Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: Read it; the US is a corporation designed as a protection racket

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[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong, undivided government.

oh, no wonder it is being pushed! /s

[–]Jesus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

You have to read enemy territory because they often blatantly write what they are going to do or what they have done in their work. The book os a good read for the simple reason that it allows you to see how these legal players work in creating a debt collecting human resource corporation. Itonic that it would have to come from one of them.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

i know already what they are doing, like i need even more commie propaganda

[–]Jesus[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Well yeah, but they add in a little fascism, and Bureaucratic feudalism for the lolz.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

yeah. fascism AND bureaucratic feudalism. sounds like fun. o.O

they are really dragging us back to the dark ages.

[–]Jesus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's the point, but it has existed and has only gotton worse since Lincoln's reign who was easily disposable. In fact, the European nobility and Frankfurt Jews who came to America to rule it with an iron fist found that chattel slavery was not needed anymore, instead wage slavery would sufice and boom and bust cycles with deep inflation and permanant public debt with a centralized buerucratic government would be erected.

Basically, they used abolition as a means to rule. And look at the heroic people Neocons, neoliberals and the unwittin public worship today! Hamilton and Lincoln.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

is this from leviathan?

[–]Jesus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, just from my research. Reading 19th century senate hearings.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

sounds involving!