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Unread 02-02-2010, 07:35 PM   #11
Funka Genocide
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I'm more trying to make the point that idealistic rabble rousing on internet forums only serves to either:

A: Endear yourself to people who share your ideals.

or

B: Aggravate people who aren't as idealistic.

It's nice and good and great to try and think globally or whatever it is the academia are up to, but functionally speaking without a broad enough audience and a sturdy enough platform you're just pissing in the breeeze.

In order to attain that sort of audience, you pretty much need to be in politics, but then you'd lose the autonomy necessary to be idealistic.

Karl Marx had some great ideas, but look where that got us.

Also, there's no need to factor in "corruption" since idiocy is just another facet of a population. If people are ignorant enough to fall for a bullshit ploy like that, then they just are. It'd be nice if everything were black and white and all the good choices had a neat little sticky note next to them with a "sign here" written on it, but that's not the case.

Fuck, you might be able to make the case that making a global resource grab in the face of impending scarcity is the best decision for America. Pulling one over on the populace to get the green light might be the best decision. It's not as though you could just come out and say "Well, you know petroleum? The material basis for our entire society? Yeah... we're a bit low. So how about we go steal some?"

So long as people cling to their cultural identities and associate themselves with nations, you will always have these sorts of outcomes. And while from an idealistic viewpoint it might be best to just abolish all boundaries and work together in some big hippy commune, how precisely to you hope to accomplish that?

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