…helping others or even humanity as a whole more than or as an inherent part of their individual accomplishments. On PJM, the meme is that people do this only to gain power over others…
Eh wot ?
Frankly, I think a lot of folks here spin their wheels griping about loss of individual rights, when actually there are probably more choices open to people now than ever before…
Frankly, our current version of a federal government is all about assaulting individual liberties (Obama’s “negative” liberties) in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, those embedded values that thwart said government’s power grab.
Frankly, if “choices” means choosing from a wide array of Chinese manufactured crap at Wal-Mart or which ipad or iphone to acquire (or even which pre-fabricated cruise to take), all that hardly means much in comparison to human freedom.
Huxley’s mechanized subjects in Brave New World had copious “choices”, but there existed a very bright line at which choices stopped, cold turkey.
That line is the totalitarian’s wet dream.
