Let me borrow a quote (paraphrase) from Rumsfeld: You build a society with the people you have, not the people you wish you had or may have at some future time
(Feel free to credit that directly to Rumsfeld. It’d piss him off.)
All nations are peopled with selfish and self-serving apes. We’ve always depended on sociological tricks to get them to function within the social contract, but it does mean those with more power tend to try to hoard it, and the mechanisms we used to curb that were all captured and broken.
We can build a better society, but it will mean either violently seizing the property of those in power, or threatening them with an even greater violence that could ruin all they value. General strikes have been effective sometimes in Europe, but it’s think-outside-the-box time.
Since we don’t have a salted hydrogen bomb, I got nothing personally, but I haven’t stopped thinking about it.
Let me borrow a quote (paraphrase) from Rumsfeld: You build a society with the people you have, not the people you wish you had or may have at some future time
(Feel free to credit that directly to Rumsfeld. It’d piss him off.)
All nations are peopled with selfish and self-serving apes. We’ve always depended on sociological tricks to get them to function within the social contract, but it does mean those with more power tend to try to hoard it, and the mechanisms we used to curb that were all captured and broken.
We can build a better society, but it will mean either violently seizing the property of those in power, or threatening them with an even greater violence that could ruin all they value. General strikes have been effective sometimes in Europe, but it’s think-outside-the-box time.
Since we don’t have a salted hydrogen bomb, I got nothing personally, but I haven’t stopped thinking about it.