'That's why you'll always be in the chorus. I act. I make things happen.' Woody Allen in 'Mighty Aphrodite'
Mr. Allen notes certain kinds of people 'make things happen' in life. Others can't and never will. Some choose to try to defeat these creative geniuses-not by doing the thing better themselves--that would be too hard. Instead they try to in effect kill them, cause them to cease to exist.
- I refer to words, speech, and personality. The money to finance their eradication comes from pursuits that have hurt many innocent people, such as currency trading, hedge funds and the like. Can you imagine devoting years of your life and millions of dollars just trying to regulate speech?
- One is not born with it. It is learned among persons who are both cowards and bullies.
- It stifles the individual, seeks uniformity of thought. (There is even bigger money for investors and dictators when people are taught not to ask questions or speak out of turn. Such as global carbon trading schemes).
- It enslaves and renders passive the mind and spirit of the citizenry, but with enough time and money, people will resign themselves to it. There are sometimes financial rewards for doing so.
- It is the state of our society today.
- ""It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to
- love their servitude." -- Aldous Huxley (1962 speech at Berkeley)
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