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#1342566 - 05/04/12 10:32 AM
Re: Occupy May Day
[Re: MeRightYouWrong]
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VM Smith
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Registered: 11/28/05
Posts: 34257
Loc: Reality
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You forget the marching banner, Comrade: "From each according to his means, to each according to his needs.".
Of course it wouldn't do to get rid of one bunch of successful producers, only to have them replaced by another. The goal is egalitarianism...they want everybody to be so poor that they all have to sleep in parks. Permanently...after all, this is an ongoing movement, and that's where it logically goes.
If it focused on yapping at corporatism/fascism, it would make sense, but they bark up the wrong tree, and go after corporations, and capitalism itself. What fools...what limited, blindered vision...those horses feel the bite of the spurs, but don't even have a clue about who's actually riding them.
I know...I neglected to work in the sheep metaphor, but that always makes me think of Michael Savage, which depresses me.
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John Hay (1872)
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#1342573 - 05/04/12 10:59 AM
Re: Occupy May Day
[Re: Chicago Jesus]
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MeRightYouWrong
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Registered: 06/29/11
Posts: 1478
Loc: Mountain of Truth
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In that picture I see everybody employed and no carbon emissions. I'm now sold on the concept.
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#1342580 - 05/04/12 11:46 AM
Re: Occupy May Day
[Re: VM Smith]
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Ayuveda
Senior Member
Registered: 04/05/10
Posts: 6367
Loc: Imagine
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You forget the marching banner, Comrade: "From each according to his means, to each according to his needs.".
Of course it wouldn't do to get rid of one bunch of successful producers, only to have them replaced by another. The goal is egalitarianism...they want everybody to be so poor that they all have to sleep in parks. Permanently...after all, this is an ongoing movement, and that's where it logically goes.
If it attacked corporatism/fascism, it would make sense, but they bark up the wrong tree, and go after corporations, and capitalism itself. What fools...what limited, blindered vision...those horses don't even know who's riding them.
Chill on your porch throne and bemoan your irrelevancy King Judgment. The youth you consider "fools" are making history on a path your tired nag can only dream to follow.
egal·i·tar·i·an·ism
noun \-ē-ə-ˌni-zəm\
EGALITARIANISM
1
: a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs
2
: a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people.
How sad you find it a principle worthy of riducule.
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#1342589 - 05/04/12 12:58 PM
Re: Occupy May Day
[Re: VM Smith]
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MeRightYouWrong
Senior Member
Registered: 06/29/11
Posts: 1478
Loc: Mountain of Truth
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Ayuveda wants equality for all, up until everybody starts exercising their equality individually. In other words, we can all be equal up to and until the point that an individual strays from the tow-line.
It's a Utopian fantasy to think we can transform society into a collective, where everybody has their equal role and puts for equal effort toward a common goal, while dismissing the notion that somebody(s) will find themselves more skilled/talented/innovative than the commoners and would want to elevate their power and importance "for the benefit of all". In the end, we would still wind up with a 1% ruling over the other 99%.
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