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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: SeanSean Date: Sep 19, 2008 23:05
> Sean wrote:
>> Best to wake up and smell the daisies growing in 2008. It's a different
>> world, with different people behaving very differently than in the past.
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>> Ponder on that if you wish.
> Seems like there's a word for when the government owns the business and
> the business owns the government. From early in the 20th century:
> "fascism".
It was also called the Monarchy .... or the Holy Roman Empire, or even
Catholicism, when the "priests/monks" owned everything including the Kings
in the West.
So, if you tossed a few things around you may see that it's more than just
20th century style fascism. It's more basic than that. Time to dust off
one's copy of the Republic by Aristotle and read the warnings there and by
Plato.
The King is dead, long live the King.
But the world and ideas are much broader and larger than just the West.
There's a whole world out there, and 6 billion people live on it. Most know
nothing about the Greeks, and they don't need to. :-)
Wall Street, is just a name. It only has the power that people are willing
to give over to it. The writing is therefore *on the wall*, perhaps, but I
doubt it. People are very slow learners!!!
I know, I'm one of them and speak from experience.
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