[mmasters]

The Constitutional Republic has been given up on long ago, tons of laws and executive orders go against it. People that run for important office are all preselected by elite groups like the CFR. People have given up many of their rights in the name of the war on terror, have let the companies, banks and elite interests take over the media and most everything...and they don't seem to know or care much about it all! People think their vote still matters or are too busy playing their x-box, watching porn, tv programming, youtube, seduced by smartphones, giving up all their personal information on facebook, letting google spy and track their online activity for marketing and other purposes, the list goes on and on...

If people are so dumb that they are not able to see what is really going with US (and the rest of the world similarly for that matter), do they really deserve to be free any longer?

I don't particularly welcome our new overlords but I'm not going to stand in between them and the rest of the idiot population. I say if the people allow themselves to be subverted into slavery then they don't deserve freedom. And I'll make do what best I can to insulate myself away from the rest of the fools and preserve what freedom I can for myself.

[dsula]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'I')f people are so dumb that they are not able to see what is really going with US (and the rest of the world similarly for that matter), do they really deserve to be free any longer?
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[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dsula', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmasters', 'I')f people are so dumb that they are not able to see what is really going with US (and the rest of the world similarly for that matter), do they really deserve to be free any longer?
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[JohnRM]

Daniel Quinn said that you only need to walk away. That's all.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnRM', 'D')aniel Quinn said that you only need to walk away. That's all.

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JohnRM', 'D')aniel Quinn said that you only need to walk away. That's all.

[PrestonSturges]

I told my mother that the last generation that'll have an education, medical care, or retirement. She's a life long long Republican, but she thinks the GOP is now run by buffoons, perverts, and outright criminals. The Germans were swept away by conspiracy theories, xenophobia, anti-intellectualism, and propaganda. But the Germans were individually very religious and honorable, and we aren't, so we could actually fall a lot farther and faster than they did.

I told Mom there is always the option of just switching teams since none of this is going to resolved in my lifetime. The most cynical thing I could think of was to join a church, like a really crappy politicized Bible Belt church, just to wallow in the vapid mean-spiritedness and watch society degenerate in real time.

[gollum]

In light of the way we embrace everything from seat belt laws to gun control to torture in the name of being safe I'd say no as a people we're not worthy of freedom.

[davep]

How in God's name did you manage to shoe-horn seatbelt laws into that little diatribe?!

[Cloud9]

We don't get a choice about being born we should get a choice on how we die.

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'W')e don't get a choice about being born we should get a choice on how we die.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'W')e don't get a choice about being born we should get a choice on how we die.

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cloud9', 'W')e don't get a choice about being born we should get a choice on how we die.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'b')ut it ultimately comes down to the individual (or the individuals parents if they're young enough) on whether or not to protect themselves with a safe car or wearing a helmet.

[vision-master]

“Matriarchy is not the opposite of patriarchy, with women dominating and controlling men. It is based on balance between the masculine and feminine and harmony with nature.” Men of high status had women’s wigs, men and women together side by side with woman’s arm around the man. It was more of a rule of equality. I think we, humans, have been used to and only seen patriarchal ways since the times of patriarchal Egypt, and it’s coming to a head. Today's global society is so service-to-self and war-mongering that I think the reaction pretty soon will be more matriarchal, not as in there being a woman president or something necessarily, but more service-to-others, more cooperation, consideration of others -- a grace. I think Malick knows this grand ebb and flow of humanity throughout time. Things go in cycles.


http://moviedecon.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '�')��Matriarchy is not the opposite of patriarchy, with women dominating and controlling men. It is based on balance between the masculine and feminine and harmony with nature.” .....Things go in cycles.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')he Nazis were largely driven by the sexual dysfunction of the religious but brutal rural patriarchal family structure of 1900 Germany

[PrestonSturges]

Yes but the Nazis pandered heavily to the Christians from 1922 to 1935, promising a "spiritual" movement of "positive Christianity." And the 1935 Nuremberg Law outlawing intermarriage with Jews can be traced back before 1880 when one million Germans (mainly rural anitsemitic christian groups) signed petitions demanding laws outlawing intermarriage. That sure reminds me of DOMA!

The other thing we have is the declining wages, record profits, abolishing unions, and the loss of the social safety net that German business enjoyed under Hitler. The Germans really clinched power not through popularity but by giving every white person a minimum wage, and giving private employers control over each worker's work permit papers. They could not change jobs, and unemployment was made illegal since the unemployed could be sent to work camps (although they usually came back). After the hyperinflation, everyone shuffled around saying "At least we all have jobs now." For the workers, things went downhill from there.

[mmasters]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'I') think the reaction pretty soon will be more matriarchal, not as in there being a woman president or something necessarily, but more service-to-others, more cooperation, consideration of others -- a grace.

[vision-master]

So the patriarchal continues until Jesus saves us........