[extropy-chat] Singularity shoot-out on Slashdot...

[Mike Lorrey]

as john taylor gatto says, the ignorance is intentionally wrought.
serfs need no knowledge beyond their shire. why have your own opinion
when the media- industrial complex can produce one for you?
--- extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Kevin Freels
> 
> > I was just reading an article in my newspaper that said that 
> > roughly 47% of US citizens can;t correctly point out England on a
> world map. 
> > It was in an article titled "Are people too ignorant to vote?"
> 
> Yes, most humans are far too ignorant to vote, and yes 
> it is intentional, for the mainstream news media are 
> misleading the proletariat, not just in the US but
> everywhere news media exist.  This thing about finding
> England on a map is not a good argument however.  Regardless
> of where you go on this planet, you still hafta go to the 
> same airport.  Any nation can trade with or make war on
> any other country anywhere on the globe.  It makes no
> where it is.  Secondly, they don't let US citizens vote
> in England's elections anyway.  Thats how the war started
> in the first place (the one that happened 230 yrs ago).
> 
> Point well taken however.  I am astounded daily at how
> profoundly dumb our species is or is becoming.
> 
> spike
> 
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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