The Glade 4.0

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
Vladimir Lenin

So is our fall on purpose?

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I doubt very much that we can establish that anything has established on purpose because of an obscure quote by Lenin. That's a major leap in logic.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

You don't know anything!

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The Dude abides.

Not that this quote is the driving force behind what is going on but the ideal is being followed.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Whether it's consciously being used as a model, I'm not sure - I do believe it may turn out to be reality none-the-less.

Hell, it's been my sig for months.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I should read sigs more often.

...and then I read and really liked the sig above you and scrolled up and it was mine.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I've done that before. Have also read posts in old necroed threads and thought "Wow, that guy is spot-on! I agree wholeheartedly!" and get to the "QTF" stage before realizing "Oh, wait, I said that."

Your individual sovereignty will weaken inevitably. Society will also grow stronger as a whole inevitably. Inevitably = extremely high chance.

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"The map is not the territory."

At least you didn't get to the GOOMH stage. That could be disasterous.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Society is comprised of indviduals.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

Individuals tied together like the wheels on an axle.

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"The map is not the territory."

Did you pay attention in Physics? Even if that ridiculous analogy is valid, it still contradicts your point. The load carried in the axle is transmitted evenly throughout all the components. If one component weakens, the whole system has a weak point. There's no point to wheels that can transmit 1000 ft-lbs of torque without failure if the shaft shears at 10% of that.

So your sentiment of:



is still illogical.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones