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tech3149

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12. I've been down this road with friends and relatives too often

Reply to jtuck004 (Reply #11)

Fri Jul 17, 2015, 06:34 PM

Jul 2015

The common thread is either they don't feel they have the time to make sense of it all or it's just too damned emotionally painful. I try very hard to cut them some slack but considering where I came from it is a bit hard. Since I don't have a life I can afford the time and effort to be more informed than most.
Choosing to be poorly informed is still a choice and to some extent I can understand the logic. I guess I'm the one who can't go back into Plato's cave.

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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