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originally posted by: undo
if we had free energy and robots did the work we didn't want to do, we wouldn't need money and people could just do what they wanted. it wouldn't be necessary to enact laws that force people to be or not be a particular religion, to do or not do a particular job. as long as you were abiding by the three laws of ethics, you could do pretty much anything you wanted.
originally posted by: undo
a reply to: SoulSurfer
people shouldn't have to change a thing about what they believe/do. inject free energy, robots to do our work we don't want to do, simplify the laws, remove money, problem solved. you can share the planet with people you disagree with because there will be no laws forcing you to anything you don't want besides the three laws of ethics
1. do not willfully and without fully informed consent, hurt or kill another
2. do not willfuly and without fully informed consent, take or damage another's property
3. do not willfully defraud another (
that's it.
why add
4. no religion allowed
?? what's it matter to you as long as they are not willfully hurting or killing you, or wilfully taking or damaging or defrauding you? ain't none of yo beeswax what someone else believes about the hereafter or the practice of their religion or the lack thereof.
The words above do not differentiate between black and white, catholic and jew, or any other groups. It addresses us all.
We the People. This, by itself, says everything that America should, and in our deepest dreams does, stand for. Somehow, or other, we've allowed this to be tarnished, and stained. Instead of just saying it's damaged and needs fixing, we cast blame. We search and we search for a scapegoat...and being human, we find 'em.
Ultimately, it's all up to you.
[The] American business community was also very impressed with the propaganda effort. They had a problem at that time. The country was becoming formally more democratic. A lot more people were able to vote and that sort of thing. The country was becoming wealthier and more people could participate and a lot of new immigrants were coming in, and so on.
So what do you do? It's going to be harder to run things as a private club. Therefore, obviously, you have to control what people think. There had been public relation specialists but there was never a public relations industry. There was a guy hired to make Rockefeller's image look prettier and that sort of thing. But this huge public relations industry, which is a U.S. invention and a monstrous industry, came out of the first World War. The leading figures were people in the Creel Commission. In fact, the main one, Edward Bernays, comes right out of the Creel Commission. He has a book that came out right afterwards called Propaganda. The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War that the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things. But in this period, the term propaganda just meant information or something like that. So he wrote a book called Propaganda around 1925, and it starts off by saying he is applying the lessons of the first World War. The propaganda system of the first World War and this commission that he was part of showed, he says, it is possible to "regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies." These new techniques of regimentation of minds, he said, had to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it now because we have these new techniques.
This is the main manual of the public relations industry. Bernays is kind of the guru. He was an authentic Roosevelt/Kennedy liberal. He also engineered the public relations effort behind the U.S.-backed coup which overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala.
His major coup, the one that really propelled him into fame in the late 1920s, was getting women to smoke. Women didn't smoke in those days and he ran huge campaigns for Chesterfield. You know all the techniques—models and movie stars with cigarettes coming out of their mouths and that kind of thing. He got enormous praise for that. So he became a leading figure of the industry, and his book was the real manual.
—Noam Chomsky
(From Chomsky's "What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream": a talk at Z Media Institute, June 1997)
I know where you're going with that. Equality used to be about lifting up the downtrodden. Now its more mentioned with the idea of stamping down the "excessively" successful.
originally posted by: xuenchen
It's hard for people to come together as long as some continue to negatively highlight differences in the name of "equality".
originally posted by: wayforward
Equality used to be about lifting up the downtrodden. Now its more mentioned with the idea of stamping down the "excessively" successful.
originally posted by: xuenchen
It's hard for people to come together as long as some continue to negatively highlight differences in the name of "equality".
the elephant and rider in the room, the twin towers of psycopaths to power: money and the state
remove money but not the state, you still end up a slave.
remove the state but not money, you wind up with people with life and death power over others via bribery, set up blackmail scenarios which threatens family, friends and the individual in question, because they can pay for toadies to do the dirty work.
the legal system is the loathsome vine that supports the twin towers of money and state.
so remove the money and the state, enact three laws of ethics, problem solved.