On Aug 24, 9:39Â am, Bret Cahill
aol.com> wrote:>>>>When a wealthy famous celebrity pretends he's not a part
>>>>of "the club," (i.e. the owners of America), all you can do
>>>>is laugh. It's an ironic version of the liar's paradox. Those
>>>>rich wealthy bastards don't care about you, says the rich
>>>>wealth bastard. Yeah, and he does.
>>> Did he inherit his wealth like most of the rich have done or did he
>>> make it on his own?
>> What difference would it make?
>
> Georgists make a distinction between living off the product of human
> labor and living off of ownership of geo resources.
Yeah, yeah. We know. Heard it all before. It's a mantra,
after all. It gets repeated.
>> Many of the wealthy
>> bastards who are selected to be the choices for the
>> electorate, about whom he was talking when he
>> claimed "they don't care about you," made their own
>> money as well.
>
> Some by selling cigs.
And some by selling liquor. You point is?
Fortunately, Americans saw the folly of the religious
left's Prohibition back in the thirties. Let's hope the
religous left never makes a comeback, because as
bad as the religous right may be, the religious left is
worse. They are just as purtianical, and they also
want to suck your wallet dry.
>>> I don't see Carlin as being part of any club. He wasn't the type.
>> I don't see it as a literal club, anyway. I see it as a
>> projection.
>
> DeTocqueville wrote that the rich in a democracy had no club.
>
> Of course, democracy ain't gonna happen in a country where some are so
> ignorant they think a gun is an individualist "pocket veto."
We have people who do believe in ignorant things:
9-11 was an inside job,
tax cut recessions,
W's admin will be tried as war criminals,
UFOs,
Creation science,
Jimmy Carter high-tax economic booms,
levelling wealth,
gun control reduces crime,
and marijuana is worse than alcohol,
and somehow democracy survives.
Hey, back in FDR's day, there were even more creationists
than there are now.
>> Anyway, he was talking about the "owners."
>
> Georgists talk about _land_ owners.
Georgists are all about _talk_. If all you do is write
position papers about Georgisdopia, though, where's
that git you? When the Georgists git pushed too far,
do they drink purple Kool-Aid in the Jimmy Carter
stagflation jungle?
>> As a rich
>> wealthy player in the Entertainment Industry, which has
>> the greatest interest in dumbing down the public, since
>> a more critical public might require entertainment that
>> requires more thought to produce, he is one of the owners.
>
> The owners wouldn't want it to slip out that Republicans only want you
> to work for free.
>
> Not even as a joke.
Yes, that's why the black helicopters are on their way
to your compound, right now, with their tinfoil-piercing
microwave beam weapons.
