>>29
Yeah, well you're preaching to the choir there. Personally, I reckon it's better to be a whore than a slave, so I have skills that I use to make money. I work overseas so I can avoid taxes, I don't own property, or a car, or anything that connects me to the system except a passport(or perhaps two), I prepare myself to fight when enough of the slaves figure out what's going on, and I teach. Unfortunately, the truth of one of my favorite quotes keeps ringing in my ears: If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I would have freed thousands more.
Harriet Tubman
I also look for a way to move
forward. I appreciate the enthusiasm of those who "wave the flags of discontent", but I'm getting old, and I've seen the same old shit rhetoric and hyperbole for a long time now and know that it often does as much harm as good. Anarchy, laissez faire capitalism, and the Jeffersonian model are clues, not answers. They've had their shots and failed, so to think that they are the answer, that moving backwards is the answer, is foolish. They are, like statism, democracy, nationalism, capitalism, marxism, and even corporatism, only part of the answer. Factors in the equation that will solve for the next system.
What really pisses me off is that every time I start to try to solve it, some idiot starts yapping about utopian idealism. The slaves have actually been convinced that the pursuit of a better system is a fools errand. What if the framers of the US Constitution had believed that? Trying to design the best possible society is not utopian. When I set out to build a house I begin with the most perfect design I can come up with, given the materials and techniques I have to work with. I know that in the end, I'll have used up quite a few tubes of caulk, but I try god dammit, I try. And it bears repeating. The kind of thinking that brought us to this point, is not going to get us out of it. Which brings me back to
>>6