<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 November 2013 04:48, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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We get unnecessarily tangled up in racys and archys today, monarchy,<br>
aristocracy, anarchy, yakkity-yak-acy, and bla-blarchy, but at the end of<br>
the day, the guy with the money is the ruler, and the guy with the<br>
technology has the money, so everything melts down to technocracy.<br></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The problem with you technophiles is you have no idea about history or real-world politics. Traditionally, Spike, the most vicious and cunning winds up at the top, and he then hires or coerces the one with the technology. If you applied your ideas to entire cultures, then, yes, the one with the technology wins (bronze, iron, stirrups, guns, free market capitalism) but the people at the top aren't always the ones with the technology, they are invariably the most politically adept (Stalin vs Trotsky). Big, big difference.<br>
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<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dwayne<br>-- <br> <a href="mailto:ddraig@pobox.com" target="_blank">ddraig@pobox.com</a> <a href="http://irc.bluesphereweb.com" target="_blank">irc.bluesphereweb.com</a> #dna<br> ...r.e.t.u.r.n....t.o....t.h.e....s.o.u.r.c.e...<br>
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