"... On Sep 10, 6:10 am, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> I think the mass citizenry is simply a tool of an aristocracy that has > devised a financial mechanism by which they fleece the finest wool for > themselves and allow others to glean from the field whatever scraps > they can find. When they find themselves in a financial snafu they > simply use the citizenry for the bail out money because they know the > citizens aren't going to do anything because they are just a bunch of > schleps who need to eat. Truly we are the rat race working it's way > through the maze like in some Pavlovian experiment in response to > financial stimuli. > > "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." > Albert Einstein Okay, Slip. That's a valid but slightly mis-characterized perspective. Granted, the financial elite of the world live on our labor and consumption and to a certain degree control our lives by the choices that are made available. But if we weren't here and making enough money to buy our expensive luxuries and pleasures, the elite wouldn't have the goose that keeps laying the golden eggs. It's a symbiotic relationship with a larger percentage of the egg going to the few but that still leaves a lot of the egg to be split among us peons. And there's not a one of us who can say we're not better off today than fifty or a hundred years ago. Plus there's always the opportunity for each of us to accede to those gilt covered ivory towers. I think that in and of itself eliminates the Pavlovian aspect except for those who choose to live a bland, reactive Pavlovian existence.
