actually it’s a series combining ron paul and chomsky. nwo, and all that.

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“thanks mpolzkill. Great last line on your reply too”

No problem, and thank you, Jon.

This is it for clever Paul fans (check out the not-so-clever ones on the forum) who missed the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT6ywTZ-_8c

“we’ve only Ron to blame”

Righty right right, I’m sure you’ve seen this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1h1lWhOG1Q

I guess I’d have to write a book to explain it, but fortunately I don’t have to if you read that “People’s Pottage” I was telling you about. Of course there’s not a borg, it’s a mindset, one to me best described as a Marxoid one.

Of course there’s a ruling class, they’re the ones who live materially better than we do despite only ever doing productive work rarely and by chance. There isn’t anything natural about the size of this class beginning to suffocate us with its weight and insane stupidity, there’s never been one so large and a population in history so utterly befuddled by it. Of course it took an unnatural effort to make this so. In your country for instance, you don’t think the Fabian Society worked like demons? Maybe you’re fooled by the fact that they didn’t win elections.

In short again, the ultra wealthy largely adopted Marx’s tenets in order to solidify power and better pacify the masses. The whole thing has morphed to be sure, making a straight Marxist like this unfortunate soul here seem quaint. If he were a dogmatic Darwinist he would seem quaint, but by this you would deny Darwin’s influence on biology?

And I don’t trust this whole idea of “ruling classes” either (although I’m pretty sure Elwin’s tongue was in his cheek). There’s no Borg, no global committee for corporatist control that meets twice a month and takes minutes. The growth of the state is organic, it’s a natural process, it’s in the nature of the state to expand. And it’s perfectly natural for private interests to form strong and corrupting relationships with the government. You don’t need an agent directing society in this direction. It’s just a natural product of avoiding personal responsiblity and looking to the friggin’ government to take care of everything. As government grows, private influences will attempt to engage and control it for their own ends. The answer is not more government, less private actors, but more private actors competing free of government interference.

The protagonist on this page reminds me of stories of those old Japanese soldiers running around deserted Pacific islands 30, 40, 50 years after WW2 ended, still watching for the Allies. Marxism is finished. It’s dead. It’s only interest is historical. It has nothing to offer the future.