As the arguments mount that the social contract are collapsing, even the<br>italians, always in the last guard of acknowledging demographic disasters, <br>are confiming, as declared by papal bull from the Bank of Italy, that western<br>
societies are clenched shut in place. Losers and underachievers and the<br>geneticaly despicale can no longer be meted out punishment and banished<br>to the dantes inferno of Underclass, whereas those "good people" that by<br>
virtue of manifest destiny, good intentions, sound morals, good genes and<br>a halo - are no longer able to ascend into the plush heavens up spoiled <br>upper classism.<br><br>The sociopaths on the right, as well as the xenophobic impotents on the left<br>
maintain the disgusting trench warfare, shooting the same arguments back<br>and forth. People are waking up their have little to win on ths mutually<br>excludist clusterfuck and looking for alternatives, Pretty soon the stalemate<br>
will be broken and he old infantile dichotomy of left and right, good and evil, <br>blue versus red, cowboys versus indians will end.<br><br>...but not without a fight. As leftist idiots seek to take vengeance on the <br>
corporate caste, by gathering up votes and burning the amassed treasures<br>of thebankers in the streets to roast livestock they nationalized from the<br>grounds of Mister Burns, the rightwing political elite are still working hard <br>
to erode the state itself, throw society back into a damage control state<br>and laugh laugh LAUGH at the ghettoes and favellas, as the righteous <br>and virtuous laugh laugh LAUGH at the damned in hell. <br><br>This is evolutionary push for a third way - something that can protect the <br>
interest of humans faced with being faced with third world attrition - and <br>something that can stimulate people to achieve as must as they can. <br><br>My expectation is it will involve basic incomes. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/2/18 Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
According to a report published not by some fringe Trozkist group, but<br>
by the Bank of Italy, it would appear that social mobility in Italy<br>
has by now been reduced to a practical *zero*, even amongst contiguous<br>
classes, irrespective of the succession of governments.<br>
<br>
In other words, super-rich are bound to stay super-rich, middle-class<br>
people middle-class, blue-collar blue-collar and dropouts dropouts.<br>
<br>
This vastly exceeds whatever hypothetical role genetic traits may play<br>
in the achievement and maintaining of social positions in western<br>
societies and illustrates how routine, "humanitarian" attacks from the<br>
"left" against presumed Social Darwinist penchants in the conservative<br>
discourse deal in fact with a strayman, since no matter how weak,<br>
stupid, misfit and handicapped you are, your chances are today the<br>
best ever of your remaining nevertheless in the position you were<br>
born, and to have your children just do the same; while conversely<br>
being strong, clever, driven, etc. does not seem to change much in<br>
your lot, except perhaps in giving you more chances to become the war<br>
chief of a youth gang. Today, Howard Roark and John Galt would have<br>
clearly been employees in a post office, if this had been their<br>
parents' work.<br>
<br>
The fact that most people, including those relatively underprivileged,<br>
seem also to believe, owing perhaps also to an aging population, that<br>
they have more to lose than to gain from any change to such scenario<br>
may also explain why bioconservatism remains so popular. "Avoid<br>
rocking the boat" sounds as a the primary slogan in an increasingly<br>
Brave-New-Worldish scenario... :-(<br>
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Stefano Vaj<br>
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