On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net> wrote: > Even the so called free press is more often than not never truly free - due > to the political leanings of its editor and columnists say. So you might > come into the real world a bit. > > Also you do realize you godwins law'd this argument right? Comparing the GoI > for all its flaws to the nazi regime by bringing in jackboot type metaphors > just gets ridiculous
It seems rather appropriate to repeat what I wrote elsewhere on the web only a couple of days ago in the context of the Occupy Wall Street protests, maybe I should attach it to my emails as a standard disclaimer. <<< The powerful have always used force and violence to keep the powerless in check. This is the way of humanity. It has always been so, and will always be. The modern democratic wage slave is kept in check by mass media and its control over public consciousness. Failing to obey, and worse still disrupting the illusion will draw the worst of punishments. The machinery is expensive, and throwing the figurative spanner in the works will not be tolerated. It isn't soft hearted concern that makes the establishment shun brute force, but because deceit is so much cheaper and does not disrupt productivity. The only blue collar professional to witness a steady rise in numbers in recent decades is the security guard, rather curious isn't it? Questioning the capitalistic barons is heresy. Heretics shall be made an example of, and the obedient masses will do well to learn and be content to be distracted by the table scraps flung in their direction. Yes, one day, eventually, there will be an uprising, there always is. Every brutal lord makes the mistake of choking the great beast to the point of action, but the subsequent generations of overlords learn from those mistakes, that too is the way it always is. As long as there is imbalance in power the powerful will always be tempted to control the powerless. If the indoctrination efforts of the overlords were successful on you, then at this point what I've just said is being dismissed in your head as idealism, communism, utopia, foolishness, silliness or any of the numerous pejorative terms you've been taught to apply to such behavior. C'est la vie! >>>
