On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Sasha Pachev <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to address the point mentioned earlier that you cannot have > conspiracy with more than 2 people for very long. > > I grew up in a country (Soviet Union) where conspiracy involving millions > lasted for at least 70 years, and did not quite die when the West began to > prem > > My story is the story of millions in the former Soviet Union. Wicked people > have a unique ability to form conspiracies and pull others into them. > > I liked what you had to say about conspiracies Sasha. I try to avoid conspiracy as an explanation for bad things that happen in this world, many times stupidity serves just as well, but I do think that citizens of this country have lost what I consider to be a healthy fear of the concentration of power and a jealous guarding of our liberties. The nature of the financial sector of this country is an excellent example of this. I think that people should be up in arms over the way this last financial crisis was handled. These scumbags who ran the largest financial institutions in this country should have been ridden out of town on a rail for taking this country to the brink. Instead, they were allowed to receive billions of dollars in bonuses with a wink and a nod while continuing to do business as usual. If these financial corporations are "too big to fail" why are they allowed to get even bigger; why aren't they being reduced in size? If this isn't a conspiracy what is? -- "The legitimate purpose of formalization lies in the reduction of the tacit coefficient to more limited and obvious informal operations; but it is nonsensical to aim at the total elimination of our personal participation." -- Michael Polanyi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
