Christmas Shopping

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Fri Nov 22 06:46:31 PST 2002


Chuck:
> > I read this list and laughed as I realized that many of the
> > poorer people I serve (doing wheelchair repairs) follow this
> > hide out prescription as a matter of course---because of
> > poverty. So you can see that poverty is a quasi-criminal
> > demi-terrorist status a priori.

Wojtek Sokolowski:
> That is a very efective weapon against the corporate state. Most of
> their social control mechanisms depend on you voluntarily submit the
> whip with which they can flog you (e.g. info on your assets they can
> garnish, your driving privilege they can withdraw, etc.). If you do not
> do that, as many people in my hood do, they do not have too many means
> to punish you to force compliance.

Hence the utility of the Bismarckian Welfare State. I am wondering whether the ruling class will now attempt to reverse the trend toward letting the poor fend for themselves, given that they are then less easy to observe and control.

-- Gordon



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