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 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
