On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:15:15 -0600, William <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:47:19 -0500, Robert Kesterson  
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Postulate: yams were a weapon; get your neighbours to eat them, when  
>>> they get fat and slow kill them and take over their territory.
>>
>> It's a good thing that attitude isn't practiced as much today.  (Or  
>> maybe it's a bad thing.  Depends on which side of the sugar fence your  
>> camp is on.  ;-) )
>
> It is practised today. Fluorides to make people passive, and so, easy to  
> control; wheat to keep people busy with the resultant troubles and  
> shorten their lives, prevents wisdom. Chemicals in the food and vaccines  
> to cull the population of the ruled tribe.

I was thinking specifically of the fact that Americans are, in large part,  
fat and lazy, but nobody has yet militarily conquered the place.

> It's more profitable to rule them than to kill them.

I suspect that's a large part of the reason why.

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   Robert Kesterson
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