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Arraya, if life is as predisposed as you or the social “scientists” claim, why put on your pants in the morning (figuratively speaking)…life should whisk you away on its forethought conveyer belt. This mindset (true or otherwise) would make a Calvinist blush. To loosely paraphrase Nitche, the only thing more depressing than religion is science…because in religion the universe is all about you, but in science you are less than insignificant, you are nothing…[/quote]

It is quite disturbing to people that we are unbelievably malleable and controlled like herd animals by a small few but all evidence points to it. Left and right alike.

your job as a consumer is to maintain consumer confidence and take on debt, if you have means. If you don’t have means, your job is to blame yourself and keep the faith.

Essentially we are production machinery for keeping the system running. The elites hold that the common good is an undefinable and therefor empty notion. They maintain that it is up to society’s leaders (them) to tell the masses what is in their own interests. They snatch up every corner of add space to foster the myth that consumer choice is synonymous with democracy (including brand blue and brand red politics). They justify America’s decadent economic inequality as necessary for the “accumulation of capital” (the “rising tide floats all boats” gem). They engage in military campaigns abroad to spread the “good news” of capital, privatized national resources, and bourgeois consumerism