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Originally Posted by randolph
Yeah, I know you guys got your freedom from English domination without a revolution. Many peoples are not so lucky. The Egyptians endured a corrupt pseudo-democracy dominated by the Mubarak family who enriched themselves at the expense of the people.
We had our revolution and established the best and most powerful Democracy in the world. Where upward mobility was a given. Work hard and be rewarded for being thrifty and staying out of debt. Since the military/industrial complex has taken over the country, the middle class is being diminished and upward mobility is fading away. Only the rich are prospering. College graduates are languishing at home with their parents. The "lucky" ones find a job in fast food joints, Walmart or Home Depot. Why, because the rich have sucked all the money out of the system. We are now saddled with public debt far into the future.  |
Is that even a real thing, pseudo-democracy? It sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. What do they call it? Intellectual dissonance?
And I'm not so sure about the upward mobility and most powerful democracy stuff. Farming's always been hard work and at least in the South it was sharecropping all the way. Once the Industrial Revolution got going and cities began to develop the conditions for the workers were terrible. Case in point (if I am getting my history correct): there never was such a thing as "London fog." Care to guess what it was? It was very fine coal dust! Everything dirty and the presence of so many people packed into confined spaces is always a great way to spread disease.
There was child labor (for those times when tiny hands were an absolute must) and long long work hours. You know the eight hour day randolph, I don't. I imagine there were times when you cursed your boss for keeping you 2 hours longer or you cursed even those 8 hours because you wanted to be in your wife's arms or talk to your children. Imagine being driven like a dog. And imagine having to sacrifice your life in your struggle against the Rockefeller types of America in order to bring about worker's rights. And only then might it be possible for upward mobility to occur except this was tied to the utter destruction of any possible competition from the likes of Germany and Japan courtesy the world war, wasn't it (
not a rhetorical question)?
Women couldn't vote for the longest time because they are obviously mentally inferior to we men and a new form of math was discovered along with black men considering they were only 3/4 human. Curious. And once upon a time only landowners were allowed to vote. Or are we talking about the world post-1960s and all I'm doing is bringing the mood down to abysmal black here?
Post-college life does suck though. Tens of thousands of dollars in loans and no jobs around. Granted, all I want to do is write (novels, comic books, video games, maybe even nonfiction if the moon is blue and positioned just right in relation to the sun). This all began with Ronny did it not, the rise in college tuition? (I really would like an answer to that one, randolph...s if you feel like it). It is astounding to me that education is not free. You would think that something so vital and noble would be open to everybody.
And if I'm wrong about any of this then feed my brain.