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The Looming "National Nervous Breakdown"
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
When the citizenry cease to believe the lies, the nation suffers a nervous breakdown.
Last week I used the phrase National Nervous Breakdown without clarifying its meaning. (The War on Our Intuition That Something Is Fundamentally Amiss)
By National Nervous Breakdown I do not mean the breakdown of civil order or the economy; I mean the breakdown of the officially sanctioned narratives that underpin the Status Quo. These Master Narratives legitimize the current arrangement; once they erode or break down, the legitimacy of the Status Quo is lost.
The shell remains in place, but nobody believes the system is a fair, just meritocracy.
Let's consider the erosion or breakdown of these master narratives.
1. No accountability for abuse of power. The core narrative is no one is above the law, which means not only that everyone is supposedly treated equally before the law, but that abuses of power are punished or limited.
Now that police departments are essentially stealing from private citizens without due process via civil forfeiture, it's clear there is no accountability for abuses of power.
This is simply one example of many in which blatant abuse of power is sanctioned by the Status Quo, and there is little recourse for citizens who have been abused unless they are wealthy enough to fund a high-powered legal team.
In effect, our legal system is broken. This mirrors the erosion and breakdown of accountability in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when abuse of power was rampant and there was little recourse for the citizenry.
2. Though U.S. foreign policy is guided by realpolitik, it is fundamentally based on the high moral ground of defending liberty, democracy and civil liberties. Wars of choice that squandered American lives, treasure and credibility and the use of torture for dubious gains have demolished the credibility and legitimacy of U.S. foreign policy--once again, mirroring the delegitimizing result of the Vietnam War and all the official lies that were issued to mask that war's true costs and failures.
3. The manipulation of official data to mask the reality that the U.S. economy now operates to benefit the few at the expense of the many--crony capitalism writ large. Vested interests control the political and financial machinery to expand their share of the national income and power.
Meanwhile, the income and wealth of the vast majority of citizens stagnates.
4. The middle-class roadmap to financial security--earning a college degree and working hard for a corporate employer--is broken. A college degree leads to debt-serfdom in the form of crushing student loans, but the education gained has little value in the emerging economy.
In the corporate world, loyalty has been reduced to a facade of rah-rah PR that masks a culture of insecurity.
5. The government at all levels--local, state and federal--responds to any questioning of its authority or abuse of power with increasing over-reach and violence. There are so many examples of this, it's difficult to know where to start: the federal government's war on truthtellers regarding domestic spying abuses, and the state of California's blatantly unconstitutional confiscation of taxpayer bank accounts with zero due process--the mere suspicion that income hasn't been fully reported in California is sufficient grounds for the theft of citizens' money by the state.
Welcome to the United States of Orwell, Part 2: Law-Abiding Taxpayers Are Treated as Criminals While the Real Criminals Go Free (March 27, 2012)
When the master narratives have broken down, legitimacy is lost. What's left is authority without accountability or recourse and abuse of power without limits.
When the citizenry cease to believe the lies, the nation suffers a nervous breakdown.
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big divide in Merica is between those who work and pay taxes and those who dont. Its about half now
And then the problem with paying your taxes becomes what are idiots in the gov't going to do with them? Build more bombs and kill more people?
Oh boy, pass the Maalox... Double dose....
Winter is coming. Im sharpening my plows into swords
I know I will catch a buncha red, but it wont change the truth.
When push comes to shove and middle America gets pissed there will be hell to pay. They are the largest standing army on the planet
After the revolution it’s not as if the Social Security and pension plans will pay out. Let’s just euthanize that crowd now avoiding the destruction phase all together.
Long Ativan..
and gin and tonic
and don't forget the medical marijuana
You were still in school when you had that fool who really messed your mind
And after that you turned your back on treating people kind
On our first trip I tried so hard to rearrange your mind
But after awhile I realized you were disarranging mine
You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown
In the minds of awakening Americans, some of their moral spheres are doing battle with other moral spheres.
In other words: cognitive dissonance.
