Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Read ALL of THIS 2
To worry about Governments as the ACTOR in world events is like believing the Police are an independent force, manifesting their own will and policy.
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/
An indirect point, not made in the article: Had the British East India Company not destroyed the balance of its tyrannical Bengali trade concession, there would have likely been no American revolution. The continent would likely have gone on the Canada model.
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The best thing I learned from that article was the term, "The Colonization of Time". I may not use it the same way as the author, but I love that term.
When you see your working life in terms of the amount of your time it takes to support a basic lifestyle, you can't see our recent economic history as anything but a march toward a new indentured servitude.
I may be part of one of the last generations for whom escape from this slavery on your own terms was possible.
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Yeah. This guy can even extract the value of a book from Global Apologist Fareed Zakaria. A read-and-a-half.