted down (and then unfairly imprisoned on weak evidence [if any], and tortured as well - a point of example - Guantanamo Bay). There's the old story of the horse and the carrot...
I don't care one iota about business - I care about the rights of the MAJORITY of the population. Ever heard the saying "majority rules"? It seems that this doesn't apply to the rich and the powerful.
Call me anarchist if you will, but our current socio-economical setup is not sustainable. Out of chaos comes order, out of order comes chaos - that is the way of nature.
Dave
PS Actually, I'm probably classifiable as a extreme left, pagan, anarchist and chaos lover. It's why many of my beliefs are unpopular with the general populace, who really, are just sheep.