Nice polemic. With deep respect for both titans of history, economics and
metaphysics, lipsmacked with earnest opinion, I
beg m'lords, for tiny eye-time,
a screenshot of a tangible, physical shard of evidence to substantiate learned
alleged long ago imaginary happenings. Say, a gnawed ankle, a dirt-packed
bowel, a petrified turd, a skull showing insertion of tiger-tooth fact and
sucked dry of bloody ideological superiority.
This is stanky cypherpunks, not a Mar a Lago butler SM account.
At 05:37 PM 5/21/2016, Robert Hettinga wrote:
> On May 21, 2016, at 9:14 AM, John Young <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Got proof?
Depends on if youâre a Marxist and think that
money steals power, or an anarchist and thinks
that power steals money. The latter grabs the
market-elephant blindly, the former sucks giant
donkey dicks in the Tijuana Donkey show of force, fraud, and plunder.
As an example of what Peter might have been
alluding to, Pompey and Julius were rich Roman
guys who got richer in the conquering trade,
Pompey going east after pirates and then eastern
kings, and Julius going after, well, Gaul,
actually. And then, you know, Rome, after that.
But, like I said, itâs older than that. Since
people started staying in one place in middle
Anatolia about 12-18,000 years ago, about five
thousand years before they actually started
cultivating the wheat they were harvesting every
year and moving out from there down the Tigris
and Euphrates and Nile and out into Fair Europa,
all farmers -- and then mechanics -- since have
been subject to the depredations of former
hunter-gatherers who plundered them for their
âsurplusâ assets. And priestly former
scavengers who told them lies of pie in the sky
when they die to justify the actions of the guys
who, you know, beat the fuck out of you if you didnât pay up.
Because, like dogs, and hyenas, they could.
Now the priests are academics, the media, and
legislative politicians. The Hunter/gatherers
are either professional military (mostly
harmless
) or plundering proto-warlord
aristocrats like, come to think of it, all four
current extant presidential hopefuls, and the
current occupant of Adamsâ Edifice.
There. Howâs that?
Cheers,
RAH
