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William Meecham <[log in to unmask]>
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The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky
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Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:30:01 -0800
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If about nothing why are our rulers so upset (see LATimes in this regard).
Remember (don't we ) Rome wasn't built in a day.
wcm
>
> I suspect that once the orgasmic glow has begun to recede, the non-liberal
> segment of the thinking left will recognize that the Seattle gig has changed
> nothing.  The window breakers will continue to pat themselves on the back and
> tell each other what glorious revolutionaries they are, the
> 'environmentalists' will continue to attempt to be included in the WTO so
> that they too can wield its undemocratic power over the masses, the union
> bosses will continue to proclaim concern for the 'workers of the world' while
> attempting to keep the gravy train flowing to their own members (thus
> preserving their own personal power) at the expense of everyone else,
> brain-dead Liberals will continue to gush about their empathy for the
> 'oppressed' (perhaps even having a mass "bean and rice" brunch to emphasize
> their commitment),  the MarxistStalinistLeninistTrotskyistMaoistFredMertzist
> gangs will continue to intellectually castrate each other in the name of
> purity of vision, the corporatists and their political hirelings will continue
>  to plod along on their way to a centralization of power over the populus
> made possible by the continued DE-centralization of the people's political
> power into meaningless hate-filled "identity" groups made up of a multitude
> of inbred cultures (otherwise known as Duh-versity) -- what an
> extraordinarily useful tool for those in power.
>
>      Poverty pimps and race hustlers such as the NAACP, La Raza, Jackson,
> Farrakhan and company, and their apologists will continue to ensure that
> enmity increases between the races in America, and pseudo-teachers in what we
> euphemistically refer to as institutes of higher learning will continue to
> promote post modernist gibberish to their acolytes so as to ensure no
> independence of thought.  Politicized multiculturalists (some of the most
> racist people of any color) will continue to squeal their hatred of anything
> white -- including themselves.  Students incarcerated in our schools will be
> taught less and less the discipline of independent thought and more and more
> what is proper for them to 'think' (actually, what to feel -- and even then
> at a superficial level).  The races will continue in the direction of
> voluntary self-segregation aided by the enthusiastic support of many of those
> who administer America's  schools and universities.
>
>     ChristiansMuslimsJewsAtheists will continue to maintain the Divide
> thereby assuring their political impotence in the face of the beast.  The
> nationalist will adorn himself in the raiment of the local religion of
> convenience and wage Jihad against the "infidels" thus consolidating his
> power among a fearful populus.  The 'hero' will step forward and reassure
> enough frightened people (those never taught the discipline of independent
> thought) that he will eliminate the danger by eliminating the "enemy" whether
> it be the Democrat party or the "evil empire" or the Republican party, etc.
> The armed RevolutionaryFreedomfighterTerroristGuerillaSoldier will continue
> to stupidly fight to simply swap one self-serving power structure for another.
>
>
>     And when it is all said and done, one has to ask whether we deserve
> anything different.  Each time the sides are drawn we end up being nothing
> more than flip sides of the same material loving coin.  We are fighting over
> a pie to determine WHO gets to CONTROL the size of the portions and to whom
> they will be distributed.  "Democracy", "Liberty", "Rights" are simply
> gibberish strewn along the path as so much chaff meant to disguise the real
> prize upon which we keep our collective eye.
> Yours,
> Issodhos
>

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