citizenversusconsumer
citizenversusconsumer
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An inquisitive Earthling attempting to locate the core source of the human need for "one-upmanship." Why the cancer of capitalism versus the calm of anarchy/communism?
"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick [corporate] society." - Krishnamurti
"The values of competition, which allow us to accept the idea that somebody has to lose; the structure of hierarchy, which, by definition, creates power elites; and the techniques of domination and control, which dehumanizes and alienates all parties affected by their use, are the standards of group interaction with which we were all conditioned. There are but a few models in our society which offer an alternative."
"If war is the violent resolution of conflict, then peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather, the ability to resolve conflict without violence." - C.T. Butler
“They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” - Eugene V. Debs, American Labor Organizer, 1855-1926
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?" - Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"; Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)
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