The Six Foundations
Values and their opposites
1. Care/harm: cherishing and protecting others.
2. Fairness/cheating: rendering justice according to shared rules. (Alternate name: Proportionality)
3. Liberty/oppression: the loathing of tyranny.
4. Loyalty/betrayal: standing with your group, family, nation. (Alternate name: Ingroup)
5. Authority/subversion: obeying tradition and legitimate authority. (Alternate name: Respect.)
6. Sanctity/degradation: abhorrence for disgusting things, foods, actions. (Alternate name: Purity.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Foundations_Theory
As an aside, it would be interesting to see how the other moral spheres can be used against the authority moral sphere as in this article on Milgram's Experiment.
Infamous study of humanity's 'dark side' may actually show how to keep it at bay
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-01/uow-iso010915.php
MADISON, Wis. -- In 1961, with memories of Holocaust atrocities and the prosecution of Nazi officials at Nuremburg still fresh, psychologist Stanley Milgram undertook a series of now infamous experiments on obedience and reprehensible behavior.
About two-thirds of Milgram's nearly 800 study subjects, pressed by an authoritative experimenter, were willing to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to an unseen stranger despite cries of agony and pleas to stop.
"Milgram claimed to have found sort of a dark side to human nature that people were not quite as attuned to," says Matthew Hollander, a graduate student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "His study participants were much more likely to obey than he expected, and that was an understandably uncomfortable result."
But Milgram divided his subjects into just two categories: obedient or disobedient. After examining the experiences of more than 100 of Milgram's participants, Hollander sees a great deal more nuance in their performances -- and maybe a way to prevent real-world occurrences of authority overriding ethical judgment.
"The majority did cave, and follow the experimenter's orders," says Hollander, whose findings were published online today by the British Journal of Social Psychology. "But a good number of people resisted, and I've found particular ways they did that, including ways of resisting that they share with the people who ultimately complied."
When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout....
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/caesars-bet-better-days-led-bankruptcy-div...
Robust!
How ironic! That crowd said the same thing about your crowd.
No it didn't. That crowd is busy watching dancing with the stars.
Problem is, you'll be fighting your neighbors while the perpetrators sit far away while awaiting the outcome in the form of the next political mandate.
No, I won't be fighting my neighbors. I won't be letting a good crises go to waste either.
Agreed, my neighbors are awake as well...
DaddyO
My neighbors are rah-rah football fans that will attack the truth if it comes near them. Assimilate or be shunned people.
If you literally mean 'football fans' they are notorious dupes....the statolatry and symbolic worship of the war machine at football games is beyond comprehension......
They run an American Sniper commecial non stop during football games...pandering to their audience
"statolatry"
That's a great word
True, that is quite the problem.
Until you've figured out home-made flamethrowers and potato-gun mortars, courtesy of the internet.
I have yet to see a bullet proof vest stop a flamethrower, and I have yet to see the government ban PVC because of its "extremist uses".
When the government moves to ban Wikipedia, that's when you should make a stand. After that, it will be far too late...
A trip down to your local big box store can supply you with the basis for many weapons including chemical weapons. 4th Gen warfare is a bitch....
You can download all of Wikipedia to your own computer. Don't remember the exact sizes, but 200GB should be enough for all of the English Wiki as well as the pictures. I have already done this and stored it on a hard drive not currently plugged in - just in case. Really can't hurt to have a local copy of the greatest collection of human knowledge that's ever existed.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/all-of-wikipedia-c...
You can download all of Wikipedia to your own computer. ... Really can't hurt to have a local copy of the greatest collection of human knowledge that's ever existed.
Knowledge? Really?
>>while the perpetrators sit far away
At some point these guys will need what we produce? Think about how many tomatoes need to go to NYC or DC every single day.
The Revolution can be won without bullets if we want.
Yes, YES!
The spice must flow. Cut off those barcoded microwave meals and you'll control the world.
To a certain extent your absolutely right but if your in driving range of a big city you need plenty of ammo for the mobile looters.
NA, if you believe you will be fighting your neighbors, you truly need to move to a new neighborhood. I sure as hell won't be fighting mine, I'll be fighting with them (already happening in many ways).
Im sharpening my plows into swords
Funny that people are willing to threaten violence rather than simply withrawing their obedience. It's the the perfect way to avoid doing anything at all:
When they cross this line! No, when they cross this line! No, when....
