tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post758351884914772176..comments2023-03-26T01:08:27.768-07:00Comments on Last Left Turn Before Hooterville: "The Price of Right" by Alicia Morgan - An Overview - Part 2Alicia Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14458700009032102949noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194369.post-20494286574512167752008-09-13T10:10:00.000-07:002008-09-13T10:10:00.000-07:00I had the sad thought that our 'democracy' - it is...I had the sad thought that our 'democracy' - it isn't one - is incompatible with structured power in the same way religious Utopia of mutual respect is too vulnerable to manipulation by those who 'push our buttons'.<BR/>Worse - the society we grew up in is incompatible with available resources and has both limits to possible spread and to duration.<BR/>I recall high school teaching politics as a horseshoe - a failed circle with the extremists of opposite polarity - totalitarism of either communist/Bolshevik or fascist/royalist/dictatorship blends being two sides of the same coin.<BR/>Anarchism is a failed idea because it lacks a framework to project its energy. Anything else is manipulated by more or less successfully competing idealogues 'selling' ideas : until we hit organized programming of the population being divorced from the feeble attempt at constraint afforded by religion and philosophy.<BR/>That is today : corporations run amok, intent on power by a long term plan which will ruin the planet as a habitation and institute serfdom/slavery on a scale of common control which dwarfs past empires.opithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01621946866211400380noreply@blogger.com