On 6/27/2019 2:32 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Right. We have talked a lot about this and you know that I agree.
I would add: the most powerful institutions are the ones that are
invisible. The currently dominant religion in the Western world has no
name. There is no easy way to talk about it, and that makes it very
hard to attack it. It's very powerful: one can claim to be Catholic,
or Protestant, or Atheist, and superficially participate in the
rituals of these groups, but the actual beliefs underneath this
superficial layer are very similar and almost impossible to question
without sounding like a lunatic. I don't see this as some conspiracy,
I believe that human-created "social organisms" suffer the same sort
of evolutionary process as biological organism, and likewise aquire
highly sophisticated survival strategies.
You mean something like this: https://steadystate.org/
Brent
It's the same with empires. For example: one of the things that
happens when an empire initiates its downward trajectory is that it
stops being invisible. I leave historical and contemporary examples as
an exercise for the reader. I have in mind both geographical and
corporate empires.
Telmo.
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