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In reply to the discussion: Can We Just Agree that Everything is Fake? The American Aristocracy is Real. [View all]hunter
(38,436 posts)The oligarchy will not tolerate a redistribution of their stolen wealth.
At this point we are afraid of them. We need to make them afraid of us.
I'm not advocating violence in any way, but things like widespread strikes and boycotts, or any number of more creative actions will begin to make them nervous.
Turning off and refusing to pay for their propaganda services is a good way to start. We used to pay for cable, then we went to satellite, then we went to broadcast only, now our television is strictly a DVD player. I haven't seen any television this year, and I'm beginning to see the world a different way.
Sweden is a "first world" nation, and it would be a great improvement if we tweaked our economic system to look theirs instead of the Mexico-like economy we have now, but I also think we could create something better. We ought to be thinking of something beyond money.
There's now enough computing power and networking available that we no longer have to distill the "value" of everything down to a single currency. There are other ways of distributing resources and energy fairly and transparently.