Problems with People: pat donovan feb 7th 2011

World-revolution, my fanny! (Egypt is about to re-discover serious food problems, I betcha.)

I'll assume 'people' can be dumped into whole 'cultures' for this effort. It makes the treatment simpler, epically if you ONLY talk about the weaknesses in each system-type.

Greed, vanity and power are normal human weaknesses.

Politicians? On the whole, they can't run a hot-dog stand, and their prime executives are usually a mix of bullshit-artists and brute-force death-squads.

Reward and punishment by professional cannibal? Wanna a bet that well over 90% of any given society's laws are negative in nature?

Society, by it's very enforcing nature, is retarded and retarding. Intensely passionate cultures (romance xenophobic types. France, Italy) don't advance or adapt well.

Competitive ones (like Korea or the Sikhs) have their own problems. (Know any extreme jocks? Death before dishonor, right?)

Meeting payroll by theft doesn't always work well and bullies don't pump the water for very long

IMF takeovers of various water systems (and the rapid collapse of such, ie : Argentina + France.) demonstrates this. Privatization, so far, has tripled prices without any great increase in anything other than profits. (Alberta power)

So when the professional cannibals run out of things to steal, their whole system collapses. (After years of brute force attempts, usually. ie: Russia, China to follow.)

People-people, (vanity types) on the other hand, aren't very professional. They are seemingly incapable of doing a good job for anyone they don't like. And more education won't eliminate ordinary vanity politics, personal or otherwise.

Business types arrange monopolies (as fast as and.. ) any way they can. Then stagnate and watch standards degenerate.. (Ie: Hudson Bay fur company or water-quality stateside.)

Good luck with anything short of a revolution to break that subordinate-legislation aristocracy up. (Investment, mercantile and adventurism capitalism. HA! They're all merchants at heart.)

That's independent, authoritarian and self-control societies, as put by a certain old historical cow.

Cheap, legal AND harmless? Not really.

CEOs normally rotate between certain professions. accountant ($20 in sales for every $1 in profits makes tax-evasion and cost-cutting VERY worthwhile), lawyers (It's considered handy if you're a legal biz), engineers, (and the stuff works), and salesmen (ya gotta connect somehow).

What we are currently getting with our politicians is various attempts to go global-corp instead.

Exploitive, resource, demand and supply economies all being carved up by various regional power blocks.

Food, (Monsanto seeds) oil, services (water again, banking) and intellectual property are typical examples.

All this has managed to accomplish is to concentrate 90% of the wealth in the top 1% of the population. (Unless you consider China building LOTS of coal-fired power plants a plus. Indian MIGHT slow down on bride-burning, too.)

They've bet the farm, poured oil on the waters, locked the services up (banking) and look like they're trying to smother
all innovation with patent, copyright and trademark laws.

My goodness.

From my point of view, we're being force-fed into a electronic revolution here. (And me with a hyphen addiction to contend with, too.)

Anyone else here remember their grade 11 history, the stages of a revolution? After the bloodbath comes the fall-back.

Betcha we all end up in the fields one way or another.