[ExI] Cephalization, proles--Where is government going?

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Sat May 14 01:44:08 UTC 2011


2011/5/13 Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>:
> The 'heavy hand of government' is how we bend current society into one of
> freedom.  Think of it this way: at any point in time, you may 'free'
> society.  Obviously this will have different effects depending on the
> current world situation.  If society were freed now, certain interested
> groups would become far too powerful.
>
> At the heart of it, no matter how much one theoretically masturbates to the
> idea of pure freedom, the truth is that the groups who would dominate
> today's society, if it was freed, are the same groups run by people who have
> absolutely no problem with (even an inclination to) human exploitation for
> profit.
>
> Do you understand?  There is no theory.  Many of the richest people today
> became that way by commodifying the lives of humans who relied on the money
> to live, because the corporations themselves do not allow people to LIVE
> FREELY!  Their monopolization is a boundary to true liberty.
> I know many of you can intuit that something about liberty is special, but
> that doesn't mean we can just go there now.  These things take steps.

### Read on "People's Romance":

http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_10_1_1_klein.pdf

It's pitiful how humans willingly submit to the boot, and praise it, too.

Rafal




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