[ExI] totalitarian techniques

[William Flynn Wallace]

And some just love blood and guts and stomping on the faces of their
enemies- money is a side issue.  Notice how tyrants let their soldiers
pillage.  If I were a tyrant I'd want everything put on tables where I
could select what I want!

bill w

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:22 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] totalitarian techniques
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> >…Spike, you keep making these grand statements which are not even
> arguably true.  Lack of money did not stop all the tyrants in history (I
> will grant you that some of them 'perceived' a lack of money).  …   bill w
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> Ah, the tyrants prove my contention.  Money is power.  Power is money.
> Two different forms of the same thing, like matter and energy.  Tyrants
> wanted more money thru more power.  Most of government today is all about
> getting more power thru more money.
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> Billw, it’s all very simple.  It’s all power and money, programmed into
> our brains by societal evolution, explained nicely by the discipline of
> evolutionary psychology.
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