http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0306/S00001.htm
Most workers don't even think of themselves as being part of a class and of those who do, most of them don't want or work towards creating a classless, democratic society. Most workers don't want to change the social system which they live under. Most workers want to *conserve* capitalism in some way, shape or form. Some do want to rename wage-slavery 'socialism', but they are in the minority.
On the other hand, one can say that most proles are ignorant about how the wages system actually works to deprive them of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. You can tell them; but for the most part, you run into TINA type brainwashing.
"Washington once told a visiting Englishman that slavery was neither a crime nor an absurdity, noting that the U.S. government did not assure liberty to madmen. 'Until the mind of the slave has been educated to understand freedom, the gift of freedom would only assure its abuse,' Washington explained."
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/slavery/inside.html
As Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) said, "Be happy in your work."
It'll take an existential crisis of major proportion to get us out of the trees and on to the ground where the fruit has fallen. Perhaps global warming will do it. By then, of course, it may be too late to find anything but bitter fruit.
Regards, Mike B)
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Albert Einstein
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