A key feature of any future successful government would be the replacement of the class system with a hereditary caste system. A class system is a social hierarchy that groups individuals ascending by order of a social valuation and is only as effective as a civilization is at observing reality, as it is. A caste system is a natural hierarchy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘class war’
I value citizenship
American citizenship used to mean something. We live under a federal government that was designed in a very interesting and distinct way: certain functions were centralized, but many were given to the responsibility of the individual states. The way this country was colonized and eventually taken over, and due to its sheer size, each state [...]
Entitlement: The most obvious sign of civilization decay
Much has been said about civilization’s decay in this blog, focusing mainly on social reality and how we view ourselves first and then the goals of our society second. There is no more obvious a place to look for this phenomenon than in the idea of entitlement. Wealth is a touchy subject, because wealthy people [...]
The Neo-Neighborhood (Minus Culture)
Boston, and New England in general, has a lot to be proud of as it relates to early American history. Massachusetts housed one of the first settlements of what would become colonial America in Plymouth Plantation, and some of this country’s early, civil libertarian leaders and even Presidents came from Massachusetts. This nation was chock [...]
Welcome to The Fall
One of the more poignant lyrics of the late 1990s: All of us were taken All that was is gone Of this information Shames us one and all Wheres my compensation? Watching others fall Welcome to the fall Everything is useless Nothing works at all Nothing ever matters Welcome to the fall It reflected a [...]
Boston Globe Shuts Down Reader Comments On Controversial Issues
Some of the most controversial recent articles published on Boston.com have had comments shut down where normally, comments from users would soar and draw attention to an article or site. This includes a recent story about a(n) (il)legal immigrant apparently about to lose access to his health care: State lawmakers deleted money for immigrants’ health [...]
The Dunning-Kruger effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect states that incompetent people are also incompetent in assessing their own performance. Therefore, less competent people think their performance is competent, while smarter people focus on their own flaws. It explains, among other things, how in a society that places too much value on image, idiots and insane people are able to [...]
The split between responsible and irresponsible
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be [...]
Class war
I learned these hard lessons years ago and now think they’re obvious, so it’s hard for me to be civil when people with the blank open faces of the unthinking bleat these ideas at me. It’s almost insulting to hear someone who has put zero thought into an issue relative to what’s needed telling someone [...]
Why the war in Gaza continues
How third world nations destroy first world nations — population as a weapon: The population of the Gaza Strip increased by almost 40% between 1997 and 2007, according to the results of a Palestinian census. The survey, taken before Israel’s recent offensive, showed the territory has a population of 1.4 million people. The Palestinian Central [...]
