well i’m only a derivative thinker because the stars say so. capricorns don’t usually start projects, but they finish the fuck out of em. so that’s what i gotta do. i’m am marx’s ambassador at ILP. it is my fate.
bro. i stopped doing philosophy before you made your first ‘clan of hooded philosophers’ video walking around in circles in your room. rememba that one? i do. it was pedro’s big debut.
The genealogy of democracy you laid out then was horrible. Your tiredness of it was palpable, and otself determined in part the low quality of the analysis.
my videos were crap, dude. the babbling meanderings of a drunk nomadic van dweller. but look, that bit about democracy is still right. when you distribute executive power more evenly among peoples and groups, the decision making process becomes much more efficient. the evolution of democracies were forced; individuals could no longer solve problems single-handedly because they became too complex. democracy had arrived before it was even conceptually invented by the geeks. just that nobody understood that yet… and even tried to hold it back because it distributed power out of the hands of autocratic entities of state.
Look to European countries if you want examples, evidence, and proof. Would “Spain” still be Spanish, if Frenchmen came into the country, married all the women, and started speaking French? No, it wouldn’t. Spain would cease to exist.
I don’t know who you are arguing against, but I don’t think people believe that wealth is a measure of personal value inasmuch as other factors, as I’ve repeated, such as familial, tribal, and ethnic ties. Hence the single-mother working two full-time jobs, does so, because of and for her child, not the other way around. People aren’t ‘loyal’ to work, compared to family, except in some cases where people have no family, which is also a rather common occurrence (in the US). Most of the middle-to-low ‘class’, is in this lowly position, because they have broken families and no familial loyalty.
The top 1% of the top 1% is a non-issue, a moot point. Usually this piece of the pie represents Monopolization, as you use in your example. Monopolies have been attacked by the US government before, and will be again, when such corporations gain too much power and political leverage. There is already a hidden-war going on over manipulation of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, by their political leverage and bias. One political party will prevent the other from using this leverage to benefit over the competition.
Furthermore, in a Capitalist society, you are free to invest $100,000,000 into stocks and markets of your choosing. If you become a billionaire doing this, which is a risk, then Welcome to the top 1% of the top 1%. You earned it. It wasn’t free. Monopolies are gained through ruthless competition.
Is the US imbalanced? Compared to what? The Soviet Union? It seems that the US is just fine, economically. Personally, I would attack political corruption before corporate corruption. Corporations actually have specific functions. And they actually do work.
As the chasm between rich and poor deepens, civil unrest, like the yellow vests movement that started in France, will grow, more people will donate to, form, join and vote for 3rd parties, and even if they never get in, it’ll put pressure on libcons and republicrats to change.
At least in rhetoric, the left and right are turning away from (crony) capitalism to socialism, the left to international, matriarchal, progressive class warfare socialism and the right to national, patriarchal, conservative class collaboration socialism.
Donald Trump’s protectionism and rhetoric about illegals for example are forms of national, class collaboration socialism.
Shit. ‘Miscegination’ is itself probably what has made the Jews the greatest people on Earth.
Wherever you go, whatever you do, a Jew does it better.
Race isn’t real. Genetics doesn’t work that way. Discrimination is real, and quite necessary. But attaching it to race severely limits its scope, power, effectiveness, and point.
Having said all of that, i will massively backtrack and admit, some stability is good.
But check it. Venezuela was a happy place. And the genetic variety was outstanding. But even the variety had been sort of stable for hundreds of years. We were, in a sense, a homogenity. Then a massive influx of Europeans absolutely wrecked all.