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jtuck004

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11. I don't either. We breed the same ones, but some choose to act as if stupid

Reply to tech3149 (Reply #10)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:25 PM

Jul 2015

is a desirable state. And we seem to have a newly rising segment of the culture that freakin' celebrates it.

They not only made a choice, they were, and are, supported in it by others.

I do think a part of this is the deliberate tinselization of information, as you said, to distract. But that couldn't happen to people who insisted on good info.

And, generally, people seem to be wanting to hear less all the time.

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The end of capitalism has begun [View all] Ichingcarpenter Jul 2015 OP

Interesting article but I think the author gets as many things wrong as he gets right tech3149 Jul 2015 #1

I thought it was a start on looking at Ichingcarpenter Jul 2015 #2

I found this one of the most interesting articles I've read in a long time. snot Jul 2015 #4

Absolutely right, they have figured it out but we let that happen. tech3149 Jul 2015 #6

And Scott Walker proudly boasts of this passiveporcupine Jul 2015 #8

That's what media control gets them. snot Jul 2015 #14

"I remember one of those weekly mags telling me" < they presume that having learned things we would jtuck004 Jul 2015 #7

I don't think we really breed a bunch of stupid people tech3149 Jul 2015 #10

I don't either. We breed the same ones, but some choose to act as if stupid jtuck004 Jul 2015 #11

I've been down this road with friends and relatives too often tech3149 Jul 2015 #12

We make citizens - in how we provide opportunity for their parents, and then the schooling jtuck004 Jul 2015 #13

I'd just like to add, snot Jul 2015 #15

KNR FlatBaroque Jul 2015 #3

Peripherally relevant: snot Jul 2015 #5

Any article like this ... nikto Jul 2015 #9

It certainly is realistic, considering that the French revolution was agains feudalism eridani Jul 2015 #16