HAHA, One friend reckons I'm one in 2 billion. He's competent enough to judge 
so.

adrian.


ornamentalmind wrote:
> I'm sure you are unique! ;-)
> 
> http://despair.com/individuality.html
> 
> 
> On Sep 25, 3:17 pm, adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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- Hide quoted text -
>> - Show quoted text -
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