[Leica] Warning: There is nothing in here worth your life

[scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)]

agreed!
people are being deliberately manipulated into using their archicortex and
chronically operate in survival mode
because it keeps them from paying attention to so many important issues.
and now with people unable to retire at 55 there are fewer and fewer people
attending council meetings
and monitoring democracy at even the local level, a situation that is only
going to get worse
as there is an obvious and concerted campaign to make people who still have
good pensions feel GUILTY
for doing so.

it so happened that just yesterday i was reading the arguments president
truman put forth when he vetoed first the McCarran Act of 1950 and again
the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952.

naturally truman was not supported by the spineless democrats and the
McCarranites overrode both his vetoes.

"Truman vetoed the Act because he regarded the bill as "un-American" and
discriminatory. His veto message said:

Today, we are "protecting" ourselves as we were in 1924, against being
flooded by immigrants from Eastern Europe. This is fantastic...We do not
need to be protected against immigrants from these countries?on the
contrary we want to stretch out a helping hand, to save those who have
managed to flee into Western Europe, to succor those who are brave enough
to escape from barbarism, to welcome and restore them against the day when
their countries will, as we hope, be free again....These are only a few
examples of the absurdity, the cruelty of carrying over into this year of
1952 the isolationist limitations of our 1924 law. In no other realm of our
national life are we so hampered and stultified by the dead hand of the
past, as we are in this field of immigration.

Truman's veto was overridden by a vote of 278 to 113 in the House and 57 to
26 in the Senate."

sound familiar?

making people always think in terms of stark survival leads to predictable
choices that in turn can be very profitable.
and the people who are corralled into ghettoes predictably end up hurting
each other instead.

it was fascinating to see how quickly social infrastructures collapse.
i was in kuwait during the invasion in august 1990.
the first day there were iraqi tanks everywhere shelling buildings while
next to them there were people
waiting for the public bus, which arrived on time and picked them up.
the public bus service ran on time the next 2 days too.
the 4th day the iraqis drove all the buses into iraq and there went bus
service.

the sadder thing for me was watching people stop respecting red lights at
intersections.
everyone followed traffic laws the first 4 days too.
then it became a free for all with rampant flouting.
so clearly, social order was just imposed on them from the outside.
it was not part of them.
unlike in japan!

my father never ever ran a red light even then in occupied kuwait and
everyone smirked at him.

and when we were in the no-man's land camp between iraq and turkey
some men commandeered the water tap and would refuse to let me fill my
bottle.
controlling the tap seemed important to them on some level which i have
never understood.
which was really interesting as they were escapees from kuwait just the
same as i
and we were all in the camp equally just waiting for the turkish border
guards to let people in.
standing there that day i understood the power of the archicortex in
controlling their behaviour.
had i been able to question them 5 years later they themselves may have
found it hard to explain their behaviour.
i was 20 years old then.
and became a neurologist.
bharani


Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:42:40 -0500
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Been following this thread and think a much larger is issue being
ignored or missed.