Typical left-wing elitist attacks on capitalism and proletariat stupidity. Platt
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM, khaledsa <[email protected]> wrote: > > DMB > > You point about the social inequality is right on. Yes the game is > already rigged. > > I think the reason Wilson used the term equitable, is to differentiate > between the gains attained by hard work. Being all equal in a level > field, the 'A' i earn in a class shows the hard work I put in as compared > to the student who got a 'C'. If I fairly and squarely earn my mansion, > that does not mean every one is entitled to a mansion to live in, At the > same time, if I am fortunate enough to live in one, I should be keeping > an eye out through civic involvement to make sure everyone has a roof > over their head. Or at least has the opportunity to put a roof over their > head. > > Back to your point about the system being rigged, here is one of my > favorite passages form George Carlin: > ===================================================================== > There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the > same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any > better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the > owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about the real owners > now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control > things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The > politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of > choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. > They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and > control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the > Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the > judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so > they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. > They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year > lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. > They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell > you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens > capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, > well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested > in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s > right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a > kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a > system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want > that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient > workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the > paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these > increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the > reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that > disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for > your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They > want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall > Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from > you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club > and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s > the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long > when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the > head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what > to buy. The table has tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems > to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white > collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. > Good, honest, hard-working people continue — these are people of modest > means — continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck > about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck > about you. They don’t care about you at all! At all! At all! And nobody > seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. > The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the > big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every > day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the > American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it. > > here is the youtube link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cz4vcQKWfA > > ====================================================================== > > > dmb says: > > > > That's not true. In that context "equal" and "unequal" is all about > > fair and unfair treatment. In that context "equality" means equal > > treatment under the law, equal opportunity in civic society, which > > means nobody gets excluded arbitrarily from schools and jobs and > > stuff. > > It seem that sometimes people are against "equality" precisely > > because of this kind of misunderstanding. I mean, social equality is > > mistakenly believed to mean that everyone is identical to everyone > > else. They take social "equality" to mean nationwide "uniformity" or > > "conformity". This converts a term denoting "fairness" or "justice" > > into a term denoting "totalitarianism" or even "the Borg". Yikes! > > That's not even close! > > When you're talking about weights and measures, "equal" does mean > > "identical" because two cups equals one pint. But when we say Adam > > and Steve were treated equally, we mean the treatment was fair and > > just. > ____________________________________________________________ > Diet Help > Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=mG3Jqd_25tBrioTPiTb-RgAAJ1BoN5MIA846iJgpKACKCvEMAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA= > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
