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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a lower middle class kid (working class on the edge of poor) I was able to work the system well enough to sneak into the best universities in the US. I note this here, not as boasting, but affirming to you that, I have been to the place where the Nobel laureates live, and I was not impressed. I went to the places where prestige, privilege, and power reside.

I didn't like it. Something was seriously amiss, that educated people could function within the institutions of higher learning, while holding lower ethics, while acting "as if' the fictitious world on the inside were enough to deny the abuses of power outside. The systems of domination and control are maintained by the very people who claim freedom of thought and action. The system is maintained, not with sticks, but with the carrots of social and monetary capital.

The modern capitalist nation-state is maintained by a grand Faustian bargain, from the inside of the doctrinal system, and by violence of the physical variety for those on the outside.

I started out, as a child, on the outside. I manipulated my way into the inside, and I have ostracized myself back outside.

Outside is the only honorable place to b
It has been my good fortune to meet my brothers and sisters on the outside, inside the universal community of cooperation, compassion and dignity.[/quote]

Well aren’t you a man of the people!! [/quote]

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