RE: Airline worker falls asleep, OP ED.
April 18, 2015 at 8:21 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2015 at 8:51 am by Brian37.)
That is a good analogy. Anything can be worshiped and I do think the plutocrats or as you put it the pharaohs have convinced the rest of us to build those pyramids for them.
No one said the outcome was a benefit, he was still a billionaire, and he still fucked over the population he ruled over. Jefferson supported the French Revolution. His intent was there, the plutocrats were screwing over the population, but it simply shifted the wealth from one sect to Napoleon and his party. Same with Marx's ideas which lead to Stalin. Dangle any ideology in front of the masses, get them to blindly follow it, you can get humans to do all sorts of cruel things to others.
(April 17, 2015 at 3:52 pm)Heywood Wrote:(April 17, 2015 at 3:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No you cannot let gaps get too big. EVER. Gadaffi was a billionaire who owned stock in GE. He got his ass handed to him, and I think rightfully so, because he was more concerned about making a name for himself and his own ideology and power, than he was about the welfare of those he had power over. But he still was a billionaire.
Gadaffi was murdered because American air power gave his enemies an overwhelming advantage not because he was a billionaire. Now you have a country in absolute chaos but that is the subject of another thread.
No one said the outcome was a benefit, he was still a billionaire, and he still fucked over the population he ruled over. Jefferson supported the French Revolution. His intent was there, the plutocrats were screwing over the population, but it simply shifted the wealth from one sect to Napoleon and his party. Same with Marx's ideas which lead to Stalin. Dangle any ideology in front of the masses, get them to blindly follow it, you can get humans to do all sorts of cruel things to others.
