So what you’re saying is that a system based upon perverse incentives is going to produce perverse results? Listen, there’s no running from this. If you live in the U.S., you’re in it. And unless you’re the government or a VIP, no amount of bootlicking will save you from it. So your choices are obsequiousness or the other thing. The other thing isn’t pretty, but it’s better than slavery, I can assure you.
Brian... Had to look up "obsequiousness" but "The other thing" is just guessing that you may mean revolution? Yes, you have identified what I feel is the most pervasive imposition on our existence, slavery. If you depend on a job to keep a house over you, you are a slave to the empire, ever if you happen to own part of it. I'm still not sure if I understood the gist of all your comments, but in general what I'm suggesting is that we are all saves to money, and since the total lack of money puts your well-being in jeopardy from the rest of us, MONEY spells better survival odds, politicians included.
“The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say, the urban dweller.” ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
"Thomas Jefferson thought the only free people were self-sufficient farmers." I agree!, most especially if they lived far enough outside the boundaries and spyglasses of authorities.
So what you’re saying is that a system based upon perverse incentives is going to produce perverse results? Listen, there’s no running from this. If you live in the U.S., you’re in it. And unless you’re the government or a VIP, no amount of bootlicking will save you from it. So your choices are obsequiousness or the other thing. The other thing isn’t pretty, but it’s better than slavery, I can assure you.
Well said!
Brian... Had to look up "obsequiousness" but "The other thing" is just guessing that you may mean revolution? Yes, you have identified what I feel is the most pervasive imposition on our existence, slavery. If you depend on a job to keep a house over you, you are a slave to the empire, ever if you happen to own part of it. I'm still not sure if I understood the gist of all your comments, but in general what I'm suggesting is that we are all saves to money, and since the total lack of money puts your well-being in jeopardy from the rest of us, MONEY spells better survival odds, politicians included.
Thomas Jefferson thought the only free people were self-sufficient farmers.
“The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say, the urban dweller.” ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
He did not THINK it, he KNEW it!
"Thomas Jefferson thought the only free people were self-sufficient farmers." I agree!, most especially if they lived far enough outside the boundaries and spyglasses of authorities.
Like me. Hidden in plain sight.
You'll find I've been screaming "the other thing" for years now.