- 26 Mar 2018 17:15
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QatzelOk wrote:More likely that our system has expired and some of us are more awared of this than others.I agree, we should get together and talk about it. This isn't an inevitable conclusion.
Being turned into debt-slaves by a scheming oligarchy class is not "the world." It's a corrupt system that currently exists in the world, and it is destroying it.Qatz, this looks like a cognitive bias. In this case, your reasoning process favors circular reasoning. Sure, The oligarchy class create debt, but that doesn't mean the world is being destroyed by it. Again, people inhabit these systems of commerce, and we're collectively responsible for our actions and what we do to the biosphere.
But I will not forget your "the banks are people too" cry for compassion, and that it was accompanies by some victim-blaming. Well-used tactics of reactionaries throughout history.This isn't a tactic. I'm not defending anyone in particular, I'm simply pointing out that humans create these problems. There's a problem in the way we think, and business is a manifestation of that problem. I find it strange, how so many people treat extensions of thought as 'things' that exist independently of thought. We're the enablers, Qatz.
SpecialOlympian wrote:I call upon everyone reading this post to take up arms and join me in the war on poverty. This is a fight we can win. Just pick up a gun, walk outside, and start firing. You know what a poor person looks like. It is your moral obligation to kill them.This is toxic, nihilistic sarcasm. On one hand, SO is able to laugh at our struggle (which can be helpful, because comedy is grievance). On the other, he's expressing a fundamental problem found within society and our thinking processes. Thus I & your post, SO.
We are unwilling to tear up our credit cards yet expect Washington to do something despite clear evidence both parties are criminally complicit in the corrupt system. Individuals must change and accept responsibility.Yes, and this isn't to say that we do not acknowledge the behavioral manipulation and propaganda (which occurs daily). This is to say that we take back our minds (follow processes to the source) and rethink our actions. The title of this thread, Born slaves, we must buy our skins back from banks, implies action before thought. See, last time I checked, my skin is still on my back. What am I buying back, exactly? The supply/demand program will try to bypass this kind of discernment and tell you that you must 'BUY' something you already own. Of course, once we buy into that kind of thinking, we perpetuate the conflict by continually going outside ourselves for the solution to a problem we create internally. The exploited always outnumber the exploiters.
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"So much joy I cry, so much pain I laugh."
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Remember, you need more than one note to make beautiful music.
Love is the missing link!