
cheers, Tom
keep it up

Yes, Tom, one can easily slough it off to tribalism, survival of the fittest, or animalistic tendencies, or whatever, but it's the CAPITALIZATION and MANIPULATION of these factors that 'certain members' (a minority I might add) of the species use that is of question.astroman wrote:nevertheless I'd like to disagree about 'the problem created over thousands of years'
you might as well paraphrase it as the human version of 'survival of the fittest' in a herd context
balance of power has always served to avoid conflicts - most animals (as they are commonly called, which I wouldn't subscribe to, btw) have methods like the proverbial 'baring of teeth'
The USA and the former USSR each had an arsenal of rockets
on a smaller scale a tribe wouldn't attack another if there wasn't a supposed advantage
from a point of survival tribes don't need to attack each other, but (afaik) they still do - everywhere in the world where such ancient cultures have survived.
I mean - not all do it, some may even avoid such conflicts completely, yet it happens more or less regularily.
the next stage is that tribes unite to 'create an advantage' - again not an unusual pattern in nature.
etc, etc through the ages ...
until you arrive in this century and it's intellectual, economic and political leaders.
if you look carefully, you'd hardly find any human action which is not related to a much older pattern that evolution developed even before this race existed.
cheers, Tom
If the facts themselves are considered sensationalism, then it can also be considered denial to not even consider the possibility that things are not as they seem on the surface.next to nothing wrote:Gary, thanks for the healthy discussions![]()
OK, first of all i would like to make one thing clear: I have NEVER defended these guys/woman (if you think so, please enlighten/quote me). Its probably just that i interpet the issue from another angle. but i like c ontext; i could rip a five-liner from orwell anytime, and if the reader hadn't read the book i could make it soun pretty scary as a "plan".
I have never put muchattention to the "bildenberg connection" i admit (the crown prince of norway married a single mother crfack whore). But i find your way of argument to be a rather self-destructive, mystification and enpowering way of argument. I mean, there IS a long way from the unhealthy commersialisation we have at this moment (halliburton/iraq etc), but to mysstify this into some holy grail secret hocuspocuss stuff ending in a matrix-like power pack is just dumbening down the debate.
Commercial powers have too much power. most of us know that. rich people stick together, as people in need do. its only more vulgar.
So i say fuck all the sensasionalist jibberish, say it for what it actually is, without putting too much revenue-generating marketing for moneymilking cunts in it, elect a proper president (and if that is "not possible", it should be more of an issue than americans not being able to have a colt in their linning).
people will allways strive for power and territory. just ask Cartman.
We all know, the rulers thought is the ruling thought.
yes, i'm aware of him. i live near the major deep water port in southern California, long Beach/Los Angeles and 25-30% of the containers bear his name.Immanuel wrote: Bonus question for Gary: You might have heard of Mærsk. He is the richest man in Denmark - and a very old one too. I belive he runs the biggest shipping company of the world. As I recall it, his father build it up from scratch. What would his connection to the thing be? His name does not appear on the list. I mean, the guy does have a quite powerful position within world trade of goods.
well, my thoughts were rather about the interactional part, but then as a sidenote...garyb wrote:mountain climbing, jet travel, electric razors, space flight, computer simulation of reality.....astroman wrote: if you look carefully, you'd hardly find any human action which is not related to a much older pattern that evolution developed even before this race existed.
I never understood why Kubricks 'Full Metal Jacket' was declared an anti-war movie - imho it's awefully promotional... or should it just be considered 'macabre'garyb wrote:see, George Orwell was, as are most of these high level scifi writers, an insider. check his and his family's history. the same for Huxley and H. G. Wells and Asimov(i've loved all their writings, of course!). there's even an official term for the kind of writing they do. it's called "predictive programming"(really!) and it's part of the way the herd functions. ...
People dont know WHY they do certain things... it just "happens" right ?siriusbliss wrote:all in all, the questions are:
Who's power do you live by?
What is real to you?
Who's life are you living?