i agree, it's very draining. you have to deal with prejudice, stupidity and the narrow-minded people who have been mentally trapped in this oligarchy ever since they were born

I couldn't agree more. It's not just that people don't value knowledge it's also the fact they've been beaten down so much they simply don't have the will or the fight, Chomsky said words to that effect in manufacturing consent. I fall into that camp, sometimes I really feel like giving up the fight against people who just don't get all this because it's draining. It also hasn't done my mental health any favours. I'll carry on doing what I can though. The best I can do is educate myself.

You have a point. The problem is that the media, coupled with the military and corrupt politicians results in a very powerful brainwashing system that misleads the public. The conscious misinformation of the masses has lead to an extremely prejudiced population with no education or will to learn anything. In my opinion it is the task of every individual to break free from the grip of propaganda,but to do that you need knowledge. And how do you gain knowledge in a society that doesn't value it?

Unfortunately there isn't the educated populace that Marx said was required for a communist society. Any Marxist revolution now will just end up a pretend Marxist state like the USSR was.

the answer is corporatism, or in its former name; fascism

How does Globalization impacts governments,policy and political decision making?

The Hamilton Tariff Act of 1789 protected American workers from cheap foreign labor untill the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 passed. The tariff was the governments number 1 source of income.I believe a tariff is badly needed now. At least give American Workers a fighting chance.

yep, thats true

You mean the industries that employs them makes a killing. For average Americans immigrants only create more job competition.

The 3 conditions for a Marxist revolution are present:1. Strong nationalism in developed countries2. Production going on outside of the consumer countries3. Machines replacing humansPS: Chomsky is the best

lol the USA makes a killing out of immigrants

So government allows the wealth of its middleclass to be re-destributed across the third world because of cheap labor. Where are all of those thinking jobs, according to Peter Schiff the country will reach 25% unemployment next month. thats the same as the great depression. Tensions should not stop the U.S. Government from securing our borders. Do you know that 40% of the residents of the U.S. are not native born.

look I get the point here, I think we both have the same goals in mind, its just that you believe its shit is happening via conspiracy, and I believe its simply the ugly side of human nature. but if you support some kind of anarchist system, then we're all on the same side.

money. cheaper to send industry to 3rd world nations, and cheaper to let illegals work at the remaining industrial sites in the US, especially if the US doesn't want tensions with one of its very few allies (mexico).neither of these is necessarily bad. computer use in business has increased demand for thinking and mental work, rather than physical work, hence the other reason for the decrease in industry. things change.

Well just answer me two queations: Why was the U.S. De-industrialized, and why do they refuse to secure our borders.

Nassim, I agree totally, all the events of the last 30 years could not have been an accident. It had to be a carefully contrived long range plan.

evidence. where's the hard evidence. and i'm not talking about some generic document that some generic no-name person found at some unknown location, that states that theres a big conspiracy going on. to put it simply: why should I believe you? everyone's a sheep no matter what they do, and thinking independently doesn't always bring the same conclusions. there's got to be a good reason that I should trust you or anyone else.

The great nation that is the United States of America, is being dismantled and destroyed since 1913. It has only been highly visible in the past 8 years.Just research the CARBON TAX and You'll know their final step in destroying 2.4 million American jobs per year, and costing the economy 2 trillion dollars annually. In a 7 trillion dollar economy that is quite a death sentence.Watch "Fall of the Republic", "Zeigeist", "Obama Deception", "Zeigeist: Addendum", "Freedom to Fascism".

Chomsky can't explain one lick of it. Why would a country destroy itself? Seems illogical doesn't it? Because it is.Those who study international banking interests like the Rothschild's who control the Bank of England as well as "Federal Reserve"(since 1913) which are private entities will find the reason why.How can they make a NWO with one government, one currency, one RFID chipped society if there is a beacon of liberty not to mention a global superpower, U.S.A..Must sabotage it first.

You're absolutely right, don't THINK independently, now go back to bed . . . For those enlightened individuals who own themselves, who's paradigms and perceptions are their own, please proceed with Your eternal individual nature.As for those who think that 40 years of research of liberated minds like Jordan Maxwell, Manly Palmer Hall, Zacharia Sitchin, David Icke, Bob Dean not to mention thousands of others who are and aren't still with us today is pure humbug, are willful slaves of power.