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What is the New World Order?
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mostlycheerful wrote: »In a nutshell, the strong and clever grab the land and resources and murder anyone else who is a threat and a contender for taking it off them.
Then enslave everyone else and suppress or if necessary murder any dissent arising.
Then the rulers’ descendants and the strong and clever people perpetuate the system and the status quo ad infinitum.
So one or two percent of the population own and control the planet and the rest of us are slaves to them.
Money’s just a more efficient way of bartering and valuing stuff and moving power and resources around and exploiting slaves.
It’s not particularly mysterious or requiring much explanation or understanding. All pretty obvious really.
And that's it.
And how do you feel about being a slave, mostlycheerful?0 -
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I do very well thank you. Can't complain.
If this is life as a slave, bring it on, I say.0 -
Yes, it's ok, it'll do. In fact it's quite nice at times, actually.I do very well thank you. Can't complain.
If this is life as a slave, bring it on, I say.
Luckily I'm not being shot at, well, not just at the moment.
And I just go for a nice leisurely stroll and then hand over a bit of paper and a few bits of small round pieces of metal or stick a bit of plastic in a hole and key in some numbers and then, hey presto, as if by magic, I can get any amount of food I want.
Lots of choice and variety, fairly high quality, well, a fair bit better than I could catch with my bare hands or scrape out of the ground with my finger tips if I had to go out hunting and gathering myself.
Yep, it'll do me. Fine.
Ta, ruling elite, ta rich greedy bu88ers. Ta murdering genocidal alpha males, it's all lovely in the garden, well done, ta muchly.0 -
You forgot to thank the Illuminati and the Reptilians for enabling all this to happen too, mostly cheerful.
It didnt all happen by accident, you fool!0 -
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The thing I don't get about these theories is that what is the incentive to enslave the world.
To be honest, if anyone is as rich as the likes of Nate Rothschild and doesn't spend all their time and money on champagne, yachts, and women; and instead spends their time in shadowy rooms with balding men working out how to manipulate markets in their favour, then I pity them more than anything.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
Well, yes, but once you've got vast riches you have to hold on to them and sustain them and increase them, don't you, otherwise every other bleeder would rob you blind, wouldn't they.The thing I don't get about these theories is that what is the incentive to enslave the world.
To be honest, if anyone is as rich as the likes of Nate Rothschild and doesn't spend all their time and money on champagne, yachts, and women; and instead spends their time in shadowy rooms with balding men working out how to manipulate markets in their favour, then I pity them more than anything.
Plus getting together with other like minds and raising up a few wars here and there and bringing down a few kings and governments from time to time must be good fun. And you can generally make money off it whenever you stir it up and get the plebs on the run. Especially if you sell arms and oil to both sides at the same time. What larks. And we don't want the slaves getting too fat and complacent, now do we. It's not good for business, is it.
It's something to do, isn't it. Passes the time. Makes a change from just sitting in the palace or floating about on the yacht. There's a limit to how much champers and caviar you can guzzle every day. At a certain point a man wants to do a bit of slaughter. Gets the old grey matter working for a bit. Keeps you feeling young and alive. I only feel truly creative when I'm destroying, and all that.0 -
The thing I don't get about these theories is that what is the incentive to enslave the world.
To be honest, if anyone is as rich as the likes of Nate Rothschild and doesn't spend all their time and money on champagne, yachts, and women; and instead spends their time in shadowy rooms with balding men working out how to manipulate markets in their favour, then I pity them more than anything.
You obviously haven't watched "Wake up call" have you?! This is covered early on and fully supported with as much evidence as the rest of the film. It is also explained in a dramatic voice for greater effect. Apparently, once you have all the money in the world and can do anything, the only thing left is power. And after some power apparently that leads to wanting more power and to control everything and everyone. Hence slavery. Simples.0 -
No, slavery started with the first alpha male bashing a beta male. And it's been going on ever since, actually. Doh. And no, there's plenty of rich powerful people who don't particularly want or need much or any more. Plenty of intelligent powerful successful people are very contented with what they've got, actually. And devote themselves to occupying their brains, doing more work in their chosen fields, and enjoying themselves, spending time with their families, doing research and science and charity and writing books and travelling and setting up schools and foundations and such like. Actually. Evidently you've never met anyone who's not on the dole and hasn't got two pennies to rub together and so all you can do is recycle crass populist misconceptions and fantasies about what being rich and powerful is all about. So there.Procrastinator333 wrote: »You obviously haven't watched "Wake up call" have you?! This is covered early on and fully supported with as much evidence as the rest of the film. It is also explained in a dramatic voice for greater effect. Apparently, once you have all the money in the world and can do anything, the only thing left is power. And after some power apparently that leads to wanting more power and to control everything and everyone. Hence slavery. Simples.0
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