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Originally posted by r2d246
What exactly are you trying to say. In 4 short sentenses?
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
Cute...but, check out this story.
marshallbrain.com...
Terrafoam = NWO conditions
Australia Project = If we decided to work together.
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
It will inevitably become inefficient beurocratic heaven, full of intrigue and corruption.
Look at UN.
When there is no competition, everything degenerates.
Originally posted by The Utopian Penguin
reply to post by coyote66
WHICH one there is so many ?
And why is that? Its not a closed system, it should be very open and transparent at its most ideal manifestation. What part of meritocracy did you not understand? It is based on real world performance and genuine skill/understanding, rather than empty rhetoric.
Originally posted by TheOneElectric
My point in all of that was not to be sarcastic at all. I was simply using another medium to illustrate something for you that really isn't worth the effort to explain through argument or text. You assume that a meritocracy will arise in such a situation, even when all of the evidence to the contrary stands in your face. The fictional "NWO" or whatever boogeyman people desire to point at in relation to global control has the features of a bi-segmented society. There are two classes of people. The control class, and the cattle. At best, in the story I presented, the cattle class is essentially trapped within prison like conditions where in which there is little to no freedom of movement or self determination. The cattle are worthless and eyesores to the Master class, and therefore are better kept away under lock and key. The life blood of humanity would simply be controlled and contained in the best of such a scenario. That's assuming machine labor exists. If not, then situations will arise that will give way to slave like means of production where in which the choice available to the cattle class involves enslavement or death, where wages are dictated and controlled by aristocratic corporate industries. In such a bi-segmented society social mobility wouldn't be a notion to be entertained, as the gap of wealth would be insurmountable even by the hardest working of individuals...and why would it need to be? Once a populace is numbed to a certain extent, then revolution becomes an inside joke to the Master class. There would be no reason to allow individuals to gain opportunity or share in the spoils of the "meritocracy"...such a thing simply wouldn't exist.
At best...well...at best self determination wins out and...I don't feel like going into that. An example was given and I'm squeezing in the time to look at this thread just to let you know that I wasn't being cheeky.
Originally posted by ZeroKnowledge
reply to post by coyote66
Yeah, magical force will uplift capable and goodwilling individuals into power position. Not some beurocrat in office 209/2 that is responsible for picking right candidate ,who is a friend with beurocrat in office 22/4 that is responsible for proper control of transperancy and lack of corruption but has a nephew that really likes to be in certain important position but lacks everything that is needed.
Oh, i wonder how it will develop.... Forget all the common experience of Human race stating that after few years those system start to rot.
And i would also love to see how objective the selector system (with beurocrats,who else) would be in that 2 caste society. For some reasons mentioned above, i see it all go south really fast. Moral,social and scientific issues aside, i would rather live in Iran (and i would really hate to live there) and not in that NWO.edit on 22-8-2012 by ZeroKnowledge because: (no reason given)