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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 04:37 AM EDT |
<Or is that a bit harsh?>
Not harsh at all and pretty much hits the mark. It makes one
wonder whats actually going on here behind the scenes.
Patent to schedule group events... give me a break, where is
there any kind of inventive step in that?
The patent system as we know it must be abolished, it is
very bad for innovation and everybody is losing all the way
around. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 05:19 AM EDT |
"Do you USAians have any idea how foolish this makes you look?"
I seriously hope you don't equate the people with the laws that govern us... We
know the legal machines that we created are running amok, and ignoring their
original constitutional programming.
Find me a country where this isn't true.
The fact is, because law has set itself up to be hard to change -- Indeed, even
a court ruling sets "precedence" which are hard to argue down, even
when they are ridiculously wrong.
We've been essentially neutered of any real power to change our government.
I've yet to find a single US citizen who thinks the government ISN'T corrupt,
and in need of serious change -- Yet, there no substantial change?
The executive branch is now making LAW! They're negotiating treatise like TPP
and ACTA in secret and ignoring the facts that this is unconstitutional. Their
right to do so expired.
We've been in a permanent "state of emergency" since 9/11, even though
such a thing is only allowed a two year maximum duration.
The government and corporations are out of our control. We're under an
Intangible Idea-Machine invasion. The Cybernetic legal entities are immoral and
seem to have reached a critical mass hellbent on amassing profit while
mindlessly destroy our society.
Hint: If the few gobble up all the resources, the many suffer. Do not the needs
of the many outweigh the needs of the few? Sadly the idea-machines' legal
structures are designed to normalize out any rational human input -- Get a CEO
to do the right thing, and your stock holders oust you. There's no such thing
as a long term goal anymore.
Would you call the slaves foolish for being born into slavery? If so, then it
is you who are the fool.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 05:54 AM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 06:24 AM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 07:19 AM EDT
- Bug analysis: USA power structure - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 08:33 AM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 08:36 AM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: PJ on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 10:33 AM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 11:27 AM EDT
- a quote - Authored by: sumzero on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 11:47 AM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 12:03 PM EDT
- Right on the nose there I' think - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 12:29 PM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 07:07 PM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 07:32 PM EDT
- The people aren't foolish, the laws are. - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 07:22 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2012 @ 07:44 PM EDT |
Having lived in the US I have often wondered about this and have concluded that
there is a kind of blind spot in the US psyche.
There is this trick you do where you put yourself in the other guys shoes and
try to see their point of view. For some reason Americans are VERY BAD at this.
They have trouble seeing the world from anything other than an American point of
view. I don't think it is concious hypocrisy. They really don't see the double
standard. If you try to point it out you meet incomprehension. In their world
view the US isn't a nation like other nations. It is the US, a special case.
Lets look at an example. Consider the Cuban missile crises. The US had stationed
nuclear weapons right along the Russian border in West Germany and in Turkey
over the strong objections of the Russians. These had a flight time of minutes
to Moscow. The Russians looked for a proportionate response. They decided to put
nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Non-Americans look at this history and see that the Russians were simply
responding in kind as best they could under the limitations of geography.
However because of the US blind spot Americans were completely unable to see any
similarity at all between between the US putting nukes in Germany and Turkey,
and the Russians putting nukes in Cuba.
And so the US threatened to blow up the world and destroy all human life if the
nukes were not withdrawn from Cuba. Attempts by the Russians to suggest the
obvious quid pro quo by which US nukes were also moved away from Russian border
(most likely their real objective) ran into that blank incomprehension I was
talking about earlier and were simply ignored. The Americans just could see that
the two issues were related.
The Russians initially this was a bluff. I think it was the British ambassador
in the end who finally managed to convince the Russian ambassador that the
Americans were in fact not bluffing and were deadly serious. As a species we all
came within inches of being annihilated by this American blind spot. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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