The Baiters of Illusions

junyabee:
Our liberties and freedoms are smothered and strangled not by governments, but by our own pedestrian acts and habits that give enabling justification for and by which 'the governing' bring the final coup de grace to what's left of what we have begun to strangle.....

Outbackjack: To an extent but Marx was right when he said "The ideas of any society are the ideas of its ruling class."

junyabee:
Even worse, when those rules are cohered to a Stockholm Syndrome-wise by the ruled, making them the operatives of the ruling class

Outbackjack: You are preaching to the converted.

junyabee: (KNOCKED OVER WITH A FEATHER-LEFT SPEECHLESS!!)
Absolutely the last thing I've heard from ANYbody over decades!!