That's the rub in this scenario. A significant percentage of those that claim "from my cold dead hands" will roll over just like everyone else. It may just be a with a little more struggling, but the end result would be the same. Unless you find a group with which to band together, you'll go down just the same. I'd like to think I'd stand up, but if a SWAT team shows up at my door, even if I had a shotgun handy, I won't know what I'd do until it actually happened. Talk is cheap. Internet posts about how tough you're going to be on that day are even cheaper.
When push comes to shove and middle America gets pissed there will be hell to pay. They are the largest standing army on the planet
Standing Army? I thought they're all couch-slouching, watching Dancing with the Kardashians?
I'm going to be that guy, who's going to remind those who forget, that first, only a small percentage of the population fought the Revolutionary War, about three percent. And that three percent, took down one of the biggest Empires that existed. Believe it. Secondly, I'm going to remind you, that in April of last year, the Federal Government backed down in Bunkerville, Nevada, otherwise known as the Bundy Ranch incident. Believe it. Finally, as someone who was actually there, but not a part of any group whatsoever, you'd be surprised at how many people like myself showed up, uncalled for, but bound to our duty to support the fight against Tyranny. Believe it. When you get the call, from deep in your gut and you feel that obligation to go, GO! Don't wait for someone to tell you. Don't let your family, friends, etc, dissuade you, because they'll try. Go! Go buy some camping gear, pack up the car and just fucking GO! Get it? Easy as that. GO! You'll know, believe me.
Well...You just must be colorblind, Karius.
Greens are on top and reds are on the bottom and your post deserves a green.
Why would you think that it deserves a red?
Do you believe that it is an incorrect position?
The optimal outcome will minimize casualties and end up as a relatively peaceful balkanization.
Yet it is best to be prepared for less than optimal outcomes.
I like the way you think TT.
See youi on the trail maybe.
and pay moar peeps not to work
i've been a Zh'er for quite some time and already had a number of break downs...it's about time the rest of the country catches up
You must already have your ballistic bullion and shtf plan already then. Good on you m8.
Then, at some point people decide to pay less taxes or none.
removed
Sony Hack - "north korea did it"
Centcom hack - "isis did it"
Paris attack - " al qaeda yemen did it" (ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
al qaeda, yemen chapter lol. the arabs are now fully in kahoots with the jews. who woulda ever thought. I guess the right amount of money can buy anything, but what it really boils down to is the fact that the u.s. is so easily expoitable because we are so fucking stupid. Terrorism is just a big racket.
between those who work and pay taxes and those who dont. Its about half now
Which is why we MUST have amnesty.
Well yes Toto (Charles), we all haven't been in Kansas for quite some time now.
I was think something a little more violent than amnesty.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBG4vxi9mtk
Actually, complying with the system now a days is criminal by their own laws.
Giving money in any form to support .gov violates the RICO act.
That's just one example off the top of my head.
"big divide in Merica is between those who work and pay taxes and those who dont. Its about half now"
You might be supprised:
"the real reason why our nations are all insolvent, in the first place, and about to go bankrupt: because of taxation inequality. The Misers at the top, the fraction of the Top-1% who hoard most of our wealth refuse to pay taxes on their gigantic hoards.
The “tax base” across the Western world has collapsed, as those on the bottom have nothing left to tax, while those at the top (hoarding all the wealth) are taxed at the lowest rates in history. This has resulted in what I previously described (and documented) as “the Great Western Revenue Crisis”. In real dollars; spending is flat, but tax receipts have collapsed.
This is another reason why lying about inflation is so important to the Oligarchs. By pretending that inflation is only a tiny fraction of its actual level, they can skew the numbers, making spending appear to be rising, and revenues appear to be (at least somewhat stable). But the two charts below completely debunk that fiction."
IMF: Wealth Inequality Harms EconomiesI am expecting the trickly down to reach me any minute now. Just wish it wouldn't smell so much.
Let all who can escape the IRS do so.
Taxation is theft, and it is not cleansed by our envy.
From the same article as my previous quote:
"There was never any justification for the last three decades of tax hand-outs for those on top. Allowing those on top to enjoy decades of this tax-welfare is effectively no different than if the wealthy simply stole that money directly out of the pockets of the Average Person – since that’s who has been paying their taxes all these years."
It wasn't an escape, it was theft!
