Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Uncle Steve Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:53:37 -0500 Organization: Friends of the Galactic Collective Lines: 34 Message-ID: <35ef7479a5ec38c-dbbf9@gmail.com> References: <87mvsska3k.fsf@garlic.com> <638004010.473170649.277938.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <878u4b7swa.fsf@garlic.com> <5da6e2a8-6d9c-42fe-bdbe-524dc566083e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="451d67796bf6fcf36587c3e0e2ac5633"; logging-data="31829"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hosbIqJMKx/BgFLuf2LA3" User-Agent: nn 6.7.3 Content-Length: 1485 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8n+IiIgNl5jcJYNzSON7GIYQDnE= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:156163 On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 03:49:20PM +0000, jmfbahciv wrote: > > Let's not bother with peace. Endless war is clearly what the > > intelligence community and the MIC want, and at least if the majority > > of the fighting is overseas that will mean less warfare directed > > against domestic populations and their property. Even more, it will > > solidify the notion of a pernicious enemey of the West, which is a > > necessary factor in the psychology of Western citizens who would > > otherwise turn on their fellow citizens in order to supply that > > necessary enemy. > > That (turning on fellow citizens) is already being done using this > latest war as a cover. It's been happening for much, much longer than that. It starts in public schools with various forms of segregation, including but not limited to racial segregation or the "jocks" against the "eggheads", and solidifies into entrenched adult behavioural patterns which perniciously lurk beneath the paper-thin veneer of civilization. > > The notion that the public has any meaningful input to foreign policy > > is utterly absurd, but obviously a necessary fiction in the narrative > > of politics in which voting and elections are supposed to matter. > > It's the public which provides funding for those policies. Absurd > policies invariably get trashed becaue the public is still allowed > to choose their representation. In your dreams. -- We all cannot be intelligent, but at least we can all be polite.