World Politics | August 15, 2009 | 2 comments

The End is Here

source: http://jonraymond.blogspot.com/2009/08/end-is-here.html

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? How about if our troops kill a million innocent Iraqis and none of it is reported (no pictures, no video). Did it happen? What about if five billion people around the world decide to stop using banks and the present day financial infrastructure has to rely on corporate social welfare to survive, but they eventually fade away anyway. Did they ever really exist? I mean, the money we all have is our money. Even if it's in a bank, it's our money. Take the bank away and it's still our money. Banks are a mere illusion that charge fees for a show.

Suppose they gave a war and no one showed up? Suppose a lot of filmmakers (tired of playing Hollywood games) went out and made their own films, self-distributed them and banded together to help each other in what eventually became an alternate movie industry of and by real filmmakers instead of executive fat cats who do nothing but collect dust, money, and hookers. Suppose said fat cats disappeared from the movie scene altogether. Were they ever really there to begin with? I mean the filmmakers still make their movies with or without them.

What if people stopped using insurance companies altogether and got the government to be there for them in case of medical emergencies and accidents, just like the police and firefighters, and then no one would have to dole out 30% to insurance company administrators? Would those administrators have ever really existed?

If you were one of the million plus Iraqis who was killed, and who saw your family, friends, neighborhood, and country annihilated before your eyes, I think that would qualify as your rapture. By the same token, if you're a conservative authoritarian who lives by the rule of law and order and follows whatever the current law and order of the day has been determined to be by whoever is in charge, but then things suddenly turned on you and suddenly there was no law and order as you once knew it, there was no democracy or free market capitalism, and there was absolutely nothing you could do about it (What can you do? Drop a nuke on Wall Street?) - if all of that were the reality (which it is by the way) would that be your rapture?

The end is here.


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2 comments // The End is Here

  • Nozlo
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      Nozlo  

    • Speaking from the UK I can answer one of your questions. Our National Health Service which is funded by the taxpayer means that the vast majority of UK citizens rely on the government to supply all their medical needs from cradle to grave. And therefore I can confirm that the insurance company administrators do not exist here as they were never here in the first place. From this it could be argued that if the US did adopt an NHS type system (and it is a very big if) then the US administrators would almost all disappear. There would of course be some who would find work in private health insurance companies which exist here too.

      But, having said all that the NHS has thousands of administrators! So whatever your healthcare system they'll be there somewhere.

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  • natalie44
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