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Apr 15, 2007 4:08:04 AM
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Is capitalism being replaced by a new feudalism? Clearly we do not live in an open, democratic meritocracy. Those with money have all the power over those without because of their ownership over the media and therefore the 'truth'. In many countries, those without are encouraged or forced to go to war to protect the capital interests of the rich elite. Is this not a symptom of feudalism?
The virtues of those who lead us have nothing to do with their path to power. Our leaders are not so because they are more intelligent or because they worked harder for the greater good. Our leaders are so because they have more money or they have the backing of those with more money. Their control is no longer physical, it is now economic and because we all have to work to pay our rent, to eat, to exist; we have become the peasants to the fat, greedy economic aristocracy.
Our political systems should not be based on material wealth but on intellectual wealth. Our currency not resources and cash but on questions, answers, ideas and hope. I don't claim to know how such a system would work, I am not a political scientist. What I do know is that I would rather die on my feet, free to imagine a universe of endless possibilities than live on my knees, at the mercy of those who payed to be kings and queens.
by Osiris
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