

Apparently they missed the first study's conclusions












It also contains alarming language, such as:





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RE: America is ruled by idiots
By Breakfast Susej on 3/17/2011 6:42:53 PM , Rating: 5
One of the unfortunate and ultimately fatal flaws of democratic society. No human political system is anywhere near adequate much less perfect mind you. But if it were easy to dream up a perfect solution someone might have by now.

It is my fear that western society will inevitably be crushed under it's own decadence as we become more and more reliant on other cultures to provide us with the cheap goods our corporations use to keep us all placated in an orgy of spending and consumption.

At least that is what it seems like more and more to me. We exist only to consume all the gadgets, toys, media, and other nonsense. All these material goods we don't actually need that we wear the yoke around our necks churning away, working for, to show our status among each-other. All the while blind to what it really exists for. To keep us churning away and passing our dollars up the line to the ruling class who is holding the carrot on the stick in front of our face saying, look! You too can be rich like us if you just work, work, work(but you never will because in reality you are just throwing all your earnings down the status tube to buy the shit you don't need, blunt your misery with material goods, and make them even richer.)

Meanwhile the rising nations such as China who work slave labor to make all these goods to pander to our ego's our desires, our never ending pageant of status and wealth, continue to labor away, eclipsing us in knowledge, numbers, and initiative.

Eventually the rising nations will throw off the yoke and grind our fat decadent uneducated selves beneath their boot. Or at least this is what I fear when I think about society at length.

Maybe I just need a tinfoil hat, or maybe it ultimately doesn't matter, at least to me. Since I will be long dead(or so I hope,) by the time that day dawns.

RE: America is ruled by idiots
By Pirks on 3/17/11, Rating: 0
By Breakfast Susej on 3/18/2011 12:07:57 PM , Rating: 2
I try not to base my conclusions in such a way as to let an opinion piece that I read on a tech site be the single deciding factor in where the wind blows my opinion any given day.

Nor would I be as presumptuous to call someone out as wrong on an ultimately philosophical opinion point based on yet another opinion point that I read.