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all Republics." - Plutarch
Correct. The raging debate right now on capitol hill is the month to month funding of DHS. Republicans want executive actions on immigration/amnesty actions recalled. Democrats want them to stay in place. Inside this debate is the back taxes of undocumented workers who are ostensibly poor. But are these new poor people expected pay to the same taxes that existing poorer people already do? To make it worse, somebody will be forced to pay even more as the add on costs of indecision continues.
The government always gets is money from someone. Finding a way to personally avoid it in a 80,000 page law just points the gun at somebody else. Since the rich/elite control the laws/guns they feel it can not be pointed back at them, out of principle. Money is not the issue to them. They feel they are the only ones smart enough to understand taxation and therefore should be exempt from it. As your post indicates, in the properous stages of a civilization, the elite work in the feilds of medicine, science, culture, etc.
Here in California, the Poor don't pay hardly anything. The lower 63.4% of the population (making less than $30K a year!), pays 3.2% of the taxes. The individuals making $100K, who account for 15.8% of the population, pay 84.7% of the taxes! If you include the $50K and over crowd, that 36.6% pays 97% of the taxes! Not a recipe for long term stabilization, especially noting that Corporate taxes in California, declined 15% from the year before. So, what you have, is the lower two thirds of the population, taking far more, than they put in. And they say Poverty is rampant. No shit! When you make the biggest cities in California, 'Sanctuary Cities', and import millions of low IQ, third world idiots from south of the border, what do you expect?
Instead of trying to get tax evaders to pay taxes, I'd rather have taxpayers stop paying their share. We're talking giving money to the government here, and as far as I'm concerned they deserve zero.
When you are employed by someone else it is difficult to stop paying income tax as your employer takes care of that for you.
X2
Unless you are planning on moving out of the country and never coming back, Wesley Snipes would suggest failing to pay the IRS doesn't work out so well in the end.
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Yes, but he's Wesley Snipes - a perfect object lesson along with Willy Nelson before him. If you're very small you might not be worth the effort.
There's a third group that is even more troublesome.
Those that make hundreds of millions and dont pay taxes. But they're treated like a national treasure. "They'll take their investment capital elsewhere!!!!!" if we make them pay their fair share. Maybe they should try Nigeria or Syria, I hear the regs are quite relaxed there.
What welfare really is: They destroy the economy and then use the resulting poor as an excuse to rob and impoverish us even more.
The banksters need to repay us.
It is not those receiving the welfare that are the problem, it is those creating the poverty, and stealing the funding for welfare that are the problem. "Kill the recipients, and they'll make more. Kill the thieves that fund welfare, and that will be that."
Can't beat "them"? Join them. Find foreclosed on home. File your own mortgage/deed/sale and move a tenant in. Do it all under a DBA under a "foreign" (not your State) LLC and collect the rents until you can't!
That would be black letter fraud. Unless you are in the club, which you are obviously not, then it carries criminal penalties.
With an across state lines paper trail.Fed time.
The only legal way I can think of to do this for a gain would be for you yourself to move in and rent your current home if you own one.
Back in 1970's in London when squatting was big , a phoney lease delayed the eviction
process by years.Nothing new under the sun.
Well if you can hide behind an LLC so effectively that the US Govt cannot discover who owns phantom cell phone towers in Metro DC, you could shurely hide the identity of a phoney landlord.
I still wouldn't recommend it, but lets be honest, the govt runs around shitting their pants trying to control everything when they don't even know what their own agencies are doing.
fuck the narratives, only the truly stupid believe that crap anymore and to hell with them anyway. when people stop doing the maggot's bidding shit will stop working for real.
How many million fall into that category again?
Nervous breakdown = cognitive dissonance can no longer be placated with debt drug
billions, actually. they will never wake up. it is the minority with at least half a functioning brain of whom the maggots require their cooperation. they don't worry about opposition, but they do need a ceratin number to willingly do their bidding and that is where the danger lies for them. even the police state, politicians, and bureaucrats, when they realize they don't need the maggots anymore, that could be a problem.
55% of discretionary spending goes for military, THAT is the big divide.
Left vs Right again...
Look, it's ALL the fucking spending. Welfare (personal and corporate) as well as Warfare. Both need to be cut the fuck out.
No, you don't understand. Most of the spending is compulsory. It can't be changed without changing the law. If 100% of discretionary spending was cut. The US could still not balance it's budget.
So long as we have a debt-is-money fractional reserve system, the US will not balance its budget. It's inherent in our monetary system.
So long as we have the worl's reserve currency, the US will not balance it's budget. It's inherent in our monetary policy.
Fixed.
Welfare is actually a very small slice of the pie when you look at the spending chart, and he did use the qualifier "discretionary". DOD gets MOST of the rest, everyone else gets scraps. Agriculture, Transportation, Education, Energy, EPA, Treasury, Interior, State, they get dick compared to the Mil/Ind complex. It's not a left vs. right thing, its simple chart reading.
There is no discretionary spending. Entitlements alone consume roughly 100% of tax revenues. The rest is borrowed.
Entitlements are not inappropriate. It's the unentitlements I find disturbing.
I agree, we are not very effective at rewarding the right people in this society. Maybe EBT cards should be given to productive hard working people instead of leaches. What kind of message would that send?
never mind
The nation is going to suffer a lot more than just a nervous breakdown. It's only a matter of time.
Your bed at the FEMA reeducation camp has already been reserved. Mine too.
They didn't buy a billion rounds of ammo to go rabbit hunting.
Us incorrigables get a headshot.
No FEMA camp for us.
Indeed.
Back of the head, hands bound with zip-ties, kneeling over a hastily excavated ditch.
If I'm gonna take a bullet, I would certainly prefer it from the front, with a rifle in my hands. If the end result is the same, there is no point in being taken alive.
Train for CQB.
Setting the expectation that no quarter will be given ensures a bloody good time. It also provides interesting asymmetric opportunities. When 'they' have to wear uniforms every day, they are easily identifyable. With some observation, so are their families. How far down the rabbit hole will .gov venture?
Muppet hunting...
I'll see you there bunkmate! I call top!
And we're only in the beginning stage of collapse.
Yippee!
The long slide down the slippery slope of reality picks up speed. Woe to all those who downed a soporific blue pill, because hitting bottom ain't going to feel good.
What if the blue pill was just to numb the pain?
They call me Mr Pitiful...Baby that's my name now, oh !
Shades of Otis heading south (the elevator broke down) !
Nurse Ratched to admitting.
Years ago I parked a motorcycle on private property while I was overseas for a few years. The State of California passed a law while I was gone that all vehicles, even those on private property must be registered acitvely or passively on private property. Since I was away I was unaware and unable to pay for either option and the State went into my business account and confiscated the money to pay for the registration plus penalties. Fuck that fascist state and all others who do similar things.
Related: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/american-shakedown-police-won-t-charge-you-...
Police cash seizures under the guise of drug interdiction and law enforcement.
More wanker platitudes and catch phrases from CHS.
Names the names? Determines and states essential facts of our time?
Won't hold my breath.
Make sure to go to your county clerk's office and print those lists! The lists of registered voters on the team you do no like, of course.
With Impunity Babylon Burning
"The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine."
- George Bernard Shaw
The Internet will usher in a new form of governance. Something I call Socialocracy.
Yes it will be after the big bang, boom, or bust, but because of the Internet I think we will avoid war and instead turn upwards for a Renaissance. Part of that will be for a new form of governance and regulation decentalized and crowd sourced.
There will be no internet after "the big bang, boom or bust".
Enjoy your videocracy until then.
Not true... dear leader, OGolfer1, says different.
"Obama to push for cheaper, speedier broadband in the US"
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/13/7541253/obama-wants-cheaper-broadband-in-the-us
<sarcoff>
One thing we have all learned the hard way is the Obama loves to tell us he wants to do something that will benefit the average man while in reality he does the opposite to benefit the corporate interests. He's a pathological lier .
LOL, riiiiiiiiiight!
Got any soma you can spare?
I used to believe that myself, but now I am skeptical. TPTB and stupid people have done a good job loading the web with disinformation, videos of cats and twerking idiots.
At least the cats are real. Real cats are ok.
I like cats in boxes. They're ok too.
Disinformation. It's its own corner of the internet.
I'm still a proponent of Sortition, if anybody cares to randomly select their leaders rather than buying them!? :)
governance needs trust. at least a small bit of it. now the internet is a wonderful tool for many things, but it can't replace the trust you can have in people that you meet in real life
in fact, the internet, taken to extremes, increases the gulf between individuals, making them more isolated (and more easily controllable)
the whole thing would be different if people would meet and form solidarity groups, or any group, and then go back to the internet representing officially a whole group's goals
There is no substitute for the real world.
"You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." - Some famous person
Real people are overrated.
Most of them tend to be annoying.
I manage to be annoying in both virtual and real presence. without even trying
Don't be too self defecating Ghordius; You're way too good for that!
Any Chance of borrowing 5k until i get out of Jail?
Celebrate your natural abilities and share them with all, though they may not be graciously received.
Some people can't help but look a gift horse in the mouth. :)
Not surprisingly I can relate.
Not sure that is true. I refuse to trust anyone in the Financial industry regardless of whether I met them via the internet of not.
your comment somewhat implies that I have anything to do with the financial industry. I don't. me, small entrepreneur. I make real things. and this highlights the thing, if you would see my context, you'd have a completely different relation to me (though possibly you'd hate me, but for other reasons)
let me guess..you make something like engraving plates to print money ? ( euro ? )
lol. damn, no
There is a story/fable/myth my wife tells me about how someone smuggled out engraving plates for the $20 bill out of the Denver mint many years ago. The plates were subsequently buried under a tree (she claims to have been a witness to this), and the printing press (which was housed in a trailer) is now buried under a berm somewhere in Missouri. As the wife tells me, the plates changed hands over the years, usually under violent circumstances, but apparently this is how the Lake of the Ozarks got it's start...funded by counterfeit money.
Standard Disclaimer: If the alphabet agencies really do monitor this website, feel free to contact me. You'd know better than I if there is any validity to this tale. I do reserve the rights for any books/movies that might be written/filmed about this.
It is the s*cr*t s*rvic* that is responsible for that, no ? Always found that odd, the same people that protect the president. One question though : what about the numbers ?
I was speaking in a more general, ethereal context.
I enjoy your comments, look forward to reading them and agree with them more than not.
Of course here on ZH, there are members (especially the Putin Mancrush team) who would not agree with me on anything.
Direct democracy is the only solution. Who needs a president (or mayor) just hire an administrator that can be fired in seconds.
Direct democracy is the last fucking thing we need in this current environment of apathy, entitlement and corruption. Heads on pikes and consequences, then we can have a conversation about governance.
That is why we have apathy and corruption because we the people are not in charge. Representative"democracy" is a joke and has never worked.
Democracy works great until 50.1% of the people vote to tax anyone named esteban at 99%.
The plus 50% has all the right to be as stupid as they can but they will never have somebody to blame.
What does a meritocracy look like:
1) Everyone succeeds on their own merit
2) There is no un-earned wealth or power, e.g inheritance, hereditary titles
3) There is a uniform schools system for everyone, with no private schools
I see problems with adopting meritocratic ideas.
Meritocracies and private schools are not mutually exclusive.
You could have private schools, as long as all schools are effectively the same and everyone can access the same standard of education.
But why would anyone pay to access private schools when they are the same as those freely available from the state?
You could have more advanced schools that select on merit (the meritocracy), providing a more advanced education for the brightest.
In the UK we used to have exams at eleven and the brightest went to grammar schools (all meritocratic).
There can be no selection on parental wealth through schools fees.
Ok, some poeple don't like meritocracies, those that wouldn't be able to suceed on their own merit I should imagine
No dumbass. Some people just dont like the notion of .gov sticking its dirty hands into family wealth. Nor not having the ability to choose what type of education to give their kids.
i.e. we like those at the top to have rich parents and those at the top like to ensure their children get to the top.
The whole meritocracy thing is a load of baloney, so the muppets think they have a deserving elite.
There never is or will be a meritocracy, the elites want the best for their children and don't want any of that meritocracy stuff blocking their path to the top.
Paying taxes is highly over-rated.
Soma is not what it used to be.
Ya beat me by a minute!
Looming? Sad and bad to be "middle class" today. What about being poor and black 60 or 160 years ago in this country? Those are the looming conditions for those persons not able to organize themselves against powerful institutions.
"We are all Niggers in America Now!" - Cornell West (Black Princeton professor)
“If you put our federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand."
- Milton Friedman
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Sore Thumb (Live in London)
Just a handful of reasons that We, the people, of the FOUNDING STOCK of America may no longer trust .gov and the media:
Right In Time For Obamnesty Debate, December Jobs Data Shows Immigrant Displacement Of American Workers Still At Record Levels January 9, 2015
What Not Even the King of England Could Do
A federal researcher points out George III couldn’t suspend laws
The CHARLIE HEBDO Attacks: A Triumph of Terrorism
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Diversity Is Our Destruction
Patrick J. Buchanan August 9, 2007
Statement issued by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith: Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL National Chair, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director:ADL Welcomes President's Executive Action on Immigration
Whites Face a Government Working Against Their Interests and Their Children’s
Peter Morici is an economist and business professor at the University of Maryland, and a national columnist. He tweets @pmorici1.
As one guy said:
"Assuming that whites are no longer the majority, and given that some whites will always believe that their race is the root of all evil, it should be clear that whites will have no recourse through the ballot box to redress that grievance. They shouldn't place too much hope in the courts either, packed with appointees from Obama and others who believe that anti-white bigotry should be government policy.
And given that these same whites who must sit at the back of the bus when it comes to education and employment, are probably also being taxed at combined federal, state and local rates that well exceed 50%, their condition will be worse than mere second class citizenship. Their condition will be the moral equivalent of sharecropping. If whites do not behave very, very badly in response to such a situation, they will have tacitly consented to slavery in the country their ancestors made great."
And another guy:
“They altered the national demography and introduced us to integration, busing, Affirmative Action, minority quotas, sensitivity training, Black History and—the Holocaust. They gave us permissiveness, drugs, MTV and teen suicide. They gave us safe sex and unsafe streets and gun control. They gave us rock ‘n roll and rape-counseling centers. They gave us ‘alternative lifestyles,’ sodomy, AIDS, filth, perversion, chaos, crime, corruption, dumbing down and insanity of every kind.”
Buchanan has a Neo-con koolaid IV.
Actually, Buchanan is about as anti-Neocon as it gets. He's a Paleo-Conservative.
Try reading what he writes, instead of making assumptions.
I did, which is why I made that comment. He's bought into the bullshit narrative or at the very least gives it lip service. Try a little critical thinking instead of whatever the fuck it is you do.
Nobody ever gave me filth and perversion...
I had to buy that myself.
If it takes a crash in oil prices to bring the banks to the brink of going broke, it is good news.
I am not going to feel sorry for oil companies at all. They've been spending too much money and losing their shirts is fair play.
Dinking around with oil trading until the world has had enough of it and now the oil companies are crying themselves to sleep. It is just too bad. I'll shed a few crocodile tears and feign some sympathy for them. The poor babies.
They'll just have to learn to do with less. The banks can eat crow, the dumb shits.
We are all in bed with the banks. They go tits up and they bail-in your deposits
Uh. The Washington D.C. NWO contractor politicians legalized propaganda to be used against American citizens to prevent them from trusting government. In other words dude the NWO has declared war against the United States of America. It is not a nervous breakdown it is WAR.
Soma is now a CII.
... someone once said, "The foundation of every state is the education of its politicians" ...
... I'd tend to disagree ... I'd say, a good foundation of every state is the eradication of its bad politicians because school is not the place to learn how to destroy the state, you have to go to Congress and White House for that.
... unfortunately, the sheeple outnumber the thinkers ... hence the consistent revolving door of idiots being elected ... and the erosion and breakdown of <place your favourite country here> ...
"Sortition...hey, at least it's not crack."
The only timeline that Americans need to reflect on before they are left homeless on the continent their forefathers handed them!... Should have been cleaned up long ago with deep national reflection following the results of the Vietnam War, escalation in the funding of the MIC in the 80's and 90's with the retention of our bases in Western Europe as an obvious prelude to what was on it's way, the S&L bailout, the repeal of Glass Steagall and the banker bailouts of '08...
But for the sake of arguments the last rails that mattered:
9/11... Patriot Act(s) I and II..., NDAA...
Coulda!... Woulda!... Shoulda!...!!!