Goodie, I'm not unique, at least not fully so.
Yes, that's what the people need, but it would need a rattle snake type mind 
they don't have. 
They're still stuck in believing. Very hard to get rid of after being 
brainwashed at school

adrian

chazwin wrote:
> Fab - I could have written this myself.
> 
> On Sep 25, 10:19 pm, adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> chazwin wrote:
>>
>> Would you like my shorter than H.G. Wells History of the world?
>>
>> Once upon a time twe were hunters and foddgatherers. They were not much for 
>> accummulaing
>> goodies when we had to carry them along. So then arrived farming which needs 
>> a settled
>> existence.
> 
> That is, of course, where we made our first mistake. If you plant a
> seed you have to protect that land from animals, and humans.
> This is the point where the notion of owning land derives. Protecting
> land and farming are two distinct skills. This leads to
> specialisation, and the soldiers realise that they can control the
> farmers and the land too. Heirarchies develop to control the soldiers
> and and ideologies are necessary to mask inequalities - hence
> organised religions develop which reify and justify those
> inequalities.
> 
> So the farmers grew food and saved enough for winter and a few
> trinkets for the wife
>> and trading for tools. This was noticed by ex-hunter bands who thought that 
>> was a neat trck.
>> All they had to do is wait till harvest time and have their pick. So the 
>> farmers compromised by
>> offering one band shelter and food to keep away other thieves. That was the 
>> start or armies who
>> had a leader  who figured out he could have a fat living if he bullied the 
>> farmers.
>> That was the start of royalty and all that who in order to hang on to their 
>> armies had to
>> provide them with a fat living. That was not so bad as long as one king per 
>> territory existed.
>> But by then the army henchmen figured they could do a well as the boss, if 
>> they got rid of him.
>> That was the start of an aristocracy and political infighting and all that.
>>
>>         Who the heck did you think paid for Pharaohs building whole cities 
>> and gynormous palaces
>> stuffed with harems and all that? Anyhow the pastime caught on fast and so 
>> called civilisation
>> took off. The only change that happened since then is the number of thieves 
>> grew and grew and
>> grew. I think you can fill in the rest of the script without my help? Do you 
>> know about Bauer,
>> pawn broker and father of the Rothschild Dynasty, who bankrupted the 
>> aristocracy with the help
>> of royalty who did not like the barons much. How much do you image the 
>> Rothschilds and
>> relatives are worth after 3 odd centuries odd, making not just profits but 
>> doubling their money
>> and holdings quite regularly at often quite short notice. Ah well, what's 
>> next for breakfast?
>> Banks are allowed to lend out 16 times the money people stow there, probably 
>> more now.
> 
> What is needed now is a guy like Karl Marx to teach the poor farmers
> and exploited people that it is possible for them to re-take control
> over the bosses.
> 
>> adrian
> > 
> 



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