tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750239339662593269.post7349792290270589620..comments2023-11-02T05:19:59.640-05:00Comments on Delusions of Truth: When the world is privatizedKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750239339662593269.post-1128750409722907402017-07-06T16:15:55.252-05:002017-07-06T16:15:55.252-05:00QUANTUM BINARY SIGNALS
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Each year 2 children (1 boy and 1 girl) are reaped from their district, selected to play in the Hunger Games for the pleasure of the Capitol, the Capitol's citizens, and as a reminder that the Capitol has all power and should never be rebelled against again.<br /><br />The games consist of these kids (ages 12-18) killing each other. The last one alive wins, and with the win comes food for life, money and a house in a "victor's village" for the victor and his/her family. It is a highly disturbing book, but one that paints a picture of not only similar actions of past civilizations, but I think a portrait of modern-day and future corporations and politics.<br /><br />Think about how corporations act today: If you, an individual, tried to sue them you lose. They throw out all their power, their money, all their resources to crush you. They make you feel like you don't deserve to live and that the Corporation has the "right" to act any way it wants.<br /><br />I suggest the book if you haven't read it (the second "Catching Fire" just came out as well). I was disturbed by the imagery of kids killing each other so violently, but more disturbing is the people of the Capitol view it as entertainment, as a Game. It's sick, violent, but it speaks not only of history but of present-day attitudes practiced by the large corporations (and political structures) of the world.<br /><br />You have some good thoughts, keep up the good work!G-Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15643815147549753677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750239339662593269.post-70117271102712745542009-09-28T16:20:50.269-05:002009-09-28T16:20:50.269-05:00I like how you mentioned capitalistic freedoms. Y...I like how you mentioned capitalistic freedoms. You remind me of a problem which has been growing for decades: the inability to see that big business is not the same as the free market and in fact it is often harmful to the free market.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1750239339662593269.post-78990626786042071872009-09-28T14:28:49.837-05:002009-09-28T14:28:49.837-05:00You are sounding like a conspiracy theorist! What...You are sounding like a conspiracy theorist! What are you, wacko?<br /><br />I'm just kidding, I happen to agree with you; not because you say it but because I have seen it, lived it myself.<br /><br />Personally I despise both corporations and government and don't think either should own as much as they do, but that is definately the direction that we are headed. I'm sorry, I'm not an idealist, I don't believe government has "the people's" best interest at heart...and corporations definately don't.<br /><br />Banks have taken over homes but are not releasing all of them back into the inventory of the market, why? Because they want to stay the tide of falling house prices. Nobody is buying US debt anymore...oh wait, the Federal Reserve is, why? To maintain interest rates at artificially low levels.<br /><br />Nobody even cares about the US dollar (don't get me started on that one).<br /><br />Even our courts are influenced by corporations and make rulings not based on law, until they rule and create the law, but based on the best interest of the corporation who owns the courts (personal experience on that one...there's definately corruption even in our court system).<br /><br />There are a lot of selfish people making a lot of bad choices, but one thing we live with on this earth is that people are free to choose. I'm not talking about cultural or political restrictions on women or other people in the world, even those women are physically able choose to speak out, however it would mean death to them, but the choice to speak is still theirs. This freedom to choose has created great people, willing to give their life and lives to better other people's. But there's also a lot who use that freedom to usurp the political or capitalisitc freedoms of others in a manner which ultimately harms mankind. It sucks, but we can't take that power from them. We can try to punish those doing harm, but we've got to find a way around the already corrupt laws that protect them in the first place.<br /><br />What we can do is choose to fight the system in the manner we deem most beneficial and effective. We do own less and less, and maybe the future brings ownership of nothing, and that's how some people want it. Some people don't want to even own their actions, saying that they are just working on behalf of the "company" or "the man" or whomever you view as the cause of your loss of everything you thought you used to own.<br /><br />Nice post. Sorry I wrote so much, it just got me going a bit. :)G-Rebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15643815147549753677noreply@blogger.com