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[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

It would be another story if there were safeguards against the corruption, unfairness, and exploitation of ideas, including but not just Marx. The powers that shouldn't be don't want safeguards and would oppress and suppress them if there were.

[–]InvoluntaryHalibut 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Like legal safeguards? Haven’t we already tried that shit? If you try to control society through lawyers the lawyers become corrupt. Lawyers and judges are just corrupt priests of the “government is magic” religion.

There are natural safeguards against corruption and unfairness. When everyone in a society is closely related to each other, like Iceland for example, there is incentive not to screw each other over, because of the selfish gene concept.

Also people that are related tend to evolve under a common set of cultural rules, and are more able to follow those rules than a genetic “outsider”.

Cultural rules are not just taught— we evolve to exploit them more efficiently. Different cultural regimes make sense for different environments. Europeans have been evolving under totally different conditions from Sub-saharan africans or other genetic groups. Its absurd that you can get everybody to follow the same set of rules by passing a bunch of laws.

A large number of the bankers, lawyers, political class, media have evolved within a cultural regime totally different than the typical european. Their survival strategy is to live within and off of other people’s societies while remaining exclusive and distinct culturally and genetically. Like all other societies, they exist to benefit themselves. The unfairness of their strategy to others is irrelevant to them. You are expecting that a related group of people within the bureaucracy will implement policies to protect the larger population from themselves. They are never going to do that.

[–]copenseethe 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

"bankers, lawyers, political class, media"

Are you talking about the Episcopalians?

[–]InvoluntaryHalibut 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Its the presbyterians! Read between the lines!