by Free » Tue 11 Apr 2006, 00:39:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'F')ree--How you blather on. Concision, dear boy. Concision.
One hardly needs a star chamber if they have legions of willfully ignorant intellectuals happy to hop on board any new ideological bus willing to pick them up and pay their fare.
Consider the "wisdom of the free market" meme. Although it's abundantly clear that globalization has created more poverty than wealth, it's been a piece of cake convincing everyone in the winner's circle that everyone benefits. Social engineering and propaganda campaigns designed for those who will benefit from certain beliefs are a snap.
Now...run along.
No thanks I prefer to blather on, logorrhea is my rhetorical weapon of choice...
The free market meme and the free market itself is a wonderful example of how control is neither necessary nor possible. It only works so well because it's efficient and actually beneficient for the majority of the players until a certain point, and there is no need for propaganda or illusionary carrots if there are actually carrots hanging from the sticks, and once in a while you get a carrot. Within these parameters it's easy to convince somebody.
You could just as well consider yourself powerful if you say "Let it be light" every morning...
Most of us here know it's a ponzi-scheme, and that a certain point it will inevitably collapse. Such is the nature of exponential growth.
However, do the "elites" know, intend or even plan this actively? I would think certainly not. Most of them are ignorant in their shortsighted greed.
The exponential accumulation of their wealth will actually hurt them the most in the end, because it is them that profit the most of the status quo, that's why they would uphold it if they could, but alas they are powerless to stop the juggernaut, nor do they even see it coming.
These "elites", how long have they been in the saddle now? 100 years? 200 years? That's nothing in historical terms. They will be a footnote in the books of the future elite, until they themselves will fall.
It's all a game, and there are winners, but they change, and certainly don't make the rules. Nature